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curl-6 on 03 April 2021
kazuyamishima said:
eva01beserk said:

Sure Nintendo games is the main reason the NS sells. But there's a part third party plays on it. While I agree that it wont die cuz new gen is firing up by then some slow down will occur. Could be minimal if some great games launch. 

It’s more about saturation than anything, just like every console there is a maximum to be sold. Even with price cuts. New revisions can increase sales a little bit, but is not like keep releasing new games over and over will keep the system selling forever.

Also, Bigger games from the same studio tend to reward a few years apart. One of the main advantages about the switch is that Nintendo was able to re-release WiiU games on the switch and squeeze a lot of sales. 

And nowadays, the price of the switch is cheap. 

The Switch is a long, long way from saturation because unlike a dedicated console, (for the most part) it has the power of selling multiple units to the same household.



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eva01beserk on 03 April 2021

Sure does need a price cut.



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curl-6 on 03 April 2021
eva01beserk said:

Sure does need a price cut.

They can't even keep up with demand at the current price.



kirby007 on 03 April 2021

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Spindel on 03 April 2021
curl-6 said:
eva01beserk said:

Sure does need a price cut.

They can't even keep up with demand at the current price.

There is a reason people on internet gaming forums hang on internet gaming forums and aren’t CEOs or board members of gaming companies (or any multi billion companies for that matter).

Just the number of ”x console should get a price cut” or ”nintendo never discount their games BWHAA!” post are compleatley disconected from reality. Yeah you can sell 10 million games and make a $1 profit per sale or you sell 1 million games and make $30 profit per sale. At least to me there is a clear decision that is better from a buisiness standpoint.



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Otter on 03 April 2021
Spindel said:
curl-6 said:

They can't even keep up with demand at the current price.

There is a reason people on internet gaming forums hang on internet gaming forums and aren’t CEOs or board members of gaming companies (or any multi billion companies for that matter).

Just the number of ”x console should get a price cut” or ”nintendo never discount their games BWHAA!” post are compleatley disconected from reality. Yeah you can sell 10 million games and make a $1 profit per sale or you sell 1 million games and make $30 profit per sale. At least to me there is a clear decision that is better from a buisiness standpoint.

This is not like the other one. People don't complain about Nintendo game prices from a business standpoint, more from a consumer one. And the business pros and cons to game price cuts are a bit more nuance. But for sure anyone asking for a Switch price cut right now hasn't understood why companies cut hardware prices lol



Doctor_MG on 03 April 2021
HigHurtenflurst said:

I think it might happen in May, 10 more weeks would be the week ending 29th May, Switch has 4.1m to go so if it averages over 410k per week it should do it then.
It will likely pass the PS3 in June (or if not then first week in July)

I don't think it can catch the Wii before December though unless a new hardware revision drops in time.... So it should be December to see it overtake Wii & PS1.

Switch is selling 400k average every week. Multiply that by 52 and you hit 20.8M. This number doesn't include the holiday boost or any game boosts that WILL happen. Switch only needs 22M official to outsell the Wii. It is DEFINITELY going to happen this year. 



lightbleeder on 03 April 2021

There's also a huge factor why the PS2 sold as much as it did, I don't know if anyone mentioned it already, but it was piracy, the PS2 was a relatively easy console for running pirate games, and since that was the last Sony console without an online service, there wasn't any issue with running pirate games and getting your console banned from online games or updates. A lot of my friends bought the PS2 just because they could buy cheap pirate games



Sogreblute on 03 April 2021

To be honest I'm disappointed in Sony for the lack of PS4 support. Like out of the big three Sony would have the best console longevity even when the successor of their next console is out. Now it looks like the PS4 will barely sell 5 million after the PS5 launch.
I know they still have software coming and a lot of indie/3rd party software too, but this has to be the weakest PS console sales wise after the launch of it's successor.



HigHurtenflurst on 03 April 2021
Doctor_MG said:
HigHurtenflurst said:

I think it might happen in May, 10 more weeks would be the week ending 29th May, Switch has 4.1m to go so if it averages over 410k per week it should do it then.
It will likely pass the PS3 in June (or if not then first week in July)

I don't think it can catch the Wii before December though unless a new hardware revision drops in time.... So it should be December to see it overtake Wii & PS1.

Switch is selling 400k average every week. Multiply that by 52 and you hit 20.8M. This number doesn't include the holiday boost or any game boosts that WILL happen. Switch only needs 22M official to outsell the Wii. It is DEFINITELY going to happen this year. 

I know... in December as I said.

I was working out if its possible for it to catch the Wii before December, which I dont think it can unless there is a hardware revision in October or earlier (or a price cut, but why would they cut the price if they cant ship enough at the current price)