{"id":314983,"date":"2025-08-03T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314983\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:29:11","slug":"nintendo-raises-the-switch-1-price-from-299-to-339","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314983\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo raises the Switch 1 price from $299 to $339"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The original Nintendo Switch, which has cost $299.99 in the US since its release in 2017, is now priced at $339.99 on <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendo.com%2Fus%2Fstore%2Fproducts%2Fnintendo-switch-neon-blue-neon-red-joy-con-117972%2F\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo\u2019s online store<\/a>. Other first-gen Switch models are now more expensive, too, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnintendo.com%2Fus%2Fstore%2Fproducts%2Fnintendo-switch-oled-model-white-set%2F\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Switch OLED<\/a> going from $349.99 to $399.99, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendo.com%2Fus%2Fstore%2Fproducts%2Fnintendo-switch-lite-turquoise%2F\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Switch Lite<\/a> increasing from $199.99 to $229.99.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Nintendo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/717325\/nintendo-switch-price-hike-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said on Friday<\/a> that its decision to raise the price was \u201cbased on market conditions,\u201d just after implementing a similar new set of prices in Canada on August 1st. The US announcement came just one day after President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/717139\/trump-announces-new-reciprocal-tariff-hikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed an executive order<\/a> that will impose new \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs on a range of countries. Trump\u2019s growing list of tariffs now includes a 20 percent levy on products imported from Vietnam, where Nintendo has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/10\/technology\/nintendo-switch-tariffs-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transferred most of its production<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Nintendo also issued $10 price increases for <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendo.com%2Fus%2Fstore%2Fproducts%2Fnintendo-sound-clock-alarmo-121311%2F%3Fsrsltid%3DAfmBOoocoMpTG_IskyZJaZzSHx3M4t4rtSyyH_n9DbeDbTAniUK2pGpx\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Alarmo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendo.com%2Fus%2Fstore%2Fproducts%2Fjoy-con-set-l-r%2F\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Switch 1 Joy-Cons<\/a>, which now cost $109.99 and $89.99, respectively. Prices aren\u2019t changing for the Switch 2 console, as well as Switch and Switch 2 games, whether physical or digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The original Nintendo Switch, which has cost $299.99 in the US since its release in 2017, is now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77,1583,12,128,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-314983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nintendo","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114965785261417918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}