Nintendo Has No Plans To Increase Switch Prices (For Now) - Kotaku

In its latest net briefing, Nintendo continues to accidental it has nary plans to rise prices connected its popular Switch console, though it besides doesn’t regularisation retired the anticipation that it mightiness person to summation prices successful the future.

Inflation! Maybe you’ve heard of it? If not, it’s bad! Currently, the full globe is facing a monolithic question of economical inflation starring to immoderate companies, similar Sony and Meta, raising prices connected antecedently released hardware similar the PlayStation 5 and the Meta Quest 2 VR headset. Even Xbox brag Phil Spencer has suggested that pursuing the holidays, Microsoft whitethorn person to rise prices connected consoles oregon Game Pass. However, Nintendo is not pursuing suit, though it continues to “monitor” the situation.

As reported by Bloomberg’s Takashi Mochizuki, yesterday during Nintendo’s latest net briefing, the institution responded to a question astir imaginable terms increases and said “it won’t instrumentality specified actions astatine this moment” but past added that it volition “continue monitoring [the] situation” and volition “carefully consider” if it does request to alteration people and summation Switch prices.

Kotaku has reached retired to Nintendo for remark astir immoderate aboriginal terms increases.

Back successful August, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa offered a akin answer erstwhile asked astir ostentation and if it would unit the shaper to rise the outgo of its fashionable hybrid console, saying that the institution was “not considering” a terms increase. Furukawa further explained that Nintendo didn’t privation to terms radical retired of buying its console and wanted to support up the “momentum” of its console business.

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Around that aforesaid time, Microsoft besides said prices connected its consoles would stay the aforesaid astir the world. But now, a fewer months later, that seems little apt pursuing Spencer’s October comments that astatine “some point” Microsoft volition person to rise the prices connected “certain things.”

For now, it’s improbable Nintendo volition summation the terms of its Switch consoles close earlier the holidays, arsenic that could wounded its quality to merchantability arsenic galore consoles arsenic usual. But pursuing Christmas and New Year, don’t beryllium amazed if the outgo of an Xbox oregon Switch rises alongside everything else.