Nintendo’s messaging about lower digital MSRPs versus physical is amplified by Wario64’s price example, while Shesez speculates this is part of a long-term shift toward abandoning physical media.
Nintendo is reportedly cutting production of the Nintendo Switch 2 to 4 million units this quarter, instead of 6, after sales in US were lower than expected
Bloomberg: Nintendo cuts Switch 2 production output by over 30% on weak US sales
this weekly cycle of reports about the Switch 2 selling well, not selling well, selling well, not selling well is so boooooring i'm not a shareholder. I don't care.
Mat Piscatella shared how much Switch 2 is outpacing other platforms in the US after nine months:
The cost of physical games is not going up.
those prices will have an MSRP that is lower than their physical counterparts.
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book Switch 2 physical is $69.99. Digital is $59.99
Step 3: Get majority users to buy digital.
Step 4: Abandon physical next
Nintendo: "The cost of physical games is not going up."
"This means that when Nintendo sells digital versions of Nintendo published games exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2 to consumers in the U.S., those prices will have an MSRP that is lower than their physical counterparts."
Nintendo announces that upcoming first-party Switch 2 games will have different physical and digital prices
Nintendo announces different costs for digital and physical versions of Switch 2 games starting May 2026.
Nintendo announced that starting with Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, digital and physical games will have different prices: "Beginning in May 2026, and starting with preorders for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, new Nintendo published digital titles exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2
Nintendo announced that upcoming first-party Switch 2 games will have different physical and digital prices
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