One simple number to blame for this: 20500.

The United States is joining Canada in the group of North American countries who will see price increases due to "market conditions", or tariffs.

Nintendo of America issued a statement today that a "price update" would go into effect on Sunday, August 3 for Switch hardware, certain Switch accessories... Read more...

Enjoy the next six months while you can, people who want to crow about the Wii U outselling Switch 2.

Nintendo issued their first fiscal quarterly results of the Switch 2 era this morning, and looks to maintain the momentum of the new system going into the key shopping seasons.

All monetary figures quoted in yen, with a comparison based on current market rate of US$1 = ¥150.345 provided for clarification only.