Powerpin — 7 months ago(August 07, 2025 02:34 PM)

The cost is going up by $40 for the base model and $50 for the OLED model, which makes it only $50 lower than the cost of the newly released Switch 2. The Switch 2 price remains the same but that could easily increase in the future.
https://www.theverge.com/news/717610/nintendo-switch-original-price-increase
The original Nintendo Switch, which has cost $299.99 in the US since its release in 2017, is now priced at $339.99 on Nintendo’s online store. Other first-gen Switch models are now more expensive, too, with the Switch OLED going from $349.99 to $399.99, and the Switch Lite increasing from $199.99 to $229.99.
Nintendo said on Friday that its decision to raise the price was “based on market conditions,” 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 signed an executive order that will impose new “reciprocal” tariffs on a range of countries. Trump’s growing list of tariffs now includes a 20 percent levy on products imported from Vietnam, where Nintendo has transferred most of its production.