{"id":126339,"date":"2026-05-08T13:31:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/nintendo-switch-2-is-getting-more-expensive\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:34:04","slug":"nintendo-switch-2-is-getting-more-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/nintendo-switch-2-is-getting-more-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch 2 is getting more expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>The Nintendo Switch 2 launched in the US last year for $449.99, and as of September 1 it&#8217;s getting $50 more expensive. So it would be $499.99. The company says it is doing this &#8220;in view of changing market conditions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Switch 2 is also getting CAD 50 more expensive in Canada and \u20ac40 more in Europe. In Japan, the hike will go live much earlier, on May 25th.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Nintendo is also predicting a decline in Switch 2 sales next year, which is probably related to the price increase. In the first full fiscal year after sales began, Nintendo sold 19.86 million Switch 2 units, which is more than the original managed in its first year (15.05 million units). In the coming year, Nintendo is expected to sell only 16.5 million Switch 2 units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/whatsnew\/price-revision-for-nintendo-switch-2-system\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo Switch 2 launched in the US last year for $449.99, and as of September 1 it&#8217;s getting $50 more expensive. So it would be $499.99. The company says it is doing this &#8220;in view of changing market conditions&#8221;. The Switch 2 is also getting CAD 50 more expensive in Canada and \u20ac40 more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[7437,1658,846],"class_list":{"0":"post-126339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-devotionals","8":"tag-expensive","9":"tag-nintendo","10":"tag-switch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126343,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126339\/revisions\/126343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}