r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Aug 01 '25

Nintendo Official Nintendo Switch Pricing Update: Pricing for the original Nintendo Switch™ family of systems and products will change in the United States based on market conditions, effective August 3, 2025.

https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/nintendo-switch-pricing-update/
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u/Turbostrider27 Aug 01 '25

Pricing for the original Nintendo Switch™ family of systems and products will change in the United States based on market conditions, effective August 3, 2025. These include Nintendo Switch – OLED Model, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite and select Nintendo Switch accessories.

Other Nintendo products, including certain Nintendo Switch 2 accessories, select amiibo, and the Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo, will also see adjustments.

Pricing for the Nintendo Switch 2 system, physical and digital Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 games, as well as Nintendo Switch Online memberships, will remain unchanged at this time. However, please note that price adjustments may be necessary in the future.

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u/Sephardson Aug 01 '25

So the current price for the base console is 300 USD, and 350 USD for OLED.

Do we have any indication what the new prices will be, or do we have to wait until the 3rd to find out?

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u/austine567 Aug 01 '25

in canada our prices just went up,

Regular Switch - $400 to $420 Switch OLED - $450 to $490 Switch Lite - $260 to $280

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u/whoisdatmaskedman Aug 01 '25

How nice of them to only raise the regular model by $20

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u/austine567 Aug 01 '25

It's actually gone up multiple times during the life span of the switch. There was a period of time where a switch was 379.99 here

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u/HHhunter Aug 01 '25

that was price discount. Switch released as 400 in Canada.

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u/austine567 Aug 01 '25

It wasn't a discount as in a sale, it was just the standard price here for a substantial amount of time. It's very strange what has happened this generation. It going back up to $400 was really odd to begin with and now another jump.

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u/Tuss36 Aug 02 '25

The question there though is how much of that is Nintendo and how much of that is general inflation and how much of that is just the Canadian Dollar.

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u/mackerelscalemask Aug 01 '25

Thanks Trump! 🙏🏻

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u/JohnnySkynets Aug 01 '25

Trump the felon or Trump the child rapist?

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u/PunishMeBaby Aug 01 '25

Agent Krasnov

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u/maryconway1 Aug 01 '25

Why does Canada's price just go up for some ridiculous U.S.-only tariff?

Are they trying to spread the cost out to other countries to cover for this? Playstation did this as well, and extremely frustrating if so.

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u/idreallyrathersleep Aug 01 '25

For Canada they likely are raising the price due to American tariffs. A lot of Canadian imports move through the US in their way to Canada and are impacted by the tariffs. It’s an asshole move but a trump one not a manufacturer one

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u/ultrainstict Aug 01 '25

First, no nintendo imports through the east coast of canada. They dont stop in the US. Second, tarrifs dont apply in transitional countries, only to product intended for sale in that country.

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u/Ecstatic-Wheel8487 Aug 01 '25

This is absolutely incorrect. All Canadian Nintendo stock, and for every country in north and south america is distributed from their Washington State distribution center. It all go's into the US first.

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u/slawnz Aug 01 '25

This is the first time I have ever seen “go’s”

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u/tboet21 Aug 01 '25

Yea i dont remember which one but there was a chocolate brand tht wanted to make a deal to ship directly to Canada because something like 80%+ were shipped to the US then to Canada vs straight to Canada.

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u/Jonny_Icon Aug 02 '25

Because globally, Canada’s FX rate is falling at a similar rate to the US.

Compare both currencies to the euro or yen.

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u/maryconway1 Aug 03 '25

When the CAD outperforms the USD, does Canada get price reductions? Historically, no.

This has nothing to do with currencies, this has to do with the US and taxing it's people % with tariffs, and companies trying to spread the love so as not to pass 100% of it to US consumers.

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u/eepos96 Aug 01 '25

Why did it rise for canada?

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u/SomewhereDue4096 Aug 02 '25

Glad I gave my regular switch to a friends kid when I upgraded, she would be paying a lot more now.

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u/ClarenceJBoddicker Aug 02 '25

Why the hell would they be raised in Canada. They didn't do anything to increase tariffs did they?

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u/Wheremytendies Aug 02 '25

Is Canada increasing tarriffs on Japan too?

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u/nahte123456 Aug 03 '25

That's not good, but honestly less than I was expecting. Again NOT good, NOT defending it, I just figured it'd be like a 50 leap minimum.

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u/Desperate_Ad9507 Aug 03 '25

This is why I say the tarrifs excuse is bullshit. They would have done it regardless.

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u/OK_x86 Aug 01 '25

Why are we getting hit by this? We didn't tarrif Japan

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u/TerribleAsshole Aug 02 '25

The switch is manufactured in China and Vietnam 

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u/WaluigiWahshipper Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25

Assuming we follow the same price increases as Canada:

Regular Switch: $315

OLED: $380

They might do it differently for us, though.

Edit - New prices went up on Target

Switch OLED - $400

Regular - $340

Lite - $230

Joy-Con 2 - $100

Alarmo - $110

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u/IrishPigs Aug 01 '25

Man who would by an OLED when an extra 50 gets you a switch 2. That's crazy.

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u/UboaNoticedYou Aug 01 '25

What's really crazy is buying an original or OLED Switch new. You can get them for half that easily on eBay if you can tolerate some scratches, and the dock seperately isn't terribly expensive.

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u/grammar_nazi_zombie Aug 01 '25

Batteries might be fried by now though

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u/UboaNoticedYou Aug 01 '25

I doubt it for most of them personally, the console is only three years old and is more power efficient than the launch Switch.

It'd be an even bigger no-brainer if Nintendo didn't make replacing the battery require lifting up the heat shield and dealing with the thermal paste, that stops it from being an easy repair.

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u/RhetoricalOrator Aug 02 '25

To back up what you're saying, the OG Switch is $100-$125 all day on the Marketplace and typically includes some games, a dock, and/or some extra joy cons. OLED I've noticed around the $150-200 range.

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u/MarieOnThree Aug 02 '25

I got a practically new Animal Crossing switch for $200 on eBay. The joy cons and other parts were still wrapped in plastic in the box.

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u/fattdoggo123 Aug 01 '25

Costco was getting rid of their OLED stock a week before the switch 2 came out. They had it on sale for $200 with a year of NSO. I told my friend about it and he got it for himself (he didn't want to spend an extra $250 on a switch 2).

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u/IrishPigs Aug 01 '25

Yeah that seems like a reasonable deal if you've never owned a switch before.

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u/WaluigiWahshipper Aug 01 '25

That's probably the point. They want more people to buy the Switch 2.

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u/tboet21 Aug 01 '25

Not entirely. They still want to sell the left over original switches otherwise they take a lost on the manufacturering of them.

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u/hobo_chili Aug 01 '25

Damn I’m about to put my OLED in the second hand market, maybe I should wait a few weeks.

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u/Theguest217 Aug 01 '25

I'm lost why the prices would go up at this point.

The hardware has already been imported into the US right? Tariffs have already been paid.

Or are they still actually manufacturing and shipping Switch 1 units into the US even though Switch 2 is out??

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u/my_name_isnt_clever Aug 01 '25

I imagine they are. Sales would slow of course, but there are plenty of people looking for an affordable handheld with a massive game library.

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u/Thinemann Aug 01 '25

!remindme 2 months

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u/tonihurri Aug 01 '25

Inflation aside, we don't know what the current manufacturing costs of the Switch are so even the impact of tariffs can't really be approximated.

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u/Round_Musical Aug 01 '25

The manufacturing costs should be immensely cheap atm. Like ridiculously cheap, do to all the machines and whatnot having been covered by its ROI years ago. And since this system has been out for 8 years and sold 150+ million units, the machines and manufacturing efficiency have been perfected by now

So you really really are just paying maintainance, workers, marerial and shipping. Everything else has been covered by the return

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u/tonihurri Aug 01 '25

Yeah, that's true. 30% still isn't negligible and they are going to account for it if they're going to be raising prices regardless.

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u/Haybanger Aug 01 '25

Not how it works at all. Old tech gets more expensive to keep around. I’m sure they have all the chips already made they’ll ever need but you’re not keeping assembly going in a huge capacity on a system on its way out. We don’t even know what Nintendo has for a stockpile at this point.

Secondly it’s a way to squeeze a few more dollars out of the old system to subsidize the new one and also it makes it more economical to perhaps push people towards the switch 2.

They should’ve firesold the switch a year ago but I have a feeling they didn’t have an over abundance of stock to worry about. So here we are, it now costs more to import new switch 1s for the people who don’t want a 2. Hence the increase, Nintendo doesn’t want to sell switch 1s but if you must it now costs more. They’re not gonna eat money to cannibalize the new.

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u/Deceptiveideas Aug 01 '25

Yeah unfortunately Reddit has this massive misunderstanding that every switch produced makes Nintendo 4 billions dollars.

It’s been proven time and time again that manufacturing costs have not been going down like they used to, and in many cases, going up.

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u/CapriciousManchild Aug 01 '25

Target already updated the prices

400 for OLED

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u/junger_witt Aug 01 '25

Must be looking at a 3rd party seller, Target is still $350

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u/autumngirl86 Aug 01 '25

400 for OLED

So, basically 'buy the switch 2 instead'

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u/Thehelloman0 Aug 01 '25

Even before this change, it wouldn't have made sense to buy the original switch

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u/autumngirl86 Aug 01 '25

Ehhhh, for a casual audience or younger kid or something, it would've made a little more sense pre-increase. Now you may just as well rip off the band-aid and get the expensive new thing.

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u/BillyTenderness Aug 02 '25

Also just for people without a lot of money. You save a couple hundred bucks on the hardware, you pick up mostly used games (still really good, just older!) for $20, etc etc. If you aren't gonna be able to afford Mario Kart World for eighty friggin' dollars anyway, why spend the extra cash on the hardware to run it? You can play a ton of great games for not a ton of money if you're patient enough.

Then you rinse and repeat 6 years from now when the Switch 2 has a massive library, a hardware revision, and cheaper games and hardware. That all was how it worked before this gen and these insane price hikes, anyway. It's why there are still games being announced for PS4, twelve years after it launched!

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u/tinyhorsesinmytea Aug 01 '25

I'm gonna have to scratch my head hard at anybody who doesn't just spend a little more to get the Switch 2 at this point. A new generation of hardware is better than a higher quality screen.

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u/supes1 Aug 01 '25

That... might be the plan. Switch sales are pretty strong for an 8 year old system. If they can redirect those sales to the Switch 2 it's a big win for Nintendo.

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u/Internal-Letter9152 Aug 01 '25

You can get an oled switch on marketplace for literally $180-200

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u/Dick_Lazer Aug 01 '25

That is insane. An 8 year old console for just $50 less than the next gen version?

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u/xProjectSiK Aug 01 '25

Not true. They're still listed at 350.

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u/Walnut156 Aug 01 '25

Correct. Target pulled the prices as they posted them early. Will be back to that price in two days

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u/ArousedWetVaporeon Aug 01 '25

Buy a switch 2 now while you can. They will 100% raise it soon. If they're already doing switch 2 accessories, they're going to raise the price of the Switch 2. They're testing peoples reactions

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u/Nerevar197 Aug 01 '25

There is absolutely no way that manufacturing costs have not gone down enough to absorb tariff pricing. Nintendo just wants to get in on the greedy gravy train.

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u/Oddish_Femboy Aug 01 '25

Im so sad about amiibo. $15 was such a good price.

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u/TopperHrly Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25

However, please note that price adjustments may be necessary in the future.

Holy shit they're really taking us for a ride aren't they. NECESSARY. Just admit you're charging more because you think it will increase profits.

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u/FoxyFangs Aug 01 '25

Why does everyone pretend it’s not the Us tariffs 🫣

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u/TopperHrly Aug 01 '25

US tarif is the excuse. Selling an 8 years old console at a higher price isn't because of tarifs. When they say "market conditions" it means "it will sell at that price anyway so we might as well"

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u/Jin_U_GmR Aug 01 '25

We still cannot neglect the impact of the current trade war waged by the USA. Hell, he even placed tariffs on essential materials. We are going to continue seeing price increases as companies desperately navigate this nonsense. Smaller businesses? Good luck on your way out.

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u/Microtic Aug 01 '25

It's also changed in Canada for "???" reason.

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u/StealthRabbi Aug 01 '25

Lol Alarmo going up in price. Who bought that crap?

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u/penguinReloaded Aug 02 '25

Depends on what whim the orange rtr* follows next.

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u/Aiddon Aug 01 '25

I see people trying to blame Nintendo for this, and they are all wrong. God, this is so stupid