Slownenberg said:
Absolutely. Unfortunately Nintendo has shown no desire to do such things. Nintendo often makes bizarre decisions. I think if they were gonna do stuff like HW price cuts and Nintendo Selects, they would have already as sales have slowed a lot last year and this year outside of the like 3 month Mario movie / TotK boost. Most likely Switch hardware sales are gonna drop to barely anything when S2 releases, and I doubt Nintendo will be making anything for the Switch from that point onward, unless they just have a late game or two that go cross gen. I could see some old ports hit both Switch and the successor, like say if they finally bring us Prime 2 and 3, or WW and TP, but other than that I don't expect Nintendo to do anything to keep pushing Switch HW or SW sales. More likely than not their strategy is going to be no strategy. Just let Switch die out quickly due to cost similarity with the successor, take whatever software revenue they can keep getting from Switch with no effort, and do nothing to go after more sales from the Switch audience. |
This isn't exactly concording with their statements on the matter. With the inflation of the last years, the actual fact the Switch hasn't gone up in price could be considered a "price cut" in itself and not withstanding that their main strategy is using the added value of bundled software to drive the hardware sales.
Now is the strategy paying the dividends they expected without having to hurt or discounting too much of their software or base console price permanently just so they could get a quick boost ? Don't know, that's for them to answer after the fiscal quarter is over.
Considering how their software deals during the big holiday sales are panning usually while still keeping a relatively good price. I think their current strategy is suiting them well. Otherwise, they'd have made a change by now.
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