Nintendo Switch 2 faces mixed forecasts and tariff worries
Friday, May 9, 2025, 5:20 am
Nintendo anticipates robust sales of its upcoming Switch 2, forecasting 15 million units despite analyst predictions. Yet, concerns arise as the company’s president warns that U.S. tariffs may squeeze consumer spending on non-essentials like gaming, casting a quirky shadow over an otherwise upbeat launch forecast.
Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders are officially live at Nintendo's online store — but only if you've received an invite. As advertised, the My Nintendo Store began sending out Switch 2 pre-order invites on Thursday to those who previously registered their interest and meet the company's "priority…
The information comes from respected YouTuber and hardware modder Geekerwan, who obtained a Switch 2 motherboard from known tipster and analyst Kurnalsalts. In a new video, Geekerwan confirms the Switch 2 runs on Nvidia's Tegra T239 SoC and shares new details about the CPU, GPU, RAM, and…
Nintendo’s crackdown on all things tangentially related to potential piracy continues, but this time the company is turning its ire on its customers, rather than those who might distribute hacks or ROMs or, um, join a Reddit. According to a change in the Nintendo Account User Agreement, as spotted…
I finally got to play the Switch 2. It happened as part of a demo here at PAX East, and though my time with the system was brief (and I wasn’t even allowed to look at the console itself as it was hidden beneath a demo station), it did give me a chance to play around with one of the features I was…
One of the Switch 2's new features is GameChat, a feature so important that Nintendo created a dedicated button, the C button, for it. There are quite a few things to know about GameChat for Switch 2, so we're rounding up everything we've learned so far ahead of the Switch 2 launch on June 5.Table…
Nintendo updated its user agreement and privacy policy ahead of the Switch 2 launch next month, and while the company briefly listed a few of the changes in the email it sent out, one of the big changes might have escaped your notice. A new clause related specifically to "unauthorized use" and…
Nintendo has tightened its user agreement, revising the terms and conditions with a tougher stance on players who hack their Switch console, run emulators, or any other such "unauthorized use."
Goldman Thinks Nintendo's Switch 2 Will Blow Away Estimates, Sees No Supply Constraints Nintendo's first sales forecast for its highly anticipated Switch 2 console came in at 15 million units for the fiscal year ending March—falling short of Bloomberg's analyst consensus of 16.8…
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has expressed concern about the potential impact of Trump's tariffs on Switch 2 demand in the U.S., saying: "if prices of daily necessities like food increase then people will have less money to spend on consoles."
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