Nintendo Not Considering Successor or Price Cut to Switch - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 June 2019 / 4,028 Views
Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa in an interview with The Sankei News was asked about Nintendo's forecast of shipping 20 million Switch units in the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2019. Furukawa said it was an "ambitious" goal that the company still maintains.
He added that Nintendo currently has no plans for a successor or a price cut to the Nintendo Switch.
"It is an extremely ambitious, but worthwhile achievement," said Furukawa. "So, we will maintain this goal. Nintendo Switch is our primary sales objective, and we are not considering a successor or a price cut at this time."
The Nintendo Switch launched in March 2017 for $299 and has not received a price cut.
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And what else he supposed to say? "Yes, the successor is coming soon and we're preparing massive price cut for the current SKU. So if you're planning to purchase the Switch, it'd be wise to wait." I would put that statement somewhere between "The DS will not replace the Gameboy Advance" and "There are no plans to release Majora's Mask 3DS".
Think the most recent example of this happening was with the X1X being revealed so far before it would launch, really took what little wind there was out of the X1's sales since if people went to buy it they knew that a hardware upgrade was in the works.
The system is nearly 2 years old. I think a price drop is reasonable at this point.
The Switch isn't even 2 years old yet. Why would a successor even be in question?
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Nintendo: "The Switch does not replace Wii U." Uh, yeah.
Cool, but Im not buying a Switch until I get some free games with it. Preferably not something I played on Wii U already.
Paladins and Fortnite are free, neither were on the WiiU, Don't think there was a WiiU port of Warframe either, could be wrong though.
Eh... not really looking for F2P games I already ignore on X1 and PS4.
My Wii U came with Smash Bros and Splatoon for $249. That's a deal I couldn't resist!
You mean bundled games then, not free games, paying $249 at least a year after 3rd party support outwardly said they were no longer supporting the system was not a good deal regardless of packing in 2 of the systems games.
I'm basing on that Smash launch date being towards the end of 2014 and EA and others reportedly reducing support for the system in May 2013.
Of course he's going to say that. Why would he want to reveal plans that big right now?! Also note he said, "at this time". That doesn't mean there won't be a price cut and/or a successor. He just wants the focus on the Switch at the moment. A price cut would be too early to right now. It's only going on it's 2nd year.
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