Nintendo has reiterated that it has “no plans” to lift the really helpful retail worth for Nintendo Swap all over the world.
The remark got here in response to a shareholder query, who had requested whether or not the corporate can be thought-about given the depreciation of the yen.
“At present, there are not any plans to lift the worth of our {hardware},” Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed on the firm’s six months monetary outcomes briefing. “Nonetheless, the yen has depreciated at an surprising stage for a protracted length, so we’ll rigorously think about as we monitor the scenario going ahead. It’s true that for Japan particularly, {hardware} profitability has decreased as a result of extended depreciation of the yen.
“How we view the results of inflation and different components stays unchanged. Whereas we imagine there’s at present no main impression, we’ll proceed to observe numerous components of our product gross sales.”
Earlier this 12 months, Furukawa had expressed a want to “need to keep away from pricing individuals out” and that significance that the transportable house console’s pricing remained aggressive towards different merchandise that customers flip to for his or her leisure.
