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Will Nintendo Finally Drop the Switch Price?

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Kairon:
I think $400 is the default/consensus target, yeah. That's a lot numerically, but definitely taking inflation into account it's not at all out of line with previous Nintendo consoles. Plus, if the Switch Successor is technically ambitious, then it will most definitely need that room in the hardware budget to purchase more powerful chips.

As for the weak yen, that's sort of a complicated thing, right? It makes sales in foreign currencies like the USD even better, so there's no need to price higher in the US for example, but sales in Yen in the home market not as great, so potentially they'd need to launch at a higher than expected price in Japan due to the exchange rate? And then there's the procurement side of it: how much is Nintendo able to purchase things in dollars versus how much do they need to be paying in Yen? It's probably not advantageous at all to be buying Switch 2 parts in Yen.

sobhsepid:
I don't think they're in a hurry to lower the price anytime soon, if inflation will go up again in 2025 or when the gen 2 comes out then I think the gen 1 console will stay at the same price and the gen 2 will see a price spike, even if it's not out for sale yet

DigitalGreenTea:
Here's an interesting tidbit from the latest earnings results that might hint at a possible price drop:

https://twitter.com/pierre485_/status/1823723320036221349

"While Nintendo achieved 16% of its forecast for hardware, ordinary and net profit reached 27% of the forecast in Q1 alone.

Given these "low" forecast for profit, it's possible the company is anticipating a price cut on consoles and/or games this FY."

Kairon:
I can follow that thinking. If their forecasts are such that they still want to move lots of units, but don't need as much revenue, that could easily fit in with a planned price cut.

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