Buy a Switch 2 Now Before Investors Convince Nintendo to Raise the Price

If you've been thinking about buying a Switch 2 handheld, you may want to pull the trigger sooner than later. Nothing is etched in stone, but according to Bloomerberg, Nintendo could end up raising the price of its popular console after the company posts its earnings at the end of this week, a move that would be intended to appease investors amid a stock slump.

Component shortages in the era of AI and other economic factors have wreaked havoc on consumer electronics, particularly those related to gaming on both PC and console. Memory and storage chips are in high demand, and the high-margin data center market has caused a modern day gold rush for component makers. It's the main reason why Micron pulled its Crucial brand from the consumer market, and it's also largely responsible for multiple rounds of console price hikes.

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