The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

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Sagemode87 said:

javi741 said:

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

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. 

Accounting for inflation doesn't change anything here.

DS to 3DS price comparisons in August 2011 were DS Lite ($99), DSi ($149), DSi XL ($169), 3DS ($169). That's a setup that creates an immense disadvantage for the old generation, hence why DS sales dropped so steeply in 2011. It's a recurring event in this thread that eldanielfire doesn't want to acknowledge this.

Switch to Switch 2 price comparisons are Switch Lite ($199), Switch ($299 with a pack-in), OLED ($349), Switch 2 ($449). That's a setup that threatens the OLED model, but not the other two Switch SKUs which are significantly cheaper.

End of life sales see a higher concentration of sales that go to parents of kids who get their first console. $199 for the Switch Lite is a much better offering than $449 for a Switch 2, because there's also the consideration that kids break things. Talks about saturation are all fine and good, but at the same time there are a lot of new kids born every year, so we are looking at sales to people who weren't even alive when Switch launched in 2017. The only thing you address in your post are people who are looking to buy the best Switch possible, so of course your take falls flat on its face in no time.