anyway, this is only till end of september.

Also I looked now, switch has been doing every single week till last week worse than last year, I don't know what gap is reducing ..

it's more like it will begin to reduce the gap from now on if remains at ~300k weekly till end of september.

yep, because in the weeks after may/june switch slowed a little bit last year because of the OLED announcement.

It will go up again in september with 800k+ week (with strong weeks to follow after this) and then the down YOY rate will go up again

I haven't run the numbers but it doesn't look like a huge difference in sales week-on-week yet. I might wait for NPD and the monthly Europe data to come out first to make adjustments to July. Then run numbers on Friday. 

I wonder if a potential price drop of the Switch would boost its sales?

I mean it's on it's 5th year and still basically selling at the same price as at year 1, I don't think many consoles have done that.

The Switch is the first one for Nintendo to do different type of price cut in the face of Switch Lite back in 2019. This was the price cut answer. Cheaper version. Whoever wanted cheaper switch or thought of the original as expensive they got alternative version the Lite which is cheaper. They just didn't choose to do the traditional price cut because it is more profitable for them to produce cut version of the system at cheaper price than to actually lower the price of the base system.

It's the same scheme as the phones, like they launched the Iphone SE or the Galaxy S10 Lite, cheaper cutted versions instead of lowering the original model's price.

And if they for some reason discontinue the Switch Lite now and lower the original Switch's price to 199$ I guarantee you that the boost will be little to none, since there is Switch system at 199$ for 3 years now, and whoever wanted Switch at 199$ already get one, or may get one in the future but not because of the original system getting down to 199$, but because their budget is within 200$ range, and they would've bought the Lite as well.

If the market at large were satisfied with the feature set of the Lite, then the Lite would sell a lot better than it actually does.

The Switch is the first one for Nintendo to do different type of price cut in the face of Switch Lite back in 2019. This was the price cut answer. Cheaper version. Whoever wanted cheaper switch or thought of the original as expensive they got alternative version the Lite which is cheaper. They just didn't choose to do the traditional price cut because it is more profitable for them to produce cut version of the system at cheaper price than to actually lower the price of the base system.

It's the same scheme as the phones, like they launched the Iphone SE or the Galaxy S10 Lite, cheaper cutted versions instead of lowering the original model's price.

And if they for some reason discontinue the Switch Lite now and lower the original Switch's price to 199$ I guarantee you that the boost will be little to none, since there is Switch system at 199$ for 3 years now, and whoever wanted Switch at 199$ already get one, or may get one in the future but not because of the original system getting down to 199$, but because their budget is within 200$ range, and they would've bought the Lite as well.