With the publication of its financial results, Nintendo Once, it is not customary, not stingy in ads of all kinds. In addition to the objective of eating 15 million Switch 2 During the current tax year (from April 2025 to March 2026 inclusive)the company commented on the launch price of the console through its CEO, Shuntaro Furukawa. The latter has thus sketched the possibility of future developments in the price of the Switch 2depending on the global economic situation. He evokes more specifically customs duties, a very commented subject following the contradictory announcements of the reelected American president Donald Trump In recent weeks. Here is his statement on the subject:
Our policy consists in integrating customs tariffs into production costs when we set our prices in a country or region of the given world, therefore including them at these prices. If customs duties evolve significantly, we will consider adjust our prices after taking into account several factors.
Following the announcement of Donald Trump a suspension of its customs tariff increases for a period of 90 days, except for the Chine, Nintendo favored prizes of consoles assembled at Vietnam rather than Chine To provide the American market to launch the Switch 2. Only, this suspension is supposed to end during the month of July 2025. Furukawa said in his statements that “Priority is for the moment to quickly popularize Switch 2” with consumers. We can therefore assume that the first post-launching months may not see the showdown entered between Washington and Beijing affects the prices of the Switch 2.
That being said, it therefore does not appear excluded that the price of the console can increase in the medium and long term. The other two major manufacturers of the industry have also followed this path very recently for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X et S. Sony pretended a “Difficult economic context” and a “Strong inflation and unstable exchange rates” where Microsoft blamed them “Difficult conditions” market and a “Increase in production costs”.
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