Switch 2 Price Could Hit $540 In Response To Tariffs, Analyst Says

At slightest 1 expert expects nan value of Nintendo Switch 2 to summation successful consequence to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. Research patient DFC Intelligence said Monday that it’s “modeling a 20% value summation complete nan adjacent 2 years” for Switch 2, which could put nan guidelines value of nan next-gen console arsenic precocious arsenic $540.

Nintendo announced nan launch value of Switch 2 astatine $449.99 past Wednesday, but that was earlier Trump outlined “reciprocal tariffs” connected dozens of countries, including territories wherever Nintendo manufactures its hardware. Trump deed China pinch an further 34% work connected Wednesday, and Vietnam, wherever Nintendo has moved immoderate of its production, pinch a 46% tariff. Trump besides deed Japan, wherever Nintendo is headquartered, pinch a 24% tariff connected Japanese goods.

Trump’s move pushed Nintendo pause Switch 2 pre-orders successful nan U.S., which were planned to unfastened connected April 9, while it “assess[ed] nan imaginable effect of tariffs and evolving marketplace conditions.”

DFC Intelligence’s study does not specifically opportunity that nan launch value of Switch 2 could creep beyond nan antecedently announced $449.99 asking price, but that prices could spell up depending connected costs associated pinch tariffs. While crippled consoles person traditionally gone down successful price, nan astir caller console procreation bucked that trend; Nintendo still sells nan Switch astatine its original motorboat value of $299.99. Rivals Sony and Microsoft person some raised prices connected their current-gen consoles successful definite territories.

“Additional clarity is expected erstwhile Nintendo releases its net successful May,” analysts said successful nan report.

According to DFC Intelligence’s report, tariffs and uncertain pricing whitethorn push Nintendo to standard backmost its manufacturing, and nan investigation patient lowered its income forecast for nan Switch 2, from 17 cardinal to 15 cardinal units successful 2025. But DFC Intelligence still expects Switch 2 to beryllium “the fastest-selling console strategy ever.”

Even pinch a imaginable value summation successful nan U.S., nan patient is bullish connected Nintendo’s prospects. Switch 2, DFC Intelligence says, “will proceed to turn Nintendo’s maturation among PC gamers and nan halfway big market,” and “has nan imaginable to reshape nan video crippled market.”