Lanstar
The Cutest of Ladies
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The 3DS' situations was also different as it was a major increase in price over the DS and didn't have a lot of games its first year. There's no real need to do the same for the Switch since it's console scale hardware that's more worth the price and it has a much stronger first year lineup. At best I could see them dropping it to $250, maybe having a $200 budget model, but I can't see it dropping nearly as much.
That's a good point - and yet there's even more to it than that: Before the switch reveal, I remember the heads of Nintendo saying that unlike their other consoles, like the Wii U, they wanted to make sure they sold their newest one for an actual profit at launch. The fact that they are doing it at a price like this is quite amazing in my eyes.
Who knows, though: So to sell Pokemon for the switch, they could pull a '2DS situation' with the switch - where they market the games to children by making a budget model targeted to them... Not that I'd mind that! ^.^