Nintendo to Change Prices for Switch Gear in Canada
Nintendo has said they soon will change the prices for their first Nintendo Switch gear in Canada. They used "market conditions" as the reason for this coming change.
Products Affected by the Price Change
The price change will touch a lot of products. The items that will see new prices are:
- The first Nintendo Switch
- The Nintendo Switch (OLED Model)
- The Nintendo Switch Lite
- Both hard copy and soft copy Nintendo Switch games
- Parts (like Joy-Con controllers)
- Amiibo toys
- Nintendo Switch Online passes
Timing and Direction of Price Changes
The new prices will show up first on Nintendo’s own Canadian web shop on August 1. Nintendo has not said if prices will go up or down; but, them giving us a heads-up makes it seem like prices will go up.
For now, the prices in Canada are:
- Nintendo Switch: CAD $399
- Nintendo Switch (OLED Model): CAD $449
- Nintendo Switch Lite: CAD $259
The Reason for the Change Market Conditions
This is not the first time Nintendo used "market conditions" for a big choice. In April, they held back on taking early orders for the Switch 2 in the U.S. and Canada because of unsure trade rules and new charges. Still, the Switch 2 came out on June 5 as planned.
Switch 2 Prices Will Stay The Same
Nintendo said this price change won't affect the new Nintendo Switch 2 or its parts. This new model, with a 7.9-inch screen, sold 3.5 million units worldwide in just its first four days.
Nintendo Switch 2 sold over one million units in the US in the first week.This beat the old record set by the PlayStation 2 in October 2000.
and in Japan, the Switch 2 also set a new record. It sold more than the PS5 and the first Switch did at their starts. It had 140,026 sales from June 16 to June 22, and 1,241,162 in total.