Nintendo Switch 2 preorders start April 24th and the price is still $449.99

Nintendo has announced a caller day for erstwhile Switch 2 preorders volition footwear disconnected successful the US; April 24th.

As a portion of the announcement, Nintendo said that the terms of the Switch 2 volition stay astatine $449.99 contempt fears that the Trump administration’s caller tariff argumentation would pb to accrued pricing for the console. However, Nintendo besides said that the Switch 2 accessories would beryllium much expensive. The Switch 2 Joy-Con, Pro Controller, and Switch 2 camera person each gone up successful price. Originally the Joy-Con was priced astatine $89.99 and is present $94.99. The Pro controller has besides gone up $5 from $79.99 to $84.99. Finally, the Switch 2 camera has gone from $49.99 to $54.99.

Preorders were primitively acceptable to statesman connected April 9th, but Nintendo delayed that pursuing the Trump administration’s announcement of caller tariffs.

Specifically, Nintendo delayed preorders “in bid to measure the imaginable interaction of tariffs and evolving marketplace conditions.” At the time, the institution said that the Switch 2’s planned June 5th motorboat day would beryllium “unchanged.”

On April 8th, Nintendo also announced that it would beryllium delaying Switch 2 preorders successful Canada “in bid to align with the timing of preorders to beryllium determined successful the US.” With this news, Canada volition beryllium capable to preorder the Switch 2 connected April 24th arsenic well.

Nintendo’s caller preorder day follows President Trump announcing connected April 9th that helium had authorized a 90-day pause connected tariffs extracurricular of China.

The archetypal preorder day was announced arsenic portion of Nintendo’s large uncover lawsuit for the Switch 2. At that event, Nintendo besides said that the strategy would outgo $449.99 with a $499.99 mentation disposable that includes Mario Kart World. In the announcement, Nintendo reaffirmed that the terms of the Mario Kart World bundle would stay the aforesaid on with the prices for some Mario Kart World ($79.99) and Donkey Kong Bananaza ($69.99).

The Switch 2 looks to beryllium a important upgrade from the archetypal Switch, with a larger 7.9-inch LCD screen, bigger Joy-Con controllers, and more. In summation to Mario Kart World, Nintendo besides showed disconnected Donkey Kong Bananza, a caller 3D Donkey Kong crippled that’s acceptable to motorboat connected July 17th.

The caller preorder day besides follows Sony raising the terms of PS5 models successful the EU, UK, Australia, and New Zealand owed to “a backdrop of a challenging economical environment.”

Nintendo closed its annoucement with an apology stating, “We apologize for the retail pre-order delay, and anticipation this reduces immoderate of the uncertainty our customers whitethorn beryllium experiencing.”