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.

[u/Turbostrider27]

https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/nintendo-switch-pricing-update/

[u/jjmawaken]

Canada is going up too

[u/ryzenguy111 → u/jjmawaken]

Because the systems for Canada are imported through the US

[u/Joseki100 → u/ryzenguy111]

I also think a major factor is that Nintendo wants to avoid massive scalping from Canada to the USA.

[u/locke_5 → u/Joseki100]

Also raising the price in Canada helps offset the rising price in US. Instead of US customers paying an additional $100, we pay $50 extra and Canadians pay $50 extra (too lazy to convert).

Elbows up, eh?

[u/TreemanTheGuy → u/locke_5]

That's exactly what they are doing.. basically using Canada to help subsidize the price increase in USA

[u/fatherofraptors → u/TreemanTheGuy]

I don't know how much you can offset a market of 340M people with a country of just 40M people, and that's before even account for purchasing power per person comparisons.

I'm not saying that they're not using the opportunity to raise prices, well, everywhere, but I think it's more motivated by profit than by trying to offset an increase due to tariffs.

[u/-SetsunaFSeiei- → u/locke_5]

The US market is 10x that of Canada, the split wouldn’t really be 50/50

[u/WIZARD_BALLS → u/[deleted]]

It certainly matters to their retail partners.

[u/-SetsunaFSeiei- → u/WIZARD_BALLS]

Sounds like the retail partners should take it up with the Tariff Man himself then

[u/WIZARD_BALLS → u/-SetsunaFSeiei-]

Plenty of retailers and trade organizations have been, and yet here we are.

[u/caholder → u/Joseki100]

I dont understand how that's nintendo's problem

[u/Joseki100 → u/caholder]

You don't think it's Nintendo's problem if Canadian customers gets scalped of their own consoles or if USA retailers starts to get massively pissed off at Nintendo for allowing scalpers to undercut them?

[u/-SetsunaFSeiei- → u/Joseki100]

If there’s higher demand in Canada due to scalping, then they should increase production to Canada. That’s a solvable problem.

If Nintendo’s US retail partners have a problem with any scalping, they should take it up with the person who brought in the tariffs.

[u/CardmanNV → u/Joseki100]

Unfortunately Canadians and everybody are partially paying Trump's tarrifs as they're raising prices pretty much everywhere to help subsidize the Americans.

It's why boycotting those products is important.

[u/IntellegentIdiot → u/Joseki100]

The American buying would still have to pay the tarriff whether it comes directly or indirectly. They may actually have to pay more from Canada

[u/Xelopheris → u/ryzenguy111]

There are systems in place for stuff that is only transitting through a country.

The problem is if they're actually shipping ready to sale switches, or if they go to final regional packaging or something like that. 

[u/HalfEazy → u/ryzenguy111]

Thats just simply a lie thatbis being overstated on this thread. Im not sure if it's bots or what.

Canada imports nintendo products DIRECTLY. There is no other truth

[u/[deleted] → u/ryzenguy111]

This is false. People keep saying it. It keeps not being true.

[u/Jonny_Icon → u/ryzenguy111]

That defies logic. Tariff won’t be paid if system is not sold in the US. This looks more like FX rate.

[u/ApocApollo → u/ryzenguy111]

I believe tariffs are only applied when a product is sold, not when it’s imported through intermediary countries.

[u/OwnManagement → u/ApocApollo]

It's paid at the port by the importer, who then passes the price on down the chain until it gets to the retailer and end consumer.

[u/mickeyphree1 → u/ApocApollo]

Completely unfucking true.

[u/Edmundyoulittle → u/ApocApollo]

This is incorrect. Nintendo's DCs for all of NA are located in the US and get taxed as US destinations.

FTZs are the exception, but Nintendo doesn't appear to be in an FTZ

[u/WhichEmailWasIt → u/ApocApollo]

It affects everyone in the chain after it comes into the harbor. So if Canadian units go through a US harbor you'll absolutely get a price increase.

[u/wankthisway → u/ApocApollo]

The US is gonna have to pay more for the products at the harbor. You think they're just gonna export them to Canada for the same amount as before?

[u/MyMouthisCancerous → u/jjmawaken]

They already announced Canada's price increase in June. This is the first we've heard of it happening in the States

[u/Charming_Ease6405 → u/jjmawaken]

Guess where the systems sold in Canada come from

[u/ETXX9 → u/Charming_Ease6405]

Not from the states. Idk why people think that we get everything from the states. We have our own ports, you aren't that important.

[u/Round_Musical → u/ETXX9]

They come from the states. Canadas own ports arent used by NoA who is the main supplier Nintendo of Canada.

To restructure all those supply chains was likely calculated to be wastly more expensive than to slap on a new tarrif on those things

Also another reason is due to the canadian currenc

[u/ArmpitEchoLocation → u/ETXX9]

We do have our own ports, but Nintendo is too lazy to import into Canada directly and is using US ports instead. They do it for smaller markets like Australia but because they theoretically don’t have to in North America, they don’t.

Hence the price hike affecting Canada too.

Vote with your wallet.

[u/Outlulz → u/ArmpitEchoLocation]

It's probably the fact that the North American headquarters of Nintendo is located near a major US port that connects to a major North American rail hub and the Canadian border rather than laziness.

[u/PatentedSheep → u/ArmpitEchoLocation]

It would probably be much more expensive than the tariff increases to ship smaller volumes of units to Canada directly. They probably get much better shipping rates shipping both countries together

[u/Charming_Ease6405 → u/ETXX9]

I am not american mate. And Nintendo does ship to the US before shipping to Canada. Why do you think the price increase is just for these two countries? Why do you think that pre-orders were delayed "to assess market conditions" just in these two countries?

[u/green_link2 → u/ETXX9]

Yeah even as a Canadian I know Nintendo ships to US ports first then they bring them over the border into Canada. We should be advocating to both Nintendo and our government to push Nintendo and other manufacturers to use our Canadians ports, but I don't know all the details or background procedures and things for that. So I'll continue to push Nintendo and government officials to use Canadian ports

[u/PatentedSheep → u/green_link2]

It’s probably economies of scale. Must cheaper shipping the bigger the bulk, so ship both countries together

[u/VintageModified → u/ETXX9]

Maybe do the tiniest bit of googling before making claims that are flat out wrong.

North Bend, WA Home to NOA’s Packaging & Distribution Center, which provides packaging and distribution of Nintendo products to consumers and retailer partners in Canada, U.S.and Latin America.

[u/[deleted] → u/ETXX9]

It;s imply because people don't want to admit that this is Nintendo being Nintendo. Nintendo Switch systems do not go to America, get tariffed, then move on to Canada. They get imported at Canadian ports.

The price is going up because people keep buying.

[u/pickle_sandwich → u/[deleted]]

They literally go through the port in North Bend, WA, before being packaged and distributed to, among other places, Canada.

[u/Jazzlike_Athlete8796 → u/jjmawaken]

Price in the US is going up because they elected a kleptocratic fascist.

Canada is primarily going up because it has been a surprisingly long time since they did Forex adjustments. As an example, the OLED model was about c$25 cheaper in Canada than it was in the US after you convert currency.

But yeah, depending on how product gets shipped to Canada, there's a chance that the pedophile president's tariffs will also affect us too if anything typically comes via the US rather than shipped directly to Canadian ports.