Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa explains Switch 2 price increases in recent Financial Results Briefing

DolphinPussy · May 19, 2026

GenoCL said:
It's just greed and arrogance.

They're getting their tarrif money back and your tax dollars, AND your NSO fee.

Noctosphere · May 19, 2026

DolphinPussy said:
They're getting their tarrif money back and your tax dollars, AND your NSO fee.

tax doillar goes to government where the console is sold

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DiscostewSM said:
Out of all the 1st-party companies, Nintendo is so far ahead that it's not funny. It's a very big reason why folks buy Nintendo consoles. Most folk that buy the other consoles typically buy them for 3rd-party. To make Nintendo's games available on other platforms wouldn't necessarily mean a rise in sales. It would probably be closer to a shift in sales, and that would result in paying royalties, ultimately resulting in lower revenue.

I meant PC, but yea... Also, royalty cannot be the only reason. You can either have your market closed and have 10M potential consumers (those who bought your console), or open your market to PC and have 150M potential consumers (only talking about Steam monthly active users). 10M vs 150M, the price of the console will never match that kind of potential customer-base.
10M consoles sold doesn't equal to 10M people who will buy each of their first-party games. Even with the royaltees (30% on Steam, which is the same that Nintendo charge on their e-shop (I know Nintendo doesn't pay royaltee for their own game)), if they can sell their games to 1% of Steam base, that's still they would sell outside their e-shop.
A lot of nostalgic people would be ready to pay for their game but not for the console. Even if they release them as temporary exclusive.
But at this point, it feels like they won't even do that "out of respect to their loyal customers, who bought their consoles for their games, and who would feel like they bought it for nothing", you know, the perfect excuse to not release their games anywhere else?

DiscostewSM · May 19, 2026

Noctosphere said:
I meant PC, but yea... Also, royalty cannot be the only reason. You can either have your market closed and have 10M potential consumers (those who bought your console), or open your market to PC and have 150M potential consumers (only talking about Steam monthly active users). 10M vs 150M, the price of the console will never match that kind of potential customer-base.
10M consoles sold doesn't equal to 10M people who will buy each of their first-party games. Even with the royaltees (30% on Steam, which is the same that Nintendo charge on their e-shop (I know Nintendo doesn't pay royaltee for their own game)), if they can sell their games to 1% of Steam base, that's still they would sell outside their e-shop.
A lot of nostalgic people would be ready to pay for their game but not for the console. Even if they release them as temporary exclusive.
But at this point, it feels like they won't even do that "out of respect to their loyal customers, who bought their consoles for their games, and who would feel like they bought it for nothing", you know, the perfect excuse to not release their games anywhere else?

They had a market with 150M+ potential customers with their own console, and their newest one is sitting at over 20M, not 10M. Every console maker has to go dealing with the struggles of releasing new platforms. That's the nature of the beast. Jumping to provide for PC doesn't help that, and even now after many years, it seems Sony is withdrawing from PC. Why would Nintendo go jumping into it when they aren't in as much of a dire situation as Sony?

And I think we've heard enough from PC gamers when it comes to Nintendo, and "nostaglic" is not the word that would describe them, especially when it comes to Nintendo's pricing. Steam may have a lot of monthly active users, but I doubt most are Nintendo fans, whereas folks that buy Nintendo's system are far more likely to be favorable towards Nintendo.

Gunstorm · May 25, 2026

"drop the price" internet campain made no effect... Nintendo outsells sw2 19mm units then they rise the prices and adjust the sells expectations to +16MM to mar/2027 ... placing sw2 at exatly same sells as sw1 at the end of his 2nd fy sells.

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