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

[PAOerfulone]

XtremeBG said:

So .. with the recent price hike of the one of the current gen systems, and very likely the Switch 2 soon, Switch 1 will be the most affordable system by a long shot. At just 230$ for the Lite or just 340$ for the OG model, this might be enough to prolong it sales .. for how long however? The Switch 2 price will most likely go up if not by 100$, then surely by at least 70$. So the cheapest gaming system above the Switch 1 will be close to 200$ more, and if you look at handhelds, then around 300$ more, which is big. And even if you compare the OG model instead of the Lite, the difference will again be a whopping 200$.

I wouldn’t be so sure about the Switch 2 price going up so soon.It’ll still be a while before we see it. And when/if it does happen, it’ll just a modest $50. And they’ll introduce the Lite model for around $400 to help mitigate that. 

Nintendo is in a totally different position from Sony and Microsoft in that the Switch 2 is just getting started while the other systems are on the way out. Sony/Microsoft are not nearly as concerned about hardware sales because they’ve pretty much already sold through as much hardware as they’re going to sell and their main focus/priority is now trying to sell software to the install base they’ve built. Any additional hardware sales is a bonus at this stage.

Nintendo, on the other hand, are trying to sell as many Switch 2s and build up that system’s install base as fast as humanly possible - Now and for the foreseeable future. So a price hike would be more counterproductive and damaging for them than for Sony/Microsoft. That’s why only the Switch 1 and the accessories for both systems got the price hike last year. Because the accessories are not nearly as essential as the console itself and the Switch 1 is on its very last leg. It makes more sense to squeeze as much profits as possible out of those systems than Switch 2. They’ll more likely eat the additional costs for Switch 2 and hope to make that money back on software, NSO subscriptions, and other ventures (the Mario Galaxy movie, theme parks, etc.)

Like I said, we probably won’t see them touch Switch 2’s price until the install base is much larger than now and they’re about to launch the Lite model to mitigate it. But there’s a chance that by then, the bubble will have (hopefully) popped and the outrageous prices will start cratering back down to more reasonable levels and they’ll just leave Switch 2’s price alone and launch the Switch 2 Lite in that $300-350 range.

Last edited by PAOerfulone - 2 days ago