Nintendo Has No Plans to Raise the Price of the Switch - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 26 August 2022 / 4,097 Views
Sony yesterday announced it will be increasing the price of the PlayStation 5 in select markets, including Europe, UK, Japan, China, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, and Vietnam.
Microsoft later the same day announced it has no plans to raise the price of the Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S consoles.
Nintendo has now released its own statement to VideoGamesChronicle saying it also has no plans to raise the price of the Nintendo Switch.
"As our president Mr. Furukawa stated at the 82nd Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in June," said a Nintendo spokesperson.
"'While we cannot comment on pricing strategies, we currently do not have any plans to change the price of our hardware due to inflation or increased procurement costs in each country. We will determine our future pricing strategies through careful and continued deliberations.'
"While the final price to consumers is always determined by retailers, as Mr. Furukawa stated, Nintendo has no plans to increase the trade price of its hardware."
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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They won’t increase it, but they won’t drop the price like many here claim.
I'm probably one of those people, but things have definitely changed. I had assumed the original would be phased out and the OLED dropped to 300 around the 1 year anniversary, but that won't be happening anytime soon.
Sony and Microsoft don't have a history of making money on hardware, at least not this early in a generation, so I continue to believe this isn't a good look for Sony. They have every right to do it, but consumers have every right to think they're profiteering from the supply chain situation (as Sony acknowledged they're doing this in the name of more profitability, versus the business will fail if they don't do it).
Its been announced that Sony is already making profits on the PS5 hardware. Thats the part that stings customers
I noticed that detail, too. More profit rather than any profit. But with the low sales compared to what they expected by now, it makes sense that the business does need more money. It's all about looking good to the shareholders.
Wow. MS not doing it makes Sony look bad enough. Nintendo not doing it either, yikes. I’d almost expect Nintendo to make you scan an Amiibo that is impossible to find to avoid the price hike.
Wasn’t expecting Nintendo to taste the price. They had previously said they wouldn’t in response to the strengthening of the dollar against the yen..
Nintendo will just keep money in overseas markets for as long as possible then transfer it to back home when the market conditions are in their favor.
The Switch itself though is already a profitable device to manufacture, higher costs will just eat into some of the profit margin, that is all.
But considering that the Tegra X1 chip that powers the Switch is 7 years old, it wouldn't be an expensive chip today. Especially on an old 16nm process.
Didn't they already say this?
Why would they need to increase price when that bloody things been released since 2017...
Nintendo making a bullshit statement just to make a statement for no fcken reason
Actually they have a very good reason to make that statement: to dunk on Sony.
Switch technology is 15 y/o. Increase price of something so old would be an absurd.
It's not 15 years old. The chip is from 2015.
Which was old back then.
It wasn't. The x1 was really good back them, or you know a better mobile chip from 2007?
Barely more powerful than the Wii U which wasn't all that more powerful than the ps3. Switch technology IS old and probably it's been profitable for a long now time now. Why people get so defensive when someone says the Switch is a weak system?
Neither the wiiu or ps3 were mobile or arm based, you can't compare apple to oranges, and weak is different from old. The steam deck is still ps4 levels of power, but it is not early 2010's tech, the chip on it is just 3 years old
Of course I can compare. It's a hybrid system. Of course I'll compare it to other systems. And it's weak and old. The chip may be new but the result of what it can do is comparable to old technology. So yeah... it's old tech.
By your logic, all modern smartphones are old tech because they are less powerfull than 2010's pcs and high end pcs are 2000's tech because supercomputers were stronger
If you look like old tech, you're old tech.
So the newest Iphone with the most modern mobile chip ever is old tech. Gotcha.
You said it's 15 years old. That is factually incorrect.
Great way to downplay the Switch's capabilities. It's several times more powerful than the PS3.
Several? Really? Sure... Tired of this conversation.
Switch is old tech. I have one, love it, just finished XC3 after nore than 150 hours of gameplay. It's an outdated system that uses old tech with outdated visuals to keep costs down and that's just fine. Some people just can't handle that.
You can claim Switch is weak if you want (even if you go and ignore portability), but it isn't as old tech as you claim, that there is no doubt. Featurewise it is on par with PS4/X1 but sure a lot weaker than both.
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