| newwil7l said: Even if it doesn't I think it's more impressive regardless. Both PS2 and DS were heavily discounted at the end of their lives. Switch is still full price. |
Strictly speaking and being pedantically correct, keeping the same price over a long time is technically a discount given inflation. However yes, your point is still 100% valid. Switch sold itself with all its flaws (such as online, "Nintendo Tax", Joy-con drift, etc) despite any real major effort to sustain sales other than releasing big games and standard marketing.
I wonder how much in a hurry they are to replace it? They still hold all the cards to boost sales a tad bit more (Nintendo Selects? Price cut? Heavier bundles like a couple of major games and/or some months of free online?) and eventually market the next console as "the successor to the most sold console of all time". Of course, that would mean the bragging rights means to them more than the money they may lose with the discounts or by withholding the release of the Switch 2 (unless they estimate discounting the current Switch and its games would make the sales go up enough to compensate). They are a business after all and only money decides.
