You can thank all the AI Tech Bros for this. I really hate to see this. The sooner we get rid of billionaires ruining the world, the better.

Sadly saw this coming. Best to get one now because this is the only time in history where waiting for a console to get cheaper is actually the wrong move.

Wow. I really did not think they’d do this, and I’m glad I’ve got mine. This does not bode well, I’m sorry to say. I’ve been gaming since the BBC Micro, Commodore 64, but this may well be the last generation for me. I don’t wanna be over dramatic but we’re at a tipping point, and I’ll get as much out of the Switch family of systems as I can, because I think I’m out after that.

I can’t say I’m surprised by this. I’m happy I got in on the system when I did, and there’s still a little time for others to buy it before the price increase, but yeah, this was inevitable.

I will say, though, that I thought the increase was going to be worse.

You didn't talk about their financials. They did have them too. Lol

I'm happy to see that Nintendo has finally addressed the criticism and started lowering the price of the Switch 2, especially in a time where companies are raising prices!

Although, a price decrease by negative fifty dollars does seem a bit strange...

"So there you have it!"

That flipping exclamation mark in this story, man. Like this is something to get excited about.

Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The 36% price increase for Switch Lite in Japan is brutal. I hoped for cheaper Switch Lites to further strengthen the Switch ecosystem, as the kids‘ first video game system.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see discounts in the near future.

Edit: And the Japan-only Switch 2 was too cheap from the beginning.

Hate to say it but yep, that’s why I bought at launch.

Granted I didn’t expect logistics to take a kick to the face.

Need to go track down the meeting notes. Curious about a few financial items. I am mostly hoping employment remains steady.

All the turmoil is making me think I should get an analogue 3D and JPN PS2 sooner than later though. Make sure my retro systems are in good shape.

@AlonditeFE As Nintendo Fans we should all be excited to contribute to Nintendo's bottom line.

I'm just wondering if they have a patreon or something so they can take more.

@AlonditeFE That's just our dry British sarcasm lol

Sad to see, but not surprising considering the current economic landscape + cost increases.

Doesn’t seem to be quite as drastic as Sony’s recent bumps though? In EU we are looking at S2 increase of 30 Euros, so approx ~6% hit

Only 6% in Europe while 11% in the US… Sort of pleasantly surprised it not being larger in Europe but rough in Japan.

Japan

• Switch 2 (Japan only model): +20.0%
• Switch OLED: +26.3%
• Switch: +33.4%
• Switch Lite: +36.4%

United States

• Switch 2: +11.1%

Canada

• Switch 2: +7.9%

Europe

• Switch 2: +6.4%

Edit: Seems UK is untouched and Japan for the region free model as well. (Got it from the comments of you lovely people )

@Aerona So there you have it! I'll wait until September to buy that extra Switch 2 for my cat! He can wait a few months so that Nintendo can get that extra sweet, sweet fiddy bucks!

@Nintoz Hahaha! My detector is busted again!

Cheers to the orange man and tech bros then.

@Aerona lol, this cracked me up

Am I reading this correctly, there’s really no price rises for UK? Usually we’re the first to be hit with price hikes. I’m certainly not complaining, quite the opposite. Just slightly surreal. I wonder why we’re the exception?

@Aerona "we should all be excited to contribute to nintendo's bottom line"

it took me a second to realize this was a bit and i nearly gagged, that is the worst sentence i've seen this month

Got mine day 1 luckily.
Was expecting this and worse to be honest.
Let's hope they leave game prices alone.

game prices being more reasonable seems to be the tradeoff.

still sucks though. nintendo's got 3 months to announce things and convince people to buy these slabs before then!

All because Nintendo listening to investors not brilliant plan all that does alienated customers

@molkom Thank you, if we don't laugh we'll cry 🥲

At the very least, they could have bundled in Welcome Tour to make it 0.001% less of a sting.

@UpsideDownRowlet Welcome tour is now $19.99, please understand

@Angelus3K Tell that to the PS5, Xbox Series, Legion Go, ROG Ally, Steam Deck....all older tech, all many years old, all gone up in price multiple times.

How dare they.

That's okay - there are so many new experiences to play on the system, it's absolutely still enticing at the price. I mean, there's DK Bonanza, and Pokopia, and... um... probably something... I'll think of it. And hey, how about those graphics! If there's anything I know about Nintendo fans, it's that they say technically impressive graphics are the most important thing and they're happy to pay a premium for them.

It could have been much worse, but maybe they can consider adding a full retail game code to consoles for free more to soften the blow a bit.

If they're concerned about software sales, pick the games that have a Paid DLC option. Now would be a good time for that Mario Kart World DLC to show up for new bundle buyers.

@Pillowpants but you still buy nintendo stuff or a mobile phone.
Sure dude.
The problems are the politicians who blocked the increase of production is met oxide chips.
Eu and china are the ones blocking increase of chips.
Thats why that usk guy is now building factories that can create them faster and cheaper.

US got the expected $50 increase while Europe "only" got a 30€ increase. Not good but not terrible, my fear was a ~$100 increase like what happened to the PS5 last month.

However, Japan is getting screwed - the price of the Switch 2 going up by a whopping ¥10000. Switch 2 is now 2× the price of the Switch 1 back in 2018.

@buxner man, y'all really gotta look things up more. this feels like the sadder version of the ps3 having no games except the sad bit is you saying that like it's true

It was claimed at the launch consoles would only go up in price. So this is expected.

@SwitchplayerJohn

Japan has been getting cheaper since launch and they also still have the lottery system in place I believe, so raising the price there makes sense.

lottery system is only for "multi-language" console. the "Japan Only" console is sold freely at retail unrestricted

@AmplifyMJ although i do agree with you on this, i do have hope that with the evolving technology these days with dlss we may not need the expensive hardware to run AAA games on the next generation of switch, hopefully

I truly miss the times where consoles dropped in price rather than getting more expensive.

I've already got mine, but that Switch Online price hike hurts still. Seems that's Japan only for now but I bet they're gonna make that a global thing down the line.

@AlonditeFE Thank you for waiting until after the price hike to contribute, I hope your cat enjoys 🩷

The easiest way to smooth this over is to take a poorly selling game and bundle it up. Now you’re not technically paying extra and have a game to start you off with,

I miss the days when we said gaming was an amazing entertainment value and not all that affected by inflation!
But here we are, and largely due to the policies of the orange tyrant in the White House, building arches to himself.

Yeah, I understand the hardware-increase even if I don't like it.

The NSO price hike seems less warranted. Not that I use mine all that much anyway. I have a little less than year left and the only exclusive value I've gotten from it was when I had to show proof of it to buy a N64 Switch controller at the Nintendo store in Osaka last year.

So the second the price bump hits European shores, I'm noping out. I love the way it gives easy access to games from yesteryear, but I have most of the interesting ones on offer on actual hardware.

@Cakefish

Am I reading this correctly, there’s really no price rises for UK? Usually we’re the first to be hit with price hikes. I’m certainly not complaining, quite the opposite. Just slightly surreal. I wonder why we’re the exception?

Europe has multiple different currencies. GBP often doesn't get mentioned in this type of announcement. but rest assured the UK is and will always be located within the continent of Europe. so - no, you were not reading into this correctly in thinking it means no price rise for UK. just as there will be increases in other European countries which don't use the Euro.

interested to hear what this: "Usually we’re the first to be hit with price hikes" - is based on?

@Gaijillionaire That's something that would have only ever happened under Reggie's marketing at NOA- given that he actually sat there and argued with the higher-ups from Japan to get games bundled in.

As for the price increase itself, I knew it was probably going to happen one way or another- and it sucks that it did. I got my system at launch because I knew I would want it for the next Xeno game, and I didn't want to worry about tariffs making the price spike. They didn't exactly, and this is seeming to be more of a response to the Billionaires buying parts that don't exist for Datacenters that'll never be built with money that they don't even have... but oh well, we all get to suffer because one group of people get to make all the choices for us and we can do nothing about it!

@whmchrish Tech price hikes hit servers as well. When the biggest tech companies are all scrambling to build new datacentres, it means that the tech running the existing ones are all getting more expensive, making maintenance and expansion pricier than previously. Throw in the increased cost of powering them and it's a bad situation.

@jco83 we got price hikes long before the US on both XSX and PS5.

They bothered to list Canada separately so surely they would list UK separately too if we were impacted also?

Actually I suppose Nintendo having a patreon would be pretty silly. I need to see if they have any volunteering opportunities instead.

@kfflscnt I don't know which planet you live on, but the companies buying up all the chips to create AI data centers are the source cause of the price hike for chips. Not us measly consumers.

@Aerona You're already doing God's work in this thread! Thank you for your reminder to ask myself if I've done enough for Nintendo's bottom line today!

@squiddu-real Calling a Switch 2 a "slab" Is insulting.

@AlonditeFE Ask not what Nintendo can do for you, but what you can do for Nintendo 😔

Thank you America, once again, for voting for end stage capitalism, the orange blob, and that trickle down economy that’s just pooled the cash so it sits more and more with the obscenely wealthy. The rarity of simple electronic commodities isn’t just America’s ‘fault’ but the majority for it falls on them.

And there is no signs whatsoever America is going to change.

So button down the hatches everyone? We’re going back to simpler and harder times when there was less to go around and things were harder to come by and you worked longer and harder to find the money for them.

In Japan the Japan-only Switch 2 is now more expensive than the Japan-only PS5...

Thanks for re-electing that swine USA, he's literally made everything in the world more expensive.

It's worth noting that the Switch 2 was already more expensive in the EU area than in the US, so it makes sense that they raised the dollar price more than the euro price. And though the increase means the price in the US and EU will now be the same amount in our local currencies (500 dollars/euros), the console will still be more expensive in the EU, since the euro is worth more than the dollar.

I know the EU price includes sales taxes while the US price doesn't, but 500 dollars converts to 425 euros, so I think even with taxes Americans will still pay less for the Switch 2.

That moment when an early hardware investment out of pure concern for the local market's prospects ends up paying off in terms of the global one's.😎😅 But indeed, there are many bubbles overdue to burst on fronts from tech to politics. As for NS2 prognosis, the same aforementioned bubbles keep it linked to the general purchasing power in respective market overall. Switch, despite its own price hikes, might end up an ironic priority over its successor as well.

@Hank_Scorpio and the sooner said cheers are locked on these people's wrists, the better.

@HXLXIII it's all slabs and toys until your adult life shifts enough to yank your long enjoyed and taken-for-granted schedules from under your feet. Then it's time to "call Kuz'ma father" (as per a Belarusian folktale) and call the slab a hobbysaver.

No there is no understanding Nintendo are greedy anti consumer

The 9 year old Switch with its even older tech got a price hike before GTA VI...

This is disappointing but hopefully it will make Nintendo make more effort in curating a better first party software library,
A year in and I haven't bought a single first party Nintendo game on the switch 2 other than Mario kart, the best games I would recommend on the system are third party ones such as trails in the sky 1st chapter, persona 3, tales of arise and ys x proud nordics,

We are still missing out on a new fire emblem, zelda, 3d Mario and xenoblade games and also splatoon 4.

@Dee123 I agree with the general sentiment, but the biggest reason for these price hikes in tech is the AI industry buying up pretty much all memory for datacentres.

@Haruki_NLI Here in Northern Europe the XBOX Series X got a brutal price hike to over 1000 euro.

The result? Retailers stopped selling it and the console can no longer be found on the shelves. As who in their right mind would buy a 5+ year old console for 1000 euro, when they can buy the PS5 Pro for almost the same price (1100 euro).

The way things are going, this will not be the last price hike this generation. It might be a long time before we'll see an OLED model, if ever.

Lmfao I can't wait for this industry to crash dude

I JUST received my MKW bundle from Amazon.fr yesterday. Was discounted to 450 Euro. Lucky me.

Too expensive for me, so that's that.

Sadly we all knew it was coming.

@XenobladeKisekiFan agreed but didn’t donkey kong interest you? Superb game!

@Kingy What will you gain if the industry crashes ?

@Angelus3K 4 years old...including miniaturisation and other aspects. It seems you take elements out of context.

@AmplifyMJ
Surprised you didn’t bow out while owning a Commodore 64. 😉

@Elbarbo Better games for lower prices

Gematsu headline had me worried that NSO was going up in price globally, which would make no sense. Thankfully that doesn't seem to be the case.

All the more reason to wait for a better and/or limited edition model.

The Pokopia bundle is slightly tempting in the absence of an actual physical release of the game, but my brother jumped the gun and bought it from the eShop and since got bored with it, so I might just repeatedly borrow his "virtual card" instead.

@Vordus yeah, that's a fair point that I was too knee-jerk myopic to take into consideration.

...and the shareholders win again. I hate this era of Nintendo so much. Iwata would have fought this to the best of his ability.

Guess this was the inevitable trade-off for them backing down from $70-$80 games across the board. And in the grand scheme of things it could be worse.

...At the same time, it's crazy to think so many "market conditions" post-Covid really have been brought on by ignorance or hubris. Like, usually the pain points are a lot more intangible, but we really can draw a through-line between the 'Line Go Up' business culture, a tariff-happy administration (despite all warnings), the AI gold rush (overvalued, unsustainable, and not even really useful), and now a pointless war that has directly impacted fuel prices (which also affects shipping costs).

Surely, we're about due for the pendulum to finally start swinging back?

They are all profiting more.
Same as supermarkets and food.
And petrol.

In 3 months time they will all show great profits.

@Kingy The quality of games won't change at all, they're good enough, sorry if you can't see that. Eventually they will disappear. You told about crashing the industry. You talk like a child dreaming or saying things without analyzing consequences. Sorry if it's rude, I'm not fluent, and dislike unconstructive and non realistic commentaries.

@Jack_Goetz You don't know what would have happen if Iwata was still there, and if his decisions, even sympathic or consumer-friendly, woul have been good for the company and the future of Nintendo. It's not Nintendo the matter, you look for a specific ennemy that does'nt really exists.

In other news : A 10p Freddo is 39p now..

@XenobladeKisekiFan I get that there hasn't been what you are looking for, but Nintendo has had A LOT of success in terms of first-party title sales over the last year (MK World, DK, Pokemon Legends ZA, Pokopia, Tomadachi Life have all been multi-million sellers). So I don't think Nintendo is going to learn anything but to take their time and slow-play things with almost all of their biggest franchises still upcoming.

If Nintendo were desperate for sales, we would be getting a worse version of Wind & Waves this holiday instead of next year.

@AmplifyMJ Thing is, there doesn’t really need to be any more generations. Either the Switch 2, which is considerably less powerful than the PlayStation and Xbox consoles on the market, only the biggest publishers with the biggest budgets have the resources to take full advantage of the hardware.

And those tend to be the least interesting games being released. The most interesting games are by small devs with a small budget, which hardly use a fraction of the available power the Switch 2 has.

Given everything, I'm actually quite pleasantly surprised that the increase in price is so small. With RAM and storage prices going wild, plus all the uncertainty around oil prices, I thought we could see Switch 2 easily at 550€ or even more expensive than that. Not good news overall of course, but it could have been much, much worse.

@Tasuki No, the real-life equivalent of Wario took over the world's largest economy (again) and is driving it into the ground to the detriment of everyone.

Sorry, Wario. That's an unfair comparison.

It’s not too bad though is it? Seems like they were being careful.

Just happy i already got one for myself, but this sucks big time

Hopefully we’ll be treated with some excellent games soon to show the world the system is worth the asking price. So far, I feel that hasn’t really been the case unfortunately.

@SwitchplayerJohn Yeah but people love to complain, Playstation and Xbox are doing the same in the west oddly when there not selling so well.

@Elbarbo Industry crash = forcing tighter budgets = restructuring projects and staff, prioritizing the actual gameplay over superfluous things like graphical fidelity / cinematics.
Fairweather consumers will eventually move on to the next trendy thing. Making the market smaller and more competitive. Slobbering fanboys who gobble up everything on their favorite brand's assembly line will stay, but we can't live in a perfect world so whatever.

Or the crash can just put all these companies out of business entirely and the only people left would be the ones with a passion for the craft. I benefit from either scenario.
I don't think the games coming from these multi-billion dollar companies are good enough, they should be much better. Sorry if that upsets you, and I hope this was the more constructive response you were looking for.

As a resident here (since birth), im glad i bought it at launch sucks for others who havent got it, also I hate NSO Expansion pack is almost 100 bucks.

***** AI, its tech bros and the investors who encouraged Nintendo to increase the prices.

Edit: correction, apparently the almost 100 bucks for NSO Expansion pack is only Family plan thankfully (i read too quickly), but still sucks.

@Pillowpants A-MEN.

@Nao120 XD Yes, but, they did give us a start date for the price increase, and it's 4 months away. It's not tomorrow. So, if they can, people can still buy it at the lower price for a bit yet.

It's interesting that the NSO price is only increasing in Japan. I wonder if they're testing it there? I suppose different countries and regions may have different needs for increases. Who among us can say.

Also, the NSO increases are relatively modest. But I know it's a monthly subscription, and everyone has their limits.

What a strange time to be alive…..

Can someone please put a pin in the AI bubble already

This sucks, but this isn't Nintendo's fault. Parts aren't cheap and if the pfice of manufacturing goes up enough, the price will follow if they don't want to make a loss. I'm glad they're giving consumers time before the price hike if they want to buy at launch price, instead of just instantly raising.

@AussieMcBucket I know, at least they not terrible as Sony whose effects are instantly and barely gave people time but still sucks, cant wait for AI Bubble to pop fast.

this was inevitable but many hoped it would not happen until the end of the year no such luck i am curious about the timing just after the starfox direct hmm.

@Pillowpants what’s happening with oil is also part of it. Getting anything anywhere, by boat/plane/truck is going to increase every month for the foreseeable future.

@KBuckley27 This is hardly a Nintendo exclusive issue. PlayStation and Xbox went up in price as well.

There's plenty reasons to go after Nintendo - this isn't one of them.

@Res462 That's also something billionaires profit from, yes. Shell's profits are skyrocketing thanks to the war in Iran. It's always good to "follow the money" to explain why certain things happen.

Well what was going to happen, happened. And I think these price increases aren't that bad either. RAM / Storage prices have been going through the roof.

I enjoy when some users write "don´t talk about politics". Well, time again for a Greek classic:

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”

Well look at it like this, the switch 2 has 12GB of RAM inside it, looking at memory from a consumer point of view, 16GB stick on Amazon today is €180 going back 4 years ago it cost just €30 so that price increase could have been a lot worse, for Europe only getting hit with a €30 increase when the components to build the system have increased so much is actually shocking. Should be noted that storage like the 256gb internal nvme chip would also have suffered due to the AI industry eating one of the main producers of cheap consumer memory.

Also @Jayenkai and they used to have money left over to license the Tasmanian devil for the other bar.... Now we got caramel Freddo, nonsense!!

@AussieMcBucket I agree but many, usually on discussion areas like this seem to think, people don’t have the money to spend on it and saying you have this subs is almost a badge of honour some of sign of financial clout. It’s not, most of us, ok just me, have the means to afford GPU and PS+ and the Nintendo sub, for me it’s about how much will I use it, how does the company update it and how will it impact my gaming. Nintendo is ridiculously slow to add to theirs, it’s a scatter gun approach and it’s always been almost “too little too late for me” which is a shame as for me this one should be my must have.

I’ve cancelled ps+ and GPU too all over them just don’t offer me the value - I’m happier to buy games I want to play. Embrace my back log.

Well, this stinks.

Completely understandable though.

I wonder if the recent price disparity between digital and physical is intended as a way to soften this. Buy five first party digital games and you've recouped the $50 bucks. Digital games are somewhat protected from real world shenanigans like tariffs and increase d shipping costs.

@Hank_Scorpio So, when do we start winning?

Idk why anyone was kidding themselves into thinking they would lower the price. That wasn't happening when Sony and MS raised prices (multiple times for the latter). At least they're giving people a few months to get ready and the increase is nominally small. I was advising the few people who would listen that they should buy because with regards to price increases you never know. And there is the longshot that they lower the price a bit for the holidays. But this has been the trend with Sony and MS for a while. This generation is terrible and it's all thanks to a few broligarchs that should've touched grass but never did.

The PS5 had a $50 increase then a $100 increase. Hopefully this is the only price increase we get for Nintendo.

@XenobladeKisekiFan You still haven’t even bought the best the game for the system, Donkey Kong Bananza

@TimelessJubilee Without being too pessimistic I think the population are too far gone, the chances of them looking in detail at who they are voting for and understanding how to best use their electoral systems to their advantage seems slim.

Excuse me, what systemseller does the Switch2 have exactly?
Mario Kart World isn´t loved, Metroid isn´t loved. Starfox Remake, Zelda Remake...Good Luck

@FatWormBlowsASparky funny story, my brother and I badly wanted an NES that Christmas and we were gutted when we got a C64, didn’t know what it was… but we ended up loving it 😆

I mean, what can you expect? unless someone starts building everything from scratch from chips to cases to buttons to hardware to whatnot in the USA everything is going to be more expensive

Guess I'm buying a Switch 2 in the next coming weeks. I really didn't want to do this until holiday 2026. FMW.

Those are some hefty increases for Japan in particular, and just like with Sony this won't be the only increase to happen over the next 12-18 months.

While the $50 price hike is nothing to sneeze at, a Nintendo console at $500 MSRP is just absurb. I never thought I live in a world where a new Nintendo console cost more than a new NeoGeo console (which is only $250).

I think we all saw this coming… I don’t agree with it, but we saw it coming

@AmplifyMJ A C64 was way out of my family's price range back then...I did want a VIC 20 when they came out, computers back then were so pricey.

Bum. Suppose it had to happen. We have had the same NSO prices for standard and expansion for years and years. That was pretty fair. So, apparently 1000 yen is around £4.59, which likely means about a 5 pound increase for those who do family plans expansion packs in the UK, I think? That isn't as bad as a expected on that front, not when I only pay £10 a year to be part of one at the moment.

Not really surprising given how much the PS5 and XSX have increased in the past year or so. Having your current hardware out now isn't necessarily a bad thing given the current state of component prices. You could be poor Steam still trying to figure out what to price their new box and when to ship it.

And at least in the west, you've got a few months grace period here to save up and buy the console at the launch price before it goes up $50 or find a stray MKW bundle floating around somewhere still for the same price. MS and Sony haven't generally given much more than a week or two before increasing the MSRP.

I do think this though does push the need for Nintendo to try and come out with some Switch 2 Lite maybe within the next 12 to 18 months. Drop the dock and come out with a smaller form factor at $350 could make a big difference for them.

So that's why Nintendo announced Star Fox the day before with a sudden announcement. To have good news along with some bad ones

@AmplifyMJ sadly I think I'm right there with you. Hopefully something in the gaming landscape changes, but it just keeps getting worse

Why is Switch Online increasing only in Japan? Sounds like it may increase in the future in other markets sooner than later too…

I'm shocked that Japan goes upon by 10,000 yen. Switch 2 is now double the launch price of the Switch. Part of that must be the weak yen.

American increase of $50 seems appropriate. Same with Canada and EU.

This all lines up with Nintendo's comments that they had already procured much of their 2026 production run, meaning the impact of memory costs would take longer to hit. Now we're here!

As to how this will "affect Nintendo's sales of the Switch 2 going forward", Nintendo also just released their financial report for fiscal year 2026. They sold 19.86 million Switch 2's. For 2027, they forecast 16.5 million. Software was 48.71m units (Mario Kart World 14.7m alone). For 2027 they forecast 60m.

We did avoid the worst, but still…just, seriously? Well, at least I bought mine when I did

@-wc- “This stash of 50 dollar bills is looking awful lonely without something to waste it on”

You know, I was talking about this with my friends just the other night.
I'm beginning to think I can predict the future.

@Kingy Brother. If the industry fails, there will be essentially NO games coming out

I think it's safe to assume the Switch 2 won't be matching the lifetime sales of the Switch.

@AlonditeFE there hasn't unfortunately, I still think the console itself is amazing and one of Nintendo's best due to backwards compatibility and table top mode, however the console really needs new first party games such as splatoon 4, zelda, mario, xenoblade, fire emblem and platinum games franchises such as astral chain and bayonetta, for the console to ship 100 million units, especially considering most people buy Nintendo consoles for the exclusives.

@datamonkey, I have played Mario games such as sunshine, galaxy and so on but I have never really enjoyed donkey kong games to the extent of Mario games,
Also I really enjoy zelda games such as twilight princess, ocarina of time and breath of the wild but the switch 2 is lacking both these massive franchises that make Nintendo consoles great,
Also its hard to say the first party library is as good as the switch 1 in its first year 2017-18, it had splatoon 2, breath of the wild and xenoblade 2, however the third party library has been significantly better on the switch 2.

Yet another cost increase in the current world we live in albeit a non essential item though.

Hope that the increase isnt too material for those affected appreciating that everyone's money situation and opinion of value is different.

@AmplifyMJ
Aw nice. I was a die hard Speccy fan. When I’d saved up enough paper round money for a Master System my parents stumped up the extra cash so I got a Mega Drive.

Well, by the time Nintendo will release Switch 2 with a removable battery for EU price might be even higher. I actually might give it a pass if price will go up even higher. Even tho I pre-ordered Shenmue III collector's edition for Switch 2.

We all knew it was coming. It's a lot less of a price increase than Sony's hike.

@StewdaMegaManNerd You mean WHEN the industry fails. Not if. These companies will either adapt to the market or die.

@Angelus3K I mean, you could have tech from 2025 but I'd place a small bet that it wouldn't be cheap as other handheld devices have shown.

Could this week get any worse? At the school I work I was overwhelmed with parents, then I received a notification of some missing information in a federal format (which the government didn't include at the start of the school year when I filled the information), a request for a trip (which has already fed me up a lot before this week) received more observations, another damn format (this one state level), the news of the new school year end date in Mexico due to the World Cup (putting in jeopardy said trip, other events at the school and my own tasks). And now this?

I didn't intend to, but it looks like I know what I'm buying with my savings plan plus my Teacher's Day bonus and my birthday savings. At least here in Mexico you can find the Switch 2 for 10,000 MXN (about 580 USD in today's exchange rate), which is expensive but still affordable to anyone who wants one.

@Protion9 They're going to be especially fresh in a lot of minds since UK elections just happened.

As someone who doesn’t own one yet, the increase isn’t a deal breaker for me . The issue for me is still lack of appealing exclusive games.

If I remember correctly, this is the first time in my life I've seen Nintendo raise the price of a console, when from the NES onwards they always tended to go down.
I suppose the rise in oil prices due to Iraq has something to do with it.

I guess it was only a matter of time. At least they gave a few months notice so anyone that’s on the fence can go out and get one at the current price.

Well, I'm glad I got it early, I guess.

@Kingy You underestimate the popularity of gaming. It’s not just some cool toy anymore. Everyone thought mobile devices would put an end to consoles. Did that happen? No. PCs are not going to take over, everything is getting more expensive so it’s not like console price hikes are that unethical to the point where people are going to boycott them, and again, crashing the industry is not going to suddenly make everything better unless some new Nintendo has a wild idea to fix everything. Gaming is not going to die just because some people find the prices to be offensive

@Pillowpants just want to shout out for the amount of likes you got here. never seen 100 plus on here. But yeah, I believe the AI thing is going to suck up all the world's water resources and all the memory chips. All so a handful of people can get rich and we can invent ways of using AI to kill people on the other side of the world so that a certain superpower can maintain its hegemony

For the first time in my life I'm going to skip a Nintendo console (my last Sony consoles were the PSP and PS3, and I've never owned a Microsoft one), unfortunately...

Can you imagine how much they’d charge for a console that wasn’t just remakes and remasters?

Cruddy news to wake up to. Thought I'd only have to put up with Nintendo's financials as "big news" today.

Did I figure this would happen at some point? Yes. Admittedly it's a lower increase than I thought in light of what other manufacturers have done, but it's still an increase. I admittedly didn't expect it to happen this soon either. At least I have some time to decide if I wanna hop on the price FOMO wagon or not. I REALLY don't need a Switch 2 this soon....

That's not nearly as bad as I'd feared. I was fearing a $100 price increase. It still sucks obviously, but it could have been much worse. Also, for context, this puts it at the same real (as opposed to nominal) price as the deluxe Wii U with NintendoLand.

@HammerGalladeBro Here’s to a better week next time. Don’t sweat the small things that are out of your control.

@Yojimbo "Can you imagine how much they’d charge for a console that wasn’t just remakes and remasters?" Yup, about $499 / EUR499 once the new prices take effect

Just when they got me to believe it wouldn't happen this year... Trade wars or Strait wars, we can't catch a break. F Nintendo's break. They'll get a refund and leave us out.

Thanks for making Star Fox cheaper, but it's too little too late. Every new game you announce makes me question the $50 I might've spent on Splatoon Raiders. Now I only want $10 games. Glad I have this backlog.

@XenobladeKisekiFan yeah that’s all fair and I agree switch 1 launch games were stronger, at least from first party anyway.

I get what you mean about not having a Mario or Zelda but donkey Kong was without doubt much better than I was giving it credit for.

Boo! Well, I’m not happy about it but saw it coming. I give them credit for at least giving us fair warning — I’ll try to pick one up before then; hopefully they can keep them stocked.

@PrioryChat not to be that guy but the phrase is batten down the hatches, I suppose it could have been a typo but I thought I'd let you know in case today might be a learnt something new day

These price rises are unfortunate but inevitable in the current climate. However they could be easily offset with an increase in value of every package. Perhaps it’s a lost sale but it costs Nintendo no money to bundle Mario Kart or a Switch game update like Splatoon 3 or Zelda in the box to offset the price rises.

Sony and Microsoft could do the same with their older titles, like Sackboy’s Adventure and Dark Souls or Halo Infinite. Chuck in some old launch games people might not otherwise buy and the price rises are an easier sell because the value has gone up.

@AmplifyMJ

It’s more of a global impact that reaches far beyond consoles or even gaming. The majority of electronics are impacted. It seemed like Nintendo tried to hold off best they could.

@StewdaMegaManNerd I never said gaming will die. There's your problem, you keep looking at Nintendo like it's the be all end all leader of the market when it and its contemporaries are the most affected by these price hikes and inflated budgets.

Normal people aren't shelling out half a grand for the Switch 2's mediocre library, and they won't be shelling out a full grand for a PS6 either. They are/will lose that broader audience, and I don't think they actually have a plan to contend with that.
The solution already exists - indies and AA titles have started to consistently outperform AAA games and I don't see that trend stopping anytime soon. Lower budget, lower specs to run, lower price, more appealing. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Ubisoft etc could all eat themselves alive and die, we still wouldn't be hurting for new games.
Unless you - as the customer - are just THAT desperate for your shiny new game to have these greedy corpos logo painted on it, you literally have nothing to lose and everything to gain from their greed biting them in the ass.

Well a price rise was inevitable at least it's not too drastic thanks to Nintendo using much older UFS 3.1 storage and not much of it plus not sure what ram they are using. At least they are not as bad as playstation when they released the PS5 Slim at the same price as the regular instead of reduced the price which is what usually happens with slim revisions they didn't even have AI as an excuse then it was clearly as Xbox had gave up in the home console space so they had no competition.

@datamonkey thats awesome glad you found a first party game that is really fun,
I personally feel it would be fair for Nintendo to increase the price of the switch 2 if there is atleast a new zelda or Mario game because those games usually get the highest metacritic scores.

I dropped my Nintendo-branded coffee cup, spilling 100% arabica Nintenbrew all over my Mario-style dungarees and my limited edition Nintenshoes (red and white Nikes). How will I explain this to my three kids, Nin, Ten, and Do? No Switch 2s for them this Xmas. I looked up at the ceiling to the plaster frieze of Iwata’s face smiling down at me and a single tear rolled down my cheek.

As someone who was already on the fence and had been holding out for a price drop, it looks like I'll be skipping this generation.

I guess it's finally time to address the backlog.

I wonder why September 1st? OOT Remake released date confirmed!

This is the price for crap like DLSS5.

I bought a switch 2 + Mario kart bundle for 449 USD over Christmas. It was tight for the budget, but I knew that I'd eventually want one and it would be more expensive by next Christmas!

@PrioryChat UK is no better. They want to install Furhrage into power.

That's why I was happy to be an early adopter. If I had waited for Mario Maker 3 who knows what I would have ended up paying.

I didn't want a switch 2 then at launch and i certainly don't want it now, games are too pricey to now to own two consoles and pay for both, i used to say the same about paying for online now it's about the console price, crazy indeed.

@AmplifyMJ Going to stop gaming then? Or at least stop playing any new releases after current gen is done getting new releases? Because next gen PS & Xbox are going to cost more than the next Nintendo console and PC prices aren't dropping either.

I was holding out for better reasons to buy the Switch 2. I just don't feel that there are any games currently that I "NEED" to play at the moment. I know there will eventually be.

Now I'm thinking about skipping the Switch 2. It pains me to say that.

I wonder how much this will drive immediate demand. I have a friend that I was going to get one for her for Christmas, so I JUST bought hers right now to save the $50 later this year.

Well, it looks like I'm not buying a SW2 anytime soon. First Nintendo console I won't own in its first years

Thanks to the AI losers

@Nao120 Yeah, it's rough. Although, when it pops, it's going to take things down with it. And the US government is now highly entwined and invested in it. We're going to see another bailout, like in 2008. I'm sure this one will be bigger. And that one changed the lives and subsequent generations for a massive amount of peole, in a negative way.

@Stocksy Yeah, I mean, it's a subscription model. The business strategy is not to make you feel like you've gotten a AAA, $70-80 game every month. For one thing, in the US, I believe it's 20 dollars per month, so that wouldn't even track. But they wouldn't make much of a profit off of that, I would think. I figure this is why we see largely crap (apologies to differing opinions) or the equivalent of shovelware released on Netflix every month. It just makes them pump out whatever content so people feel like they're getting real value with their sub. But it's almost like insurance or a union; if you want to be covered and have access and benefits, we need you to pay this to keep our operations running. But you won't always feel it, until you do.
But you know, everyone can make their own decisions. So there you have it.
What's GPU? GamePass?

I finally broke down to try/buy the NSO expansion. Glad I got it before price goes up.

Nintendo could implement an ambassador program to make it suck less like they did with the 3DS...

Everyone is saying how happy they were that it only went up $50 which yeah, that's great. But that's because its starting price was so inflated to begin with.

Its to be expected. Not a huge deal.

@Pillowpants You will need a total civil uprising globally to achieve getting rid of billionaires, and for a total change in human mentality and culture and social structure and for no one to purchase anything, including any Nintendo items.

I continue to think the really objectionable part of this is Switch 1 models also going up in price. For the first time in the industry, old tech is getting MORE expensive over time and not less. Waiting, late adopting, or just aging into console purchases now is getting punished.

So what is the budget option from Nintendo? It’s “own a Switch already”, and that’s it. The 3DS isn’t in production. If they’re making something, it’s going up.

@Kingy If the industry collapses (I refuse to say “when”), then gaming will be dead. Nobody will want them. Doesn’t matter if they’re first party or indie, they will be left to rot.

@Pillowpants No, I directly blame Nintendo for Nintendo price hikes actually.

Billionnaires and tech bros bad. AI fearmongering stupid. Nintendo evil. Not hard to understand.

In Malaysia, the official price here is over USD600. I wonder if Nintendo going to raise the price to USD700 in Malaysia.

@Kingy Well, it IS crashing right now. What I want is the industry to crash faster

@StewdaMegaManNerd Now you're just being overdramatic

@Angelus3K everything is going up in price so this isnt nintendo fault at all with the terrible state were all in across the world.

@AussieMcBucket unfortunately irs just everywhere among the countries not just US, my homecountry (Being JP, im half American and sometime spend time in the midwest) even used AI in latest political election with AI ads and voices on national TV (being NHK)

Also i made a decision that i will cancel the expasion pack, i own almost all consoles there (except VB and Mega Drive) so its not I will miss anything from the service, unfortunately its expensive more than Star Fox even, I will just use the standard onine service from now on.

@OwenGamer22 Yes please!

At first I freaked out over the announcement. Then I remembered the Switch 2 has no games so I won't be missing out on anything for awhile lol. Hopefully my launch Switch can hold on until Splatoon 4. The Canadian price increase doesn't concern me because it was already ridiculous at $630. What does shock me is the Japanese price increase, the only place where the console was priced fairly so it sold well. RIP their Japanese sales lmao.

It was bound to happen with the other game companies caving first. An extra sarcastic thanks goes to Mr. Trump for crippling the global economy with tariffs and causing global instability. Shout out to "AI" and the data centers as well for absorbing all the vital chip materials!

@SykoMuffin trolling are we switch 2 has games alot of it.

Those percentages are all over the place.

I forgot that I got the MarioKart World bundle for a sec and was utterly confused as to how on earth the higher price was the same lol

The trump effect yet again

This sucks. But I won’t fall prey to an impulse buy. Their library isn’t worth it yet. And I’m still not happy with the screen ghosting. I can probably hold out for an upgraded model.

Edit: At the very least, it’s nice that the western market has an almost 4 month buffer period.

Trump did that!

People acting like A, this wasn't inevitable and a trend with all other consoles and tech in general, B, like most don't still have massive backlogs to finish or more Switch 1 games they wanna try but haven't, and C, as if saving up before it launched or up to this point wasn't an option.

@S1ayeR74 Eat the rich, is what I say. I see this whole situation escalating at some point.

This is what happens when you vote for a Mad Man into Power, for the second time.

@axelhander If they're evil, what are you doing here?

i got mine for €399,- new boxed with warranty.

still i think this sw2 pricehike is less problematic then ps5 and xbox. nintendo try to compensate amd divide costs over some regions. in japan the console itself is way less expensive.

Seems every piece of electronic is going up in price, not just in gaming. Seems like buying and holding electronics would now make sense as investments.

Thank goodness for retro gaming. I've found myself spending a lot less time and money on modern games in recent years, and that will only continue into the future. My Switch 2 is probably my least played new game console I've ever owned in my life during its first year. Which is really sad to see.

@AlonditeFE The phrase “so there you have it” doesn’t necessarily have good or bad connotations. It can be used when delivering not so great news or just a general announcement.

@Pillowpants - I’m a proponent of using AI responsibly, but my god, the AI data center build out plan is obnoxious. AI is not being adopted to the scale that AI companies claim. While I frequently use AI in my work and personal projects, it might only be a few minutes a day here and there or I might go days without using it. The AI companies need to back off.

I knew 499.99 was coming soon.

@mattitudemf It's not the phrase I was objecting to. The exclamation mark afterwards suggests an upbeat tone exactly because it's a neutral phrase. Why else would anyone be exclaiming "and there you have it"?

If it wasn’t for the Starfox announcement, I’d not be bothered. I actually don’t even have a Switch 2 yet but I’m planning to get one shortly after Starfox releases as I’ve already preordered a physical copy without even having a Switch 2 yet. I think I’ll have one in hands by September…
I hate that this is happening, sad times indeed
As others are saying, not to be dramatic, but I’m probably out after this. I have an HDMI modded PS2, OG Switch, an Analogue 3D and pocket, and a PS5. Realistically, I DO NOT need another system at all, but that tells you how much I really love and want to play this new Starfox. …and the hopefully eventual Ocarina remake! Wife and I also want to get into Pokopia finally!

@ChromaticDracula yeah. the market is seriously flooded right now. the dam really is just close to breaking again. for more than just gaming this time.

good luck with not getting addicted to pokopia though lol. i'm still on the fence with SF since i played 64 to death as a kid. it'd just be the multiplayer draw for me. especially the online gameshare.

@AlonditeFE I don' think that is the intention at all. It's something that is happening to all console and manufacture and equally something that we knew was coming, just not when. This is simply saying...and now we know.

Holy crap, didn't even realize how expensive Switch 2 already was in Canada. Price hike certainly doesn't entice me to get one.

I guess I got 4 months to upgrade from Switch 1 now :/

I hope those folks replying with their AI icons feel good about this one.

Today's announcement saw Nintendo increase the price of the Switch 2 in Australia from AU$699.95 to AU$769.95, and in New Zealand from NZ$799.95 to NZ$969.95. The problem is that retailers in NZ already been charging $969 for the Mario Kart bundle since mid April. They knew this was coming.

@HotGoomba This made me belly laugh.

Same price as my full fledged handheld PC now, and Switch is already running into problems playing new releases. Haha wow.

@mattitudemf @YANDMAN I also wasn't being completely serious (I was hoping my ugh!!!!!!! with all the exclamation marks when I was complaining about an exclamation mark indicated that).

I know it wasn't the writer's intention, but the voice that's reads to me in my head while I am reading was damn chipper when he read that to me. The jerk!

(I hope everyone else hears there own voice while they read or else I may have just outted myself).

@FrylockJ mid to high end handheld PCs are around $1000 or more now. They've seen way higher price jumps than $50.

The cost of memory due to AI is effecting ALL electronic devices.

@gh0sts I just can’t see myself being able to afford the next console generation. I got my son a Switch2 for Christmas and had been saving for my own. My wife’s uncle bought me one as he hasn’t been well and I’ve helped him out throughout the last year or so. I was touched but kinda horrified. I feel like I’m being priced out of gaming, but I will get many years from my Switch2

I thought the US price was $50 too high when the Switch 2 was released. I bought one last year when my OG Switch died. Costco had the Mario Kart World bundle with a one-year expansion pass membership; the price was decent for the bundle. In light of the upcoming price increase, I'm glad I got it when I did. Plus, I've enjoyed my time with DK and Samus (but DK is more fun).

@Nao120 Oh dear, I'm sorry to hear that. Wow, I was just thinking about the use of AI in election campaigns and how we should not allow it. I'm not sure how it goes in your country, but here, we can have some fairly egregious "attack" ads. If you can use AI to generate any sort of false image that you want, it could be extremely misleading, at best.

Anywho... That's a shame about the service, though it seems like you hardly need it. I hope you make it through this all right.

@kmtrain83 - My state has started pushing back on them. I don’t think an outright ban is the solution, but they need to be more tightly regulated from an environmental standpoint and in regards to power generation. AI data center buildouts should be slowing down greatly in the near term because there is a lack of materials for building transformers and other electrical equipment for power generation. Only on US company makes the type of steel needed for those components and they’re on a 2-3 year backlog.

@Kingy "I can count the Switch 2's library on two hands...
And I can count the games actually worth playing on one. Not much bang for your buck at this time."
Gross exaggeration that should qualify as a trolling comment

Thanks America (aka our idiot in chief)

@PrioryChat this this this. You’re so right man. I’m ashamed by my country and continuously appalled by people still in the cult of Drumpf, aka literally one of the worst humans on earth. That said nearly every single person I know hates him and is on the right side of history. It’s definitely not all of us…. But that doesn’t take away from the reality that this situation sucks so bad on so many levels.

Now we can’t even pretend that our beloved hobby is immune from the infinite greed of the elite.

@SykoMuffin lol there are so many exclusives in year 1. Most are good if not great. Compare to other Nintendo consoles and it’s prettyyy awesome. Switch 1 just had the magic of launching with that very special mega Wii U game that everyone seems to think was built for switch …

@Pillowpants You know that meme where a laborer is saying "we should improve society somewhat" and there's some dude who pops out of a well with the "yet you live in society, curious" zinger? You're the dude in the well.

This is why I bought at launch!
Sorry for everyone who is going to have to deal with the hikes

This price increase will only enrage everyone all the more. Fans and "investors" are out of patience and are gonna abandon and are already abandoning the Switch 2, truth be told.

This will only culminate in fans getting even further riled up and Furukawa will end up on the unemployment line and he will have nobody to blame (if he's even ever capable of such an emotion, considering accountants don't have any!) but himself. Investors are legitimately abandoning Nintendo.

@OldManHermit Same. I plan on just outright leaving not just my city, but Canada as a whole. I'm so exhausted of living in the city, but... Certain parties, let's just say, are being a hinderance/roadblock of stubborn pride thinking that there's nothing wrong with Canada, to put it in friendly terms. ^^; I, for one, have been attempting to nudge them on departing Canada but so far, no dice, I need a stronger case to appeal to them to get them past that comfort zone of friends and family being their biggest concern, as well as claiming to be "financially stable" in an economy that's anything but that. ^^' Plus I've been eyeing up getting them and I out to a town instead of a city because cities are schtinky and quickly becoming crowded and unaffordable to live in.

@Kingy low quality bait

@BaldB3lper78 Gaming is less than 8% of NVIDIA's business these days, so this cloud gaming theory isn't holding much water.

@AussieMcBucket Actually its bad as in US well, when the latest 2 big earthquakes happened (the ones in Hokkaido and Nagano, where i currently live) was told there were misinformation and AI usage to make things look worse, their words, as i left Twitter and other socials long before 2023 to re-gain my sanity after witnessing toxicty and comments towards my countries (yes, unlike many, i still love US and its people and also dating a girl from there, especially as i dont easily let politics affect/influence my life)

Regarding nintendo, yup i own all consoles (except the Famicom but that one is tricky to play on modern TVs and VB), some from childhood like my N64, GBA, DS and Wii and some newer like the SNES, so ill just use online for online play, no longer need emulators and stuff, ill miss out the free upgrades for BOTW and TOTK but i can just get them as they are very cheap.

The plans of the "I'll just wait for a price drop" crowd appear to be backfiring.

@Nao120 Gosh, that's awful. I still love America, in spirit. It's just being hijacked with corruption (even more than usual) and losing its intended identity, the one that I believe in.

Yeah, that's pretty neat. I've held onto old handhelds and some consoles, but I don't really make an effort to preserve them or keep using them. Glad you can still get by though.

Well, it looks like my gambit to get a Switch 2 in March instead of waiting a bit longer - mostly out of concerns for an inevitable future price hike due to continued RAM shortages - was a good one.

Sadly, it looks as though AI data centers are almost single-handedly driving the gaming industry towards a possible major crash. It is, at the very least, going to set it back in a big way for a good while yet.

@stuntz0rZ Trump is building data centers and causing massive RAM shortages for every manufacturer? Who knew?

Nintendo: hikes prices of already outdated hardware
Really Smart People™: Why would AI do this?

The engulfing synergy of class society and capitalism manages to rob us all blind while simultaneously convincing us to fight for that very system and its benefactors, blaming automation and AI instead of governments and oligarchs that prioritize profit over people.

Blame Nintendo for price hikes. Blame the system for its rotating villains that have far too many convinced that << insert name of monster currently in power >> is the sole reason everything is so bad.

And buy a Switch 2 before the hikes, I guess. /shrug

@AussieMcBucket Honestly i dont even keep my games for preservation (and i dont care about the intiative that much since i moved to digital on S2) I just play and have fun with them as i am that type of casual gamer who doesnt mind much and doesnt listen to Internet's complains (kinda like Sakurai to an extent)

But on other hand i prefer owning real hardware as i like the real experience instead of playing on emulator (as most of times tend of be inaccurate), sure i could save money by play roms and emulators but honestly, i find it more fun this way lol

@JumpingJackson Of course. I find the people who like AI the most are computer science academics. They love it because they made it. It's like the mother of the sociopath never stopping their kid from going on an onslaught. That would be admitting you did a bad job as a mother/creator/living. Schools aren't going to reject AI because it's their baby. Nor will capitalists.

@Tasuki You are unable to see how the destabilizing actions of a man who leads the largest economy in the world has an effect on prices rising across the globe? The destructive and pointless tariff policy and trade wars; the rise in the price of oil that makes transporting and manufacturing everything more expensive which are the result of his unprovoked war; and just the general, ceaseless chaos and the exhausting dread that comes from not knowing what insanity his next whim will unleash on us all (people have a tendency to spend less frivolously when the price of necessities rise and times are harder and things are more unsettled), these all have greatly contributed to rising costs and prices around the globe.

The rise in cost is what led to the rise in the sale price of the Switch.

If you haven't felt any of the effects of rising price in the last year, if you haven't experienced economic hardship in the last year, I envy you. But many, many have and the orange goon's actions have greatly contributed to the current instability around the globe that is contributing to it.

@Nao120 Sure. I may have overstated it with that word. But I think I get what you mean. That's great. I'm glad you just enjoy it.

@Kingy unless your picky then the point is mute.

It could have been worse. Look at the craziness Sony went with with the PS5 family.

@AlonditeFE

While the economic instability caused by the Iran War and tariffs play a role with all these electronic price hikes, it isn’t the main cause. The main cause are AI data centers basically buying all of production for RAM and storage and the manufacturers of said stuff being afraid to dramatically up production because of what happened last time there was a fad like AI.

@Pak-Man

There will never be another console price drop. Even without all the nonsense causing the current round of price hikes on consoles.

One thing Microsoft got right in 2019 when they announced the Xbox Series system was that they predicted there wouldn’t be any more price drops for consoles because of how silicon production works now.

Used to be, you made a console and then overtime the silicon needed for its most expensive components (APU for PS4/One and consoles after it and GPU/CPU for consoles before the PS4/One) got cheaper as the fabs improved. That isn’t happening anymore and hasn’t happened in a long time. Last time it really happened on the silicon side was when the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X were entering their design phases around 2015. Which is what made those consoles possible.

Microsoft predicted that with the consoles after the PS4/One there would not be a way to decrease production costs of the silicon over time. That’s the entire reason the Series S exists. If things would have went the way they used to the Series X would have been the only console and it would have had price drops. They predicted that wouldn’t happen so they intentionally designed a reduced power version that used cheaper components elsewhere where possible right out of the gate.

@OrtadragoonX I understand that, which is why I tried to stick to the word "contributed" (apparently twice in the same sentence, as I just noticed my typo that made my last sentence gibberish) and not "caused", but I was trying to respond to the assertion that Trump had nothing to do with this.

@Tasuki I'm not going to bother responding if you respond to a disagreement by calling the other person a "sheep". Genuinely, have a good "whatever time of day it is wherever you are".

@AlonditeFE

Yeah it’s undeniable that Trump’s starting of the tariff war for ideological reasons contributed to this. Glad I don’t have his stench on me; I didn’t vote for him in 2016 (voted Libertarian that year) and I completely sat out in 2024 because I live in a state that basically worships Trump so he was always going to carry it easily and I was appalled by both candidates for differing reasons. But I can say I had nothing to do with his buffoonery.

@Tasuki

Everyone has a role to play with how this turned out. Trump starting the tariff wars of 2025 that have continued into this year are a reason. The Iran War styrocketing shipping prices played a role. The AI datacenter nonsense buying all the storage and all the RAM production played a huge role. Companies like Nintendo and Sony being beholden to major shareholders who only care about the next quarter, not years from now, played a massive role too. It’s a tornado of general screw ups.

@Tasuki (facepalm) seriously with everything going down the toilet across the world and you think its nintendo fault for responding to the economy fallout by rising the price of switch 2 which is not in their control or anyone else at this point.

It was expected eventually. Nintendo held off for as long as they could.

Video games were cheaper under Biden. "Low prices and no new wars" indeed.

@Tasuki it's quite wild (though somewhat natural) to feel you're right just because someone chooses not to continue engaging with you because of the factors already stated in the comment.

Can't really blame tariffs nor memory prices, because Switch 2 is old mobile technology and Nintendo's margins are significant. This is done worldwide (not just in USA) because Nintendo thinks it can get away with it under the current circumstances. UK is next. Next year, they'll probably release an even more expensive OLED model.

I really like all the price hikes, really helps dilute any pay increases I receive and keep me humble. 🫨😿☠️

@mattitudemf lol yeah it's used way too often over the site, maybe not the best place to add it is this depressing article haha

@CallieShiver20 yeah I hear ya. I too live in a big city, and have a bit of a love/hate with it. On the one hand anything I could possibly need is a short bike ride away. Art, culture, food, it's all there. But there's also the crowds and the aforementioned cost of living. There's a good chance I'll end up in the countryside one day, but I could never leave Canada personally, I just have too much of a connection to it, in spite of it's flaws. In any case best of luck, hope things work out for you.

And people still are supporting the AI companies to blame for the memory shortage.

@Pillowpants the day this AI bubble bursts is gonna be wild to see. All these AI days centres won't be in use. The crash is coming for sure.

@Tasuki I mean he only stared a ridiculous tariff war on the world followed by starting an illegal war in Iran because his genocidal masters in Israel told him it would be easy. Your right I can't blame him for everything. I can blame him for being a total inept corrupt leader. Add genocide supporter. White supremacy best mate and lastly part of the Epstein class of course. Doesn't look good for him!

@Banjo- The Switch 2, before the memory and storage cost increases, was reportedly sold at a razor thin profit margin. Where are you getting big profit margins from? Nintendo has also responded to investor questions previously and stated that the Switch 2 profit margins are less than the Switch 1.

Edit: It's also quite false to say it's using old mobile technology - https://medium.com/@msradam/lean-mean-ai-powered-machine-why-nintendo-switch-2-ports-are-defying-expectations-538f4810ccbb

And there's no chance of an OLED model coming this early in the lifecycle. It's too expensive. Not even £1000++ handhelds have an OLED screen with 120hz and VRR

1) "Razor thin"? Can you quantify with an official source?
2) What you linked doesn't say that it's false that uses old technology because it does. The fact that it has a few more recent features and upscales decently for the limited resolution that the games display doesn't mean that it's not old 8nm technology.
3) I'm so glad that you can see the future and be absolutely sure about it, but Nintendo has a history of frequent handheld revisions.
4) The screen is actually the worst thing of Nintendo Switch 2 along the battery, according to monitor experts and Digital Foundry. The old technology is also the main reason why the battery lasts so little.

You believe what you want. I'm not here to argue.

@Banjo- 1) multiple sources - https://metro.co.uk/2025/05/13/nintendo-switch-2-sold-a-loss-claim-analysts-23076434/.
2) The T239 chip was custom-made for the Switch 2. I don't wish to delve further into all the technical specifications of the console - that was already covered to death at launch. I'm happy to talk tech in other circumstances, just not here. FWIW, I won't claim the Switch 2 uses cutting edge technology though.

Feels like you're set in a belief that Nintendo is a greedy corporation which, to be fair, is also a fairly common belief among some online.

@Aerona buying as many hidden gems as I can in duplicate copies

@GannonBanned That's the spirit, personally I'm planning on using sealed Switch 2 games as coasters

This makes me even happier that I got mine a couple months ago off Amazon open box at a nice discount!

I expect the switch 1 to go down in price, it is pretty much discontinued at this point.

Those japanese hikes are BRUTAL!
I really had anticipated Nintendo to not raise prices, so I'm somewhat dismayed at this. Hopefully they adjust down software prices for counterbalance. But likely not.

Managed to pick a switch 2 up in the Big W toy sale for $70aud off. Worthwhile choice I think even if to just keep playing my Switch 1 library for now. Effectively that’s $140 cheaper than the soon to be RRP, which I could not justify paying.