Overview
- Famitsu's week-of-May 25–31 chart shows Switch 2 hardware sales in Japan fell 87% to 31,751 units after the console's Japan-only MSRP rose from ¥49,980 to ¥59,980 on May 25.
- Weeks before the increase buyers rushed to purchase the console, pushing weekly Switch 2 sales above 200,000 in the three prior reporting periods as customers tried to avoid the higher price.
- Nintendo reported 2.49 million Switch 2 units sold in the quarter to March 31, bringing global sold-in total to 19.86 million, and the system reached 1 million sales in the UK within 52 weeks of launch.
- Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said the price changes reflect sustained rises in memory and component costs plus foreign exchange and oil-price trends, and were needed to protect hardware profitability.
- The Japan data left the PS5 family selling 8,373 units that week and showed new software like 007 First Light making solid retail debuts, and the September 1 price increases planned for the US, Europe and Canada could trigger similar pre-purchase spikes.