Sephiran said:
With the news that Nintendo is entering Indonesia, i wonder, is Nintendo going to go with a PS2 era strategy from Sony where they are starting to sell Switch 1 in poorer countries all over the world? Going for that classic expand the console market strategy that were abandoned later by Sony to focus on richer countries with the PS3. Could work, because Switch 1 should actually get cheaper the coming years to produce due to age old components its using (barely even relevant for AI).
Ironically, it was exactly that kind of strategy that led the PS2 to sell 160M+ in the first place, by selling it in poorer countries for years. |
I was thinking much the same.
The PS2 was in production for 13 years. The Switch has been 9 so far. Also it seems the PS2 was selling for years after production stopped. However while the Switch is gettinga European sale, to gte rid of old units which they wouldn't be able to sell them after the EU portable battery law comes in in February 2027, it's likely it won't still have further price drops due to RAM price from the AI bubble, unless Nintendo can source old RAM chips cheaply.
It has around 3.5million sales to make to guarantee that #1 ever sales spot.It'sdoable,but it still depends on how much Nintendo wants it to happen. The late game poor market approach they are doing now is promising.
