nothing makes the product look commercially strong and makes your early adopters feel good about their purchase like a significant price drop early in the products lifecycle...

Honestly if "they'll cut it at some point" means we shouldn't be concerned about the high price now why don't we take that to it's logical conclusion?  Put the price at 600 dollars with a 100 dollar price cut at random averaging out to a cut every 2 months.  That way you can get all the money from the crazy NIntendo fans that'll buy it at any cost.  For everyone else it'll be cut before long so what's the issue?

I think the reason might be they want Nintendo fans to bank for it because of Zelda, and then have a price cut for holidays. I feel robbed though, because I'm certain the console doesn't cost that much.

Nope. The high price of the Switch will everyone to buy the other way cheaper console that also plays the latest Nintendo games and is a hybrid. That will show em.

Usually, Early adopters are early adopters because they are the affluent consumers

For instance,IF I could afford the wii u, I would have already had one since its first months on the market!

Agreed. The 3DS price drop was never part of the equation. Nintendo needed to cut the price to stay afloat. It was more an act of desperation.

Have you seen the price of the Pro controller? and the Joy controllers?

I fear nintendo might have done the same mistake, spent too much on the gimmick/controller.

Well, they can call the Switch-consoles sold before the price cut "founder's edition"... don't forget that it is Nvidia hardware ;)

PlayStation 3 and XB1 being $599 at launch didn't matter because it dropped later. People who whined back then were exaggerating.

I notee in the op that I'm fearing of the manufacturing cost of these things...

High price doesn't always mean high manufacturing cost though!

I-phone costs 199-220$ to be made and apples sells it for more than 700$!

Wii costed 99$ and Nintendo sold it for 250$!