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The price of the Switch & New Switch
- Thread starter PenultimateFantasy
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What is the evidence that it cut off the tail? That's what I'm asking.
What is the evidence that it didn't?
What we do know is that Nintendo released a new, drastically redesigned edition of the system, and the hardware sales plummeted.
At the same time Wii game sales still demonstrated that long tail, with Mario Kart Wii and the Just Dance games in particular continuing to do sustained crazy sales numbers when there was none of the hardware sales to boost those game sales.
It's not hard to point at the Wii Mini and figure that something went terribly wrong.
Possibly. I think the Switch may now be the highest selling console to have not received a price cut.
Yeah, my hope is them dropping the Lite and Regular Switch prices and making the Pro $300.
Switch Lite $150, regular Switch $200-250, Pro Switch $300-350.
Still not sure a Pro Switch will actually happen this year, especially with COVID, but that's my hope.
Switch Lite $150, regular Switch $200-250, Pro Switch $300-350.
Still not sure a Pro Switch will actually happen this year, especially with COVID, but that's my hope.
Wait, I just realized the Switch has never had a price drop. Wtf.
Switch will drop to $250. Switch Pro will be $350.
Terrible.
It's too soon for a fully new console, and these half-step iterations were a tired idea last gen.
There is no point to a minor upgrade; what so you can play Hyrule Warriors: Age of Chromatica with a few extra frames per second and Witcher 3 runs at 300p instead of 280p?
It's too soon for a fully new console, and these half-step iterations were a tired idea last gen.
There is no point to a minor upgrade; what so you can play Hyrule Warriors: Age of Chromatica with a few extra frames per second and Witcher 3 runs at 300p instead of 280p?
That's not how this works.
Continued to plummet, on the trajectory they already were. It simply made no difference.
Unless you're suggesting that sales did not plummet in Japan, where this never released, I just don't understand the argument. The fact that sales did not stop going down after the mini released does not mean the mini made the sales go down.
That's why they're upgrades are optional - no one is forced to upgrade and the other versions are not leaving the market.
And yes there are plenty of people interested in a more powerful Switch.
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Yeah the rrp of the 3DS when they discontinued it was still £189 or something so you're probably right