The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

[SuperJortendo]

Soundwave said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Instead of a revision, I expect a small price cut starting the holidays.

A revision would mean that a new production model would need to sit on the production lines, thus lowering the possible production numbers of it's successor at launch.

Even with just a small price cut, Nintendo could achieve quite a bit of sales considering that the console is still sold at or near launch price around the world. Having the lite at ~$179, the base model at $249 and the OLED at $299 would go a long way to achieve the fiscal year sales they projected.

That would be a significant loss in profit though by cutting the price, I don't think they would want to do that. Missing a fiscal year sales target isn't that big of a deal especially very late in a game system's product cycle. 

It matters a lot in year 1/2 of a game console, if you're blowing sales targets in those years it's generally an indication you're in big trouble, but in year .... 8 ... it's basically gravy. If they can hit that great, if not, no one is going to care that much, investors will be focused on the Switch 2 anyway. 

I think at this point there's more money to make on software sales than they'd lose with a $50 price cut. They'd only need to sell a game per console sold to make it up, and I reckon just about the only people who want a switch and don't have one are the ones waiting for a price cut.