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| tak13 said: Ram cost has raised though, we can't estimate how much does it cost to produce the lite form. |
Keep in mind that console manufacturers tend to have negotiated contracts on RAM and NAND prices with suppliers for set volumes.
For example... AMD and nVidia have contracted prices for processors in chunks of 10~ million units.
It's when they need to renegotiate the next contract that they will get stung with higher prices... Console manufacturers don't tend to follow commodity memory prices, which is both a good and bad thing... Because prices are higher when the price drops out of those components, but they also remain cheaper when prices increase.
Plus they get bulk discounts.
Plus considering the Switch 1 only has a fraction of the RAM/NAND compared to Switch 2, it's going to have a massive price advantage in the current market.
| PAOerfulone said: Only way I see it happening is if the rising costs of RAM and other components + tariffs force Nintendo to raise the price of Switch 2 to the point where it’s too expensive to appeal to the casual market and thus it’s not able to reach that next rung/level of sales, so they keep Switch 1 around that much longer out of necessity. So that they can still have an entry level system that appeals to the newer casual market and younger parents looking for a system to buy for their kids and thus maintain their revenue and profit forecasts (to a degree) despite Switch 2’s momentum slowing down. |
I think Nintendo would be stupid to discontinue the Switch 1 during 2026 with the surging price of NAND and RAM.
4GB Ram+32GB/64GB NAND is much much much cheaper than 12GB Ram+256GB NAND... And considering how good the OLED panel is on the Switch OLED, I hope it keeps getting new games for the next year or two.
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