The Nintendo Switch 2 is getting more expensive later this year

flipping the pricing switch

“Changes in market conditions” lead to $50 price bump on Sept. 1.

You might want to tone down the outward excitement given today's pricing announcement, Mario... Credit: Kyle Orland

These now-routine price increases are a marked change from a decades-long period where game consoles routinely and quickly dropped in price in the years after their launch. Even before recent component shortages, though, a combination of higher-than-normal inflation, the slowing of Moore’s Law, tariff-related market shocks, and spiking gas prices have made the once-reliable console price drop a fading market memory.

In updated financial forecastsalso released today, Nintendo cited “the impact of these price revisions” in projecting sales of 16.5 million Switch 2 units in the current fiscal year (ending March 2027). That’s down from 19.86 million sales in the console’s first fiscal year, but it still “represents a solid level of adoption...

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