Nintendo Switch 2 is heading into its all-important first holiday season, equipped with great titles such as Donkey Kong Bananza. The company is surely hoping that generous gift-givers around the world are going to spike sales once more. This could be a rather more difficult pitch, of course, if an untimely price rise kicks in, but it seems that Nintendo is resistant to the idea. At least, in the present landscape.
This week, IGN reports, the company held its Six Months Financial Results Briefing/Corporate Management Policy Briefing for Fiscal Year Ending March 2026. One question put to Nintendo bosses such as president Shuntaro Furukawa and fellow board member Shigeru Miyamoto concerned the trend of increasing costs for memory modules. Amid shareholder worries that profits could be affected by this rise and the system’s price increased as a result, Furukawa responded:
This, Nintendo bosses hope, will mean that increased costs of manufacturing Switch 2 can be compensated for elsewhere in the process, with the net result being that a price hike for the system isn’t deemed necessary at present. Naturally, though, with global volatility in mind, this is a difficult claim to make. Furukawa was careful to add that...
