Some people say it’s not the best idea to get a new Nintendo console on launch date or just gaming hardware in general. They say the machines can be faulty, or that there isn’t anything worht playing yet, costs among other stuff. But I can assure you this is not the best take, and it is in your best financial and benefits in general to get your shiny new hardware on launch day. It’ll especially be focused on Nitnendo console but some of these could be applied to Playstation or I don’t know who the hell knows.
While Gen 1 hardware can indeed be faulty because they have yet to figure it out completely and they’re prone to making some mistakes. But I feel that’s overstated, what percentage of launch units are actually faulty? Having owned launch units from the Nintendo 64 era up to now I have never had any issues with any Nintendo hardware, this is including handhelds. I’d say the chances of getting a faulty unit is miniscule and just bad luck.
What about games? Well of course there aren’t going to be tons of games available, but at least for nintendo consoles you buy the console for Nintendo games and more often than not, their new hardware launches with either a killer app that changes the industry or in the worst case scenario just a great game and this is including some of their worst launches, you still had great Nintendo exclusive games before the genre defining ones came later. Wii U and 3DS got amazing games eventually.
I’ll way for a price drop? Well you might be waiting a long while, as Nintendo doesn’t like to drop the price. Outside of the two examples (which you at least got ambassador’d) you had to wait a while and nowadays Nintendo doesn’t seem as big on price drops on consoles as we’ve seen with their behaviour the last couple of years.
You prefer to pay for the redesign? The classic version of the console is always the most iconic one, redesigns can be good but I don’t know if they’re worth waiting for and missing out on games. Being a Day 1 early adopter for Nintendo has always proven to be the best choice. If you end up diving the cost of the console over the amount of years that you’ll play. You’ll realize that even if you end up saving some money a year or two later, it might not have been worth it. Not to mention that new consoles don’t come out every year.