Nintendo Switch 2 sales plunge 41% as price hikes and memory crunch bite
- ID
- 43267
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 05 Nov 2026, 3:30 PM
- Fetched
- 05 Nov 2026, 3:42 PM
- Provider
- CNBC Technology
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/05/nintendo-earnings-switch-2-sales.html
- Source URL
- https://www.cnbc.com/id/19854910/device/rss/rss.html
Summary
- Score
- 2.0
- Created
- 05 Nov 2026, 3:43 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developerssaas_founders
What happened
Nintendo sold 2.67 million Switch 2 units in the quarter ended Sept. 30, down 41% year over year and below the 3.82 million sold in the prior quarter. It raised Switch 2 prices in the U.S., Canada, and Japan as memory supply shortages drove component costs higher, while keeping its prior sales forecast.
Why it matters
The concrete takeaway is that memory shortages are already showing up as consumer-hardware price hikes and weaker unit sales: Nintendo raised prices in three markets and still sold 41% fewer Switch 2 units year over year. If your product or procurement plan depends on fixed hardware costs, treat memory pricing as a live budget risk; for software-only Malaysian teams, there is little direct action here.
Discussion angle
Use Nintendo's 2.67 million units, 41% drop, and U.S./Canada/Japan price hikes as a concrete case study: who in the room has hardware-dependent budgets exposed to memory pricing, and what would they change if DRAM/NAND costs keep rising?