Nintendo’s shares tumbled the other day due to market concerns that the increased pricing of Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch components will erode the Kyoto-company’s profit margins. Bloomberg is reporting that the 12GB RAM modules in the Nintendo Switch 2 console increased around 41% in the current quarter and the NAND storage also became nearly 8% more expensive. The shortages are also affecting the price of the external SD Express cards for the Nintendo Switch 2 on retailers such as Amazon.
“The rise in NAND prices is starting to really impact express SD card prices. A 256GB express SD card costs $89.99 on Amazon. This is effectively a cost that Nintendo has passed on to the gamer,” said Pelham Smithers of Pelham Smithers Associates. He sees these additional storage cards as essential because of the limited storage built into the Switch 2, with third-party games from the likes of Electronic Arts Inc. effectively costing $20 more because of the storage need.
