The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch (EDIT: See mod note in first post for new rule).

[XtremeBG]

Blood_Tears said:

The Switch lite sku is a price cut, was 100 dollars cheaper when announced and allowed people to get a "Switch" when they couldn't afford the base one. This whole notion that the Switch never received a price cut is absurd and just another reach by the same user as always. So the PS2 record would not have been "cooked" at all and everyone here knows damn well that it WOULDN'T be cooked since the Switch already had a price cut in the form of the Switch Lite which sold over 25M units. 

That is what I've been telling for years. Only because Nintendo didn't do official price cut, doesn't mean it didn't got alternative version of the price cut. Is the Lite cheaper than the original 299$? It is. Can you still play all the Switch 1 library on it ? You can. Therefore you get the same machine that can play the same games for cheaper. That is essentially a price cut. It's like saying PS2 didn't got a price cut with the slim version because you couldn't put a hard drive in it. Yes the Lite is cut version, but again is it cheaper and can it play everything ? it is and it can, therefore it's cheaper version, therefore it had the same impact and the effect a 100$ would had back in late 2019. The second price cut was the inflation itself. 299$ or 199$ back in 2017 or 2019 respectively were and are still a lot less than what they were back then.

Last edited by XtremeBG - on 30 December 2025