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Pemalite said:

You didn't explain why it's more expensive though. Clickbait title?

I think that it is more expensive to give incentive to sell all the stock of the previous versions, making the OLED and Lite the only two available in due time.  The price can then be dropped to 300 when the time comes and it will be labeled as a price cut.

Unless of course it sells at 350 over the years like the base model already is at 300...in which case 350 will stay till sales drop.  Not my preferred business strategy as a consumer, but it is a logical one for Nintendo.



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VAMatt said:

Setting the price is one of the most important parts of marketing any product. The price is higher because they want it to seem like a premium product.

Great comment! 

Call me crazy, but I don’t Care if there is never a true “pro” Switch, I would just as soon get brand-new hardware.



Quake brought to my attention that the LCD panels of the OG models could be in supply shortage, hence the Switch to OLED.
This higher price model would motivate people to buy up the OG stocks... although not much help is needed in that respect.
You'd expect the Lite model to follow with a similar revision sometime in the future.

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TomaTito said:

EDIT: Hmmm, what is this lower vent for???

Enough space to store games there.

You would store your games in those vents? Hey, they might even fit



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