Nintendo announces price increases across the board, set to come into effect from September in western regions

Bladexdsl · May 8, 2026

they truly are living up to their name as the new apple

Arras · May 8, 2026

PhyChris said:
The switch 2 feels like a wii U move by Nintendo.

Hasn't it already sold like twice as much as the WiiU ever did?

DiscostewSM · May 8, 2026

isoboy said:
Let's be honest though...we all have a backlog for life.

Even without adding piracy into the equation, I personally have quite a number of games in my backlog, and even a few from way back on the 3DS.

Arras said:
Hasn't it already sold like twice as much as the WiiU ever did?

Yep. What took Wii U its entire like, Switch 2 did in 7 months. Faster than Switch 1 at around 9 months.

Samus12345 · May 8, 2026

The biggest surprise is that they gave us an almost 4 month heads up. Still not getting one.

dude1 · May 8, 2026

Xzi said:
Sucks, but was also something most people saw coming from a mile away. To Nintendo's credit, they held out the longest.

But realistically, they overcharged from the get-go, so holding out the longest on a further increase when you overpriced your console to start with doesn't seem that impressive.

PhyChris · May 8, 2026

DiscostewSM said:
Yep. What took Wii U its entire like, Switch 2 did in 7 months. Faster than Switch 1 at around 9 months.

Good

Skelletonike · May 8, 2026

pustal said:
I'm in my mid-30s and a software engineer. In theory should be in the right circles.

I'm also in my mid thirties and I work at an office. As I mentioned, a lot of people that I know do have one. It isn't nearly as unpopular or unsuccessful as you're making it seem, the price, while expensive, isn't that much of an issue for most people that do want one (compared to most of the stuff nowadays at least).

Xzi · May 8, 2026

dude1 said:
But realistically, they overcharged from the get-go, so holding out the longest on a further increase when you overpriced your console to start with doesn't seem that impressive.

They definitely went cheap on the screen quality, but beyond that it was a decent price for a system that's slightly more powerful than the Steam Deck and in a smaller form factor. Nintendo being Nintendo, I don't think anybody expected them to take a loss on each unit.

console · May 8, 2026

That's horrible about price increase! Same apply to PS, Xbox, PC, etc.

Also AI companies are hurt hardware and drive prices up shoot far up. Blame on AI companies! That's why AI companies are hoard tons of hardware like CPU, RAM, GPU and storages (hard drives and SSD). AI and data center buildings need take down!

Soon people would have big plan to destroy power grid energy buildings to kill or stop to feed power to all AI companies and data center buildings in the near future.

Come on folks and knock off power to all AI and data center companies will learn big mistake lessons!

Let people blow up power grid energy buildings now then destroyed!

Please bring prices down back to normal! Or companies maybe will cease to stop producing hardwares to disasters. We don't care!

Jayro · May 8, 2026

Arras said:
Every time I see people talking about RAM prices finally going down, I go over to look at the price charts on PCPartPicker and absolutely nothing has changed.

Places like that which probably have an unsold stockpile of experience ram probably won't lower prices until it sells.

DiscostewSM · May 9, 2026

Xzi said:
They definitely went cheap on the screen quality, but beyond that it was a decent price for a system that's slightly more powerful than the Steam Deck and in a smaller form factor. Nintendo being Nintendo, I don't think anybody expected them to take a loss on each unit.

I still feel the screen isn't taking advantage of overdrive purely from a power consumption standpoint. That is something a software update could fix, or at least allow via toggle. But as each day passes, I get closer to feeling that maybe it isn't like that at all.

Marc_LFD · May 9, 2026

We all knew this increase was coming, but it's still unfortunate. That said, I got a pretty good deal on Switch 2 + 256GB SD (it was practically free).

After the price increase I can't say it's worth it, there's just not enough games to make it worth owning unless you want a Switch Pro.

Ferris1000 · May 9, 2026

Nintendo raising the price actually helped me.
I can finally stop pretending I was ever going to buy it.

Hanafuda · May 9, 2026

Ferris1000 said:
Nintendo raising the price actually helped me.
I can finally stop pretending I was ever going to buy it.

Well said. It may have had that effect on me as well. My recent "big" gaming purchases have all been retro-ish - - a N3DSLL, a PS Vita, and an Analogue 3d w/ SC64. I bought all those knowing each time that I was passing on getting a SW2, i.e. maybe later. I guess if N drops an OLED SW2 in a couple years, I'll revisit the proposition. For now, I'm set as-is.

Lumstar · May 9, 2026

eyeliner said:
People are delulu.

I don't understand the negativity either.

For the strength of its library, Switch 1 is plagued by performance issues. If Switch 2 offers respite, that's gotta be worthwhile no?

purple_bandit · May 9, 2026

DiscostewSM said:
I still feel the screen isn't taking advantage of overdrive purely from a power consumption standpoint. That is something a software update could fix, or at least allow via toggle. But as each day passes, I get closer to feeling that maybe it isn't like that at all.

People have been theorising this for a year now and it's not happened. So is it actually likely to happen? No

WhoIAm · May 9, 2026

Lumstar said:
I don't understand the negativity either.

For the strength of its library, Switch 1 is plagued by performance issues. If Switch 2 offers respite, that's gotta be worthwhile no?

Depends on the player. Most people I know with a Switch 1 are more casual players who don't care about performance. Those who do care about it have either already upgraded to a Switch 2, modded their Switch 1, or jumped ship to PC.

DiscostewSM · May 9, 2026

purple_bandit said:
People have been theorising this for a year now and it's not happened. So is it actually likely to happen? No

One could say the same about VRR, except the dock has support for it as noted by people connecting their Steam Decks into it. To note, iirc, it took the PS5 and Steam Deck over a year to implement their forms of it, and PS5's conversion chip from DP to HDMI is practically the same as what's in the Switch 2's dock. There is still time, so long as the console exists.

Cylent1 · May 9, 2026

Raising prices on a product they have already made millions of which is also just leftover stock at this point is for the stupid people to keep falling for it! But I digress you cant tell stupid anything!!!

dreassica · May 9, 2026

BlusterBong said:
So I guess it did kinda work in a way? idk, conistering Valve isn't making new Steam Decks and won't say anything about the Steam Machine, and Sony had at least 4 whole price hikes before this, not to mention Microsoft's own series of price hikes... maybe it did.

Valve literally stopped selling and makin g new Steam Deck 1s, as they likely would have to price increase too, but dont want to, so they just let it go out of stock for months now.

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Cylent1 said:
Raising prices on a product they have already made millions of which is also just leftover stock at this point is for the stupid people to keep falling for it! But I digress you cant tell stupid anything!!!

Only this price hike ( aside from Japan) isnt due till september, your leftover stock theory holds 0 ground.

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