Nintendo confirms the Switch 2 price is staying at $450 in the US despite tariff turmoil, with preor

After in the US while it [[link]] assessed the "potential impact" of the Trump administration's sweeping tariff rollout, that it will be maintaining the Switch 2's originally announced $450 price. US preorders will begin on April 24.

"We apologize for the retail pre-order delay, and hope this reduces some of the uncertainty our customers may be experiencing," Nintendo said in its announcement. "We thank our customers for their patience, and we share their excitement to experience Nintendo Switch 2 starting June 5, 2025."

Nintendo's Switch 2 preorder pause followed the reveal of the Trump administration's , leading to speculation that the tariffs targeting countries with major electronics manufacturing industries like China, Vietnam, and Taiwan could drive Nintendo to increase the Switch 2 MSRP shortly after its reveal.

As with concerns over potential pricing increases on PC gaming and general computer hardware, that uncertainty only increased as the Trump administration announced that most countries would instead only be subject to , before on whether semiconductors and electronics from its tariff program.

indicated that Nintendo had apparently anticipated an amount of tariff-related chaos. In February, Nintendo had been building "a stockpile of millions of consoles" from Vietnam, where two-thirds of assembled consoles are now being earmarked for shipments to the US. Any Nintendo consoles assembled in China, meanwhile, would face an [[link]] import tariff that—at time of writing—.

While that stockpile might have helped dodge a price hike on the console itself, Nintendo said Switch 2 accessories [[link]] "will experience price adjustments from those announced on April 2 due to changes in market conditions." A pair of Joy-Con 2s, for example, will now cost $95. will remain unchanged.

At PC Gamer, we haven't exactly been overenthused about the Switch 2's prerelease showing, which—in a post-Steam Deck world—kinda just feels like with some colorful exclusives. Still, even if a new handheld gaming PC seems like , some of us have to somewhere.