tak13 said:
What do you mean exactly...? |
Of course you meant commercial success and I don't understand if you give a damn about financial success...
Nintendo won't touch anything if manufacturing cost doesn't allow it... It's estimated to be at 249$, they only thing Nintendo could do is to sell it at the manufacturing cost but I'm sure Nintendo prefers to make profit on hardware, they make more money on it than on software except from the final year of wii u...
Let switch with the pricey coveted accessories sell like gc hardware and software wise, you will be saying go third party Nintendo, when you're not even knowledge if they can match the profits by selling only software on xbox/playstation and how much they need to sell to match them...
Let me do a calculation, 50$ profit on each console sold x 20m=1B 15$ on every first party software copy sold, 100m first party software sales ( I'm conservative ) = 1.5B a tally of 2.5B! Count how much software they need to sell on xbox/playstation and the royalties.
You referred to 3DS price story, but it was the first time that Nintendo lost money in their history and if they could avoided they would...
Nintendo overshipped a handheld console of 249$, it was selling so much under expectations that they had to slash the price and lose money owing to 3D effect royalties ( not to a extend to be considered damaging though )... They ( rushed ) released 3DS XL at 199$ in July of the next year to make the hardware profitable again.
Although, while wii u price was never cut ( because of you costly tablet controller ), it still lost money ( for two years ) by being overshipped ( and overproduced ) , specifically the undesired white 8gb version ( 299$ ), they discontinued in mid 2013 and sold the black one with the quadruple memory capacity for 299$ ( from 349 $ ), they underwent the cost of the clearance! Nintendo in a investor meeting stated that they took a lesson from 3DS and won't lose money again on hardware, thus they never really reduced the price of wii u and they focused on pushing it with software ( unfortunately, not as much as they should ) !
Lastly, Switch situation is the exact opposite, normal shipments and selling out! Also switch is a 299$ hybrid! it will sell decently ( I'm being cautious ) to handheld gamers that are interested in home gaming on tv ( they had to expend 500$+ for a 3ds and wii u ) and home console players that want to keep playing what they were playing on their tv lying on the sofa anywhere inside/outside their house and soever, switch inital price is 100$ less than kinectless xb1 and PS4 price on par and close to previous console prices, so it seems cheap as home console.
The only problem is the exclusively handheld console players, they have to spend 299$ for switch and 60$ for MK8D when they had to pay 169-199$ for 3DS and 39$ for Mario kart ( 3ds was suffering at 249$ ) and I don't know if switch superiority over 3ds is enough for them to justify the purchase at that price! Also, even if switch price can drop as manufacturing cost lessens, then there is the issue of portability and durability of switch on mishandling by kids.
Nevertheless, there is solution, switch lite/mini.
