javi741 said:
eldanielfire said:
You are smoking crack if you think the Switch will sell 170 million units. Regardless of the unimpressive price for the Switch 2, that doesn't mean it will translate to people suddenly getting a Switch 1, which will still probably still won't geta price drop and thus won't be seen as cheap. IT's still a significant amount of money, especially given todays wages still not caught up with inflation.Â
The Switch will likely just about crack 160 million+ crawling over hat finish line. The DS sales fell massively when the 3DS was released, regardless of the 3DS being overpriced the DS was only $150 and sale still dropped from 19 million in 2010 to 6.5 million in 2011. Though Nintendo's late game releases are stronger on the Switch, we alreayd know the big tentpoles this year, Metroid Prime and Pokemon Legends Z-A are on both systems.
The Switch currently just doesn't such attractive pricing today to suggest it'll buck a 60% plus drop in sales right now or be cheap enough to be attractive in non-western developing markets yet like the PS2 was. And we have no idea if Nintendo will aggressively chase that potential field like Sony did.
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That isn't very accurate, by July 2011 the 3DS's price dropped to 170$, meaning for nearly half the year of 2011 the 3DS was only 20$ more expensive than the DSI and 70$ more expensive than the DS Lite. The price gap will be noticeably bigger between Switch 1 & 2
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When accounting for inflation, it's pretty much the same. Switch also has way more market saturation than any console before it. I don't see people buying Switch 1 when(basically) for an extra hundred dollars, they can have the future proof console. If price was everything, Series S would've sold faster than PS5. Now if Nintendo drops the price of Switch 1, there's a case to be made.
