As a part of Nintendo’s newest earnings briefing, the corporate mentioned it has no plans to extend the Swap 2 value once more, or at the least not anytime quickly.
VGC reported that administration mentioned Nintendo has sufficient reminiscence stockpiled to defend itself and thus not have to implement one other value hike.
Nintendo raised the value of the Swap 2 in September, bringing it up from $450 to $500. This adopted value hikes for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X|S consoles, which means that every one three main platforms have seen hikes.
The value will increase are the results of macroeconomic components together with tariffs and the demand for reminiscence and elements from AI corporations. Following the US midterm elections, expertise stocks–and particularly AI stocks–have massively offered off, at the least quickly. It stays to be seen when or if there could be any reduction on the reminiscence and element market, although.
Nintendo additionally reported in its earnings briefing that it obtained many hundreds of thousands in tariff refunds, however the firm is protecting all of it for themselves, identical to PlayStation and different corporations are doing with their very own refunds. Nintendo had a tone-deaf and cringey tariff sale.
Nintendo’s newest massive sport launch was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’s remake for Swap 2, and it is the best-reviewed sport of 2026 total.
