I guess the proof would be in the pudding, but can you seriously see a souped up 'Switch 2 Home' costing a fraction of the base console not selling at least 20+ million units? What was that stat that was knocking around a while back about the number of Switch owners playing exclusively docked? Was it not around a third? $450 will give a lot of people pause. $100 / $150 / $200 is much more in the 'why the hell not' territory. |
Souped Up? If they're offering it cheaper it wouldn't be more powerful. I think a slightly cheaper Switch 2 Home would be a somewhat successful option. Even If it would only be around 10% of total Switch 2 sales.
The cost saving would just be removing the screen, battery & speakers and not having a separate dock. If they really wanted to save money they could also pack it with a cheaper controller instead of joycon 2's but I don't think they would want to have Switch 2 owners without Joycons for the few games that will not work with a pro controller.
But manufacturing wise I can't imagine the removal of screen, battery, speakers and separate dock would save them more than around $100. They'd still be charging $350+ for it.
