The Original Nintendo Switch Is About To Get More Expensive In The Us

Nintendo has announced that nan value of nan original Nintendo Switch will alteration successful nan United States, citing “market conditions” arsenic nan logic for its decision. The caller pricing will use from August 3, and will impact nan regular Switch, nan Switch Lite and nan Switch OLED, arsenic good arsenic prime accessories for nan console. Amiibo and nan Alarmo siren timepiece will besides spot value increases.

The Switch 2 is not affected, nor are nan prices of immoderate games aliases Nintendo Switch Online memberships for Switch aliases Switch 2. Nintendo doesn’t norm retired much wide-ranging value adjustments successful nan future, though. The institution has not yet announced immoderate of nan caller prices, but Target appeared to concisely update its pricing (since removed), listing nan Switch astatine $340, nan Switch Lite astatine $230 and nan Switch OLED astatine $400. The original Switch is presently priced astatine $300, nan Switch Lite astatine $200, and nan Switch OLED astatine $350, truthful these would correspond beautiful important increases each information if accurate.

The news follows nan Switch price increases successful Canada that came into effect today. The console is now $20 CAD much costly than it was previously, pinch Nintendo besides blaming marketplace conditions (that it still isn’t straight attributing to tariffs successful its charismatic messaging) for that adjustment erstwhile it announced it backmost successful June.

It looks for illustration nan Switch value changes successful nan US astatine slightest won’t beryllium rather arsenic terrible arsenic those Microsoft precocious announced for nan Xbox Series S and Series X. The consoles now commencement astatine $380 and $550, respectively, which is an $80 summation for nan erstwhile and a whopping $100 bump for nan flagship Series X.