Analyst Says Nintendo Could Raise Switch 2 Price in the US to $530 Due to Trump Tariffs - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 April 2025 / 4,781 Views
Nintendo last week revealed the Nintendo Switch 2 will launch for $449.99 USD, while a Mario Kart World Bundle will also be available for $499.99 USD. However, this was before the Trump tariffs were announced.
Pre-orders for the Switch 2 were supposed to start on April 9, however, Nintendo has decided to delay this in the US due to the "potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions," as well as in Canada to better align with the timing in the US.
Analyst firm DFC speaking with Forbes believes Nintendo could increase the price of the Switch 2 in the US to $530 due to the tariffs. DFC has also lowered its Switch 2 sales for 2025 from 17 million down to 15 million.
DFC will be evolving its forecast as things continue to change. It is possible the tariffs could go away entirely, stay the same, or even get worse as a trade war escalates.
"The lower forecast are directly related to supply and pricing," said DFC. "With tariffs and uncertain pricing Nintendo may choose to scale back its manufacturing. If prices increase substantially due to tariffs, a significant portion of prospective buyers are likely to hold back on a purchase until prices come down. This situation is changing and will be closely monitored as DFC regularly updates its forecast throughout the year."
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Man, this really was the worst timing ever for Nintendo to release a new console.
Unless FOMO somehow ends up boosting it despite the price, I think Nintendo is kicking themselves repeatedly over the June 2025 release date.
I understand why Switch 2 didn't come out in 2023 with Switch selling so well and the supply chain crisis for a few years before that. But I'm really thinking Nintendo wishes they got this platform out between June-November 2024, months before the big tariffs go into effect.
They're lucky that they are so successful in Japan and pretty successful in Europe. But of course, the US tariffs still affect the global economy.
Nintendo is clearly cursed:
Mind you they picked June as the launch with the express intention of avoiding the super meteor that is GTA 6 and somehow jumped right in front of a tariff train. Nintendo follow up consoles may actually be cursed and maybe we need to just accept that.
I don't think they expected Trump II to be such a total economic disaster. Nobody sane would have.
Can't blame Nintendo. It's the people who voted for the American president. They are the ones to blame. We as consumers are now screwed cause of that person
Vietnam is already negotiating a new trade deal with the US, very likely this will end up a big nothingburger.
We are screwed. Tell me this, why do you think the Vietnam tax is so high in the first place?
No deal with Trump can be trusted. He's not only emotionally unstable, he also has a long history of not abiding by deals. He targeted Vietnam because Vietnam has a $120B trade surplus with the U.S. The average Vietnamese salary does not afford consumption at the levels needed to lower the trade surplus in any appreciable manner, and there's no guarantee Vietnamese consumers will want U.S. goods in any case, unless they want to buy the U.S. military's cast-off weapons. And when the Vietnamese don't rush out to buy a flood of expensive U.S. goods, he'll accuse THEM of not holding up their end of the deal.
The Switch 2 is all the talk right now, but does anyone know how the tariffs will affect the prices of the PlayStations and Xboxes?
In similar way, but what is already inside US market is not gonna be affected. Playstation/Xbox are likely to have some big hardware reserves.
What is stopping Sony and MS raising the price anyway? Billion dollar corpse will take any opportunity they can to bleed people
Not immediately, but give it a few weeks both Sony and Microsoft will announce price increases. We're looking at maybe $50-$100 increase. Imagine a $800 PS5 Pro.
I believe PlayStation's are made in China as opposed to Vietnam for the Switch. Vietnam got a 46% tariff, China just got a 104% tariff.
Most ps5's are made in china. Some in Japan. So it would be better for Sony to supply USA from Japan even if they don't make enough their to fully supply it.
Xboxes are made in China as well, and I don't see Microsoft opening up manufacturing plants in the U.S. I see them just passing the tariffs on to their end users. For that matter, the Steam Deck is also made in China.
Lol. These are yesterday’s news. This trade war just keeps escalating. That $530 price tag … bargain I tell you.
Ironic prediction.
Soon American consumers will "invade" Mexico/Canada to buy products and bring them to the US, circumventing tariffs.
If you live close enough to either border. I live in NY but would probably spend as much on gas as I would end up saving if I were to buy it in Canada.
That's not far from the truth.
I am old enough to remember Tariffs in Australia... And what family and friends would do is go overseas for their holiday and "while they are over there" buy items we want super cheap and bring them back.
I remember that but it was less to do with tariffs since Australia started reducing them significantly from the 25% margin in the 1970's when whitlam came to power and continued to drop especially with the Hawke/ Keating era free market reform policies , so by the 1990's with home electronics taking off tariffs including electronics came down from around 9% in 1992 to around 5.5% in 1998 , so it wasn't so much tariffs but high retail pricing that even when accounting for the costs of importing to Australia the discrepancy was so high that you had people take advantage of buying overseas . although you had to be careful when shopping especially in the case of consoles because besides the difference in electrical wattage one of the ways they used to combat the price disparity was by using region locking.
Tariffs for vehicles were still almost 60% in the 80's which I remember, just to prioritize local production from companies like Holden.
We also had 25% tariff on textiles into the 2000's.
We had high Tariffs on televisions which actually helped delay Australia's transition to colour television by 20+ years... Which is why some households even in the early 90's had black and white televisions, preference for high Tariffs to prop up the TV manufacturer AWA was the goal.
$750ish Canadian without taxes.
I kind of think that Nintendo should delay the launch in the US, just to see if they can "wait out" the Trump tariffs.
Imagine if they do that then launch for $399... that would be perfect.
get them all on the plane now why hes doing a 90 day pause its 10% right now
Bad, but I can still get it with proper saving and budgeting. $600 or $650 and up is going to be really challenging if it happens.
Nintendo prepping to take an L this console generation. So disappointed
not sure about an “L” since the competition is absolutely not skipping the opportunity to justify a price hike on their systems…but even if they do, NSW2 has tremendous demand regardless, and should hit 70mil in the absolute worst case scenario.
I think it all depends on how well the switch 2 sells. The diehard fans will get it, but thats never enough. The Wii U, even Gamecube are proof of that. And i liked both.
If it only sells 70 million in today's market, that is definitely taking an L lol
absolutely not. That would still place it above nearly every Nintendo home console. An “L” would be Wii U/GCN/N64/SNES sales figures.
A "W" would mean it was leading console of its gen, and if it only sells 70 million, it will definitely NOT be the leading console.
you and i have different definitions of “L” lol. By that logic, XB360, DS, PS3, and PS1 are all “L” consoles since they didn’t lead over Wii, PS2, Wii, GameBoy.
What? Among those systems, here are the winners: Gameboy, PS1, PS2, DS and Wii. Those are the consoles that won their gens. The 360 finished third, and the PS3 finished second.
So the PS5 is taking an L right now then. System has never been worth the hype.
The timing of their reveal direct couldn't have been any worse. Reveal a 450$ price that's already unpopular enough and then have to take that price away and increase it almost immediately because of economic conditions. So unlucky
Not because of economic conditions, because of politics. Having gay people and women in games isn't the "politics" that is ruining the gaming industry, the fascist orange is the politics that is ruining the industry.
If only Fred Trump had never had children. -_-
It will still sell out. purchasing day one! Only an idiot will think the Switch 2 will fail!
DOA.
They can shove the switch up their asses
