{"id":126022,"date":"2022-08-16T11:16:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T09:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=126022"},"modified":"2022-08-16T11:16:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T09:16:28","slug":"nintendo-wont-increase-switch-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/126022-nintendo-wont-increase-switch-prices","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo won&#8217;t increase Switch prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Editor-s-Picks\/Interview\/Nintendo-Switch-price-isn-t-going-up-despite-higher-costs-president\"><strong>interview with Nikkei<\/strong><\/a>, company President Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed that the price of the Nintendo Switch will not increase despite the components&#8217; shortage.<\/p>\n<p>The component shortages come from the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in production and supply problems.<\/p>\n<p>However, this has not prevented the production of Switch systems though the demand for the handheld device has exceeded the supply.<\/p>\n<p>Furukawa has reaffirmed that they have no desire or intention to price people out.<\/p>\n<p>The shortages did lead to a 23% sales slump last quarter, but despite this, Nintendo has projected that 21 million Switch units will be sold this fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>It is unusual to see a gaming console&#8217;s price increase following its release; as the system ages, its price will decrease.<\/p>\n<p>It is encouraging, however, to confirm that even though prices could increase due to shortages, Nintendo is committed to retaining reasonable prices.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/126019-playstation-plus-games-coming-tomorrow\">PlayStation Plus games coming tomorrow<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has confirmed that despite component shortages, the Switch price will not be increased. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":123192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6524,22949],"class_list":["post-126022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo","tag-price","tag-switch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}