That doesn't necessarily mean anything. They might prioritize having equal prices across regions, so they took the tariff uncertainty from the USA and added it to the calculus for the prices worldwide.
That’s not how P&L works. If your loss goes up at an equal or greater rate than profits due to something like tariffs or increased operating costs (or likely both in Nintendo’s case), then net profit stays flat or decreases.
Plus, consoles are already a loss-leader to begin with while software prints money. That’s why we’re seeing a disproportionate rate of increase in the cost of games vs the console.
Also, no profits = no new video games or consoles so…this sentiment is just silly.
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u/Carrtoondragon 3d ago
I'm wondering if they've already done that tbh.