Famitsu Sales: Week 29, 2026 (Jul 13 – Jul 19)

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Kyuu said:

The Switch 2 baseline could be very weak when/if the price hits the equivalent of $450+ in Japan. But it seems like Nintendo understand that they can't price it too high there despite the weak competition from PS and PC.

And given the high frequency of decent to great selling Nintendo titles, the "baseline" isn't exactly a baseline. Like... they'll get multiple spikes a year with an effect lasting for a few weeks. Also, an accumulated library of evergreen titles may outweigh hardware price hikes' impact on the baseline.

I think that some people underestimate how much of an impact the 10k yen increase has done to the system, yes, it sold almost 700k in the previous 3 weeks at the old price, but the cost of living in Japan is impacting their population the same as most countries.

And there’s still a high chance there’ll be another increase next year.