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      "title": "Nintendo Switch 2: From the Successor Tease to a Record Launch, 23 Million Units and the $499.99 Price",
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      "role": "Developer and publisher of Switch 2, responsible for its pricing, supply, software lineup and sales forecasts.",
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      "role": "Was reported to be considering a Switch 2 price rise amid higher memory prices.",
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      "title": "IEEPA Tariff Refunds: From the Supreme Court Ruling to the Console Lawsuits",
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      "role": "Sued the government for its refund in March 2026; sued by Switch buyers in April.",
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      "role": "Microsoft reached a 10-year Call of Duty availability agreement with Nintendo in 2023.",
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      "date": "2026-10-06",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Nintendo announces Japan-only Choose-Your-Game Switch 2 bundle",
      "summary": "Nintendo announced a Japanese-language-only Nintendo Switch 2 Choose-Your-Game Bundle for release in Japan on November 12 at ¥63,980. The bundle includes a system and a download code for one of three Nintendo digital games.",
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          "quote": "The bundle includes a Nintendo Switch 2 system and a download code for one of three digital games published by Nintendo."
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      "date": "2026-09-18",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Nintendo releases a new Switch 2 and Mario Kart World bundle in the US",
      "summary": "Nintendo released a Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World bundle on September 18, 2026. The bundle includes a game download and a three-month Nintendo Switch Online Individual Membership for $549.99, which Nintendo said was a $37.98 saving against separate suggested retail prices.",
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          "quote": "Hit the ground racing starting in late September with the Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World Bundle, featuring a Nintendo Switch 2 system, a full download of the Mario Kart World game and a 3-Month (90-Day) Nintendo Switch Online Individual Membership for $549.99 – a savings of $37.98⁴ compared to the suggested retail price when purchasing each item individually. / Release date September 18, 2026."
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      "date": "2026-09-09",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "September Direct: Monster Hunter Wilds in December, Metroid Ravenous in January, Kirby in spring 2027",
      "summary": "The 45-minute Direct laid out the second winter of Switch 2 software: Monster Hunter Wilds with local co-op on December 4, Final Fantasy VII Revelation in April 2027, The Witcher 3 remastered, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity on February 25, 2027, a new 2D Metroid, Ravenous, and a new Kirby to close, with no 3D Mario. The lineup is what Nintendo is counting on to carry a $499.99 console through the holidays.",
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          "url": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-direct-september-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games/",
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          "quote": "The Direct kicked off with Monster Hunter Wilds for Switch 2. It’ll be coming to the console on December 4, 2026. This version will include local co-op, and the big Ascendance expansion is also coming to the Switch 2 edition of the game."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-direct-september-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games/",
          "outlet": "GameSpot",
          "published": "2026-09-09",
          "quote": "There weren’t too many first-party reveals–sorry, 3D Mario fans–but we did get a first look at both a new Kirby adventure and another Metroid 2D game that leans hard into its “eat or be eaten” theme."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/nintendo-direct-reveals-metroid-ravenous-kirby-and-the-world-beyond-and-more-games-for-nintendo-switch-2-and-nintendo-switch/",
          "outlet": "Nintendo",
          "published": "2026-09-09",
          "quote": "Monster Hunter Wilds launches for Nintendo Switch 2 on Dec. 4."
        }
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      "date": "2026-09-08",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Nintendo announces Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 system",
      "summary": "Nintendo announced the Nintendo Switch 2 – The Legend of Zelda – 40th Anniversary Edition for October 29. Nintendo said the system does not include a game, and Tom’s Hardware reported a US price of $520.",
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          "quote": "This product does not come with a game."
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          "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-unveils-the-legend-of-zelda-40th-anniversary-switch-2-for-usd520-first-ever-special-edition-switch-2-drops-october-19-alongside-usd100-pro-controller-pre-orders-live",
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          "quote": "The console will retail for $520 and does not come with any game."
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      "date": "2026-09-08",
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      "title": "Zelda 40th anniversary Direct: the Ocarina of Time remake and a live-action film date",
      "summary": "Nintendo devoted a 30-minute Direct to Zelda's 40th anniversary, built around the Switch 2 remake of Ocarina of Time due in November, a playable ocarina, a museum exhibition and concert tour, and the logo and April 30, 2027 date for the live-action film. Nintendo Life reported a Zelda special-edition Switch 2 console and Pro Controller for October.",
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          "url": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-legend-of-zelda-40th-anniversary-direct-all-the-biggest-announcements/",
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          "published": "2026-09-08",
          "quote": "This was mostly focused on the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and the presentation also revealed new celebrations being held around the world. We’re also going to be brushing up on our musical skills, as Nintendo is going to sell an Ocarina instrument that you can use in the upcoming remake, which launches in November."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/the-legend-of-zelda-40th-anniversary-celebration-revealed-in-new-nintendo-direct-presentation/",
          "outlet": "Nintendo",
          "published": "2026-09-08",
          "quote": "Finally, the series’ live-action movie will open in theaters worldwide on April 30, 2027, from Nintendo, Arad Productions Inc. and Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc."
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      "id": 1535,
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      "date": "2026-09",
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      "title": "User-replaceable-battery Switch 2 revision becomes available in Europe",
      "summary": "Nintendo said selected products in Europe would be replaced on a rolling basis with revisions containing user-replaceable batteries starting in summer 2026. Nintendo Life reported on September 7 that the revised Switch 2 model was available to buy in multiple regions.",
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          "url": "https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Support/Nintendo-Switch-2/Information-about-upcoming-battery-related-revisions-to-some-Nintendo-products-3132901.html",
          "outlet": "Nintendo UK",
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          "quote": "Starting summer 2026, in preparation for upcoming changes in European battery regulations coming into effect in mid-February 2027, selected Nintendo products in Europe will begin to be replaced on a rolling basis by revisions that contain a user-replaceable battery."
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        {
          "url": "https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/09/video-heres-what-nintendos-revised-switch-2-console-looks-like",
          "outlet": "Nintendo Life",
          "published": "2026-09-07",
          "quote": "Well, that new model is now available for purchase in multiple regions, and YouTube channel Nintendúo recently got its hands on one to showcase the differences."
        }
      ]
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      "id": 353,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-tariff-refund-litigation#n353",
      "date": "2026-08-31",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Sony and Microsoft ask courts to dismiss the console refund suits: buyers got what they paid for",
      "summary": "Sony moved to dismiss the consolidated PS5 case in the Northern District of California on August 31, after Microsoft's August 21 motion in the Western District of Washington and Nintendo's on July 20, all arguing that paying an advertised price for a voluntarily purchased console is not a legal injury and that the price rises reflected inflation, component costs and demand rather than tariffs alone. Sony noted its second, $100 increase came after the tariffs were struck down. Costco and Walmart said refunds would flow to customers as lower prices; Nintendo's refund was put at about $300 million.",
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          "outlet": "SlashGear",
          "published": "2026-09-04",
          "quote": "Several companies, including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, are facing lawsuits over the issue, but Sony wants its lawsuit dismissed."
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      "id": 935,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/nintendo-switch-2#n935",
      "date": "2026-08-06",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Q1 FY2027: 3.82 million for 23.68 million total, down a third on the launch quarter but 'solid' after Japan's price rise",
      "summary": "Nintendo sold 3.82 million Switch 2 units in the June quarter, 34 percent fewer than the 5.82 million launch quarter a year earlier but more than the 2.49 million of the preceding quarter, for 23.68 million since launch, passing the GameCube's lifetime total. Operating profit rose 150 percent. Nintendo said sell-through remained solid despite the Japanese price revision and still exceeded the original Switch's pace.",
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          "outlet": "Nintendo Everything",
          "published": "2026-08-06",
          "quote": "In our dedicated video game platform business in the first quarter of the fiscal year (April through June 2026), Nintendo Switch 2 hardware maintained strong sales momentum, with sales totaling 3.82 million units."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.shacknews.com/article/150272/nintendo-switch-2-3-82-million-sales-q1-fy27",
          "outlet": "Shacknews",
          "published": "2026-08-06",
          "quote": "While the number of Nintendo Switch 2 consoles sold continues to grow, the Q1 FY27 results are 34 percent lower than the Q1 FY26 results, which saw 5.82 million units moved. However, this is an increase compared to Q4 FY26’s 2.49 million units sold."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2026/260806_2e.pdf",
          "outlet": "Nintendo Co., Ltd.",
          "published": "2026-08-06",
          "quote": "In the Japanese market, where a price revision took effect on May 25, hardware sell-through has also remained solid."
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      "date": "2026-07-20",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Nintendo moves to dismiss consumer tariff-refund class action",
      "summary": "Nintendo moved to dismiss the proposed consumer class action brought by Hoffert and Sharan. It argued that plaintiffs were not entitled to a rebate based on legal developments related to tariffs.",
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          "outlet": "Hoffert v. Nintendo of America motion to dismiss",
          "published": "2026-07-20",
          "quote": "Plaintiffs are not entitled to a rebate simply because of intervening legal developments related to tariffs."
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      ]
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      "id": 934,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/nintendo-switch-2#n934",
      "date": "2026-07-06",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "The original Switch's European run ends: no more shipments to retailers from February 2027",
      "summary": "Nintendo confirmed that the Switch, Switch Lite and Switch OLED would no longer be supplied to European retailers from mid-February 2027, a consequence of EU battery rules rather than demand, leaving Switch 2 as the only Nintendo console in the region. The nine-year-old Switch had passed 155 million units.",
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        {
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.com/de-de/Support/Nintendo-Switch-2/Informationen-zu-bevorstehenden-Anderungen-im-Zusammenhang-mit-den-Batterien-einiger-Nintendo-Produkte-3132901.html",
          "outlet": "Nintendo of Europe",
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          "quote": "Ab Mitte Februar 2027, also fast zehn Jahre nach der Markteinführung der Nintendo Switch im März 2017, wird Nintendo keine Hardware der Nintendo Switch-Konsolenfamilie mehr an Einzelhändler ausliefern."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.techtimes.com/articles/319831/20260707/switch-2-price-hits-49999-55-days-nintendo-ends-switch-1-era-europe.htm",
          "outlet": "Tech Times",
          "published": "2026-07-07",
          "quote": "On July 6, Nintendo confirmed that the Switch, Switch Lite, and Switch OLED — the original Switch family — will no longer be sold to European retailers beginning mid-February 2027, brought down by EU battery regulations rather than a shortage of demand."
        }
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      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/nintendo-switch-2#n933",
      "date": "2026-05-25",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Japan's price rise takes effect; weekly sales fall 87 percent after a pre-hike rush",
      "summary": "The Japanese-language Switch 2 went from ¥49,980 to ¥59,980. Famitsu charts cited by Video Games Chronicle showed weekly sales spiking above 200,000 in the three weeks before the change, to 247,880 in the final week, then falling to 31,751 in the week after, a preview of the demand shape Western markets would face on September 1.",
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          "url": "https://www.techtimes.com/articles/326182/20260901/switch-2-hits-49999-today-japans-87-sales-crash-warns-what-comes-next.htm",
          "outlet": "Tech Times",
          "published": "2026-09-01",
          "quote": "Weekly sales in Japan collapsed 87% in the following week, falling from 247,880 units in the final pre-hike week to 31,751 units, according to Famitsu hardware charts shared by Video Games Chronicle."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.html",
          "outlet": "Nintendo Co., Ltd.",
          "published": "2026-05-08",
          "quote": "In light of changes in market conditions, and after considering the global business outlook, Nintendo will revise the manufacturer’s suggested retail prices (MSRP) of the Nintendo Switch 2 system and Nintendo Switch systems in Japan as follows."
        }
      ]
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      "id": 932,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/nintendo-switch-2#n932",
      "date": "2026-05-08",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "19.86 million in year one, then the price rise: $499.99 in the US from September 1, ¥59,980 in Japan from May 25, and a 16.5 million forecast",
      "summary": "Nintendo closed the fiscal year at 19.86 million Switch 2 units, ahead of its 19 million target, with Mario Kart World at 14.70 million, and in the same breath announced price revisions in light of market conditions: ¥49,980 to ¥59,980 in Japan from May 25, $449.99 to $499.99 in the US, C$679.99 in Canada and €499.99 in Europe from September 1, with the original Switch and Nintendo Switch Online going up too. It forecast 16.5 million units for the new year and said memory prices and tariffs would cost about ¥100 billion.",
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        {
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.html",
          "outlet": "Nintendo Co., Ltd.",
          "published": "2026-05-08",
          "quote": "In light of changes in market conditions, and after considering the global business outlook, Nintendo will revise the manufacturer’s suggested retail prices (MSRP) of the Nintendo Switch 2 system and Nintendo Switch systems in Japan as follows."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.html",
          "outlet": "Nintendo Co., Ltd.",
          "published": "2026-05-08",
          "quote": "Effective Date of Price Revisions in the United States, Canada, and Europe: September 1, 2026 *Price revisions for Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch will be implemented in other regions. *Further details will be provided by the respective overseas subsidiaries."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/nintendo-switch-2-price-hike-sales-fall-memory-crunch.html",
          "outlet": "CNBC",
          "published": "2026-05-08",
          "quote": "The company said on Friday it expects to sell 16.5 million units of the Switch 2 in its fiscal year ended Mar. 31, 2027. That is a decline from the 19.86 million units sold in the fiscal year just ended."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-financial-results-may-2026-switch-2-at-19-86-million-units-switch-at-155-92-million-more/",
          "outlet": "Nintendo Everything",
          "published": "2026-05-08",
          "quote": "The March release of Pokémon Pokopia (see note) was a factor in driving further hardware sales toward the end of the fiscal year, helping sales volume reach 19.86 million units for the full term. Looking at software, Mario Kart World, which was released on the same day as the hardware, sold 14.70 million units, including bundle sales, and Donkey Kong Bananza, released in July, sold 4.52 million units."
        }
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      "id": 358,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/us-tariff-refund-litigation#n358",
      "date": "2026-04-21",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Consumers sue Nintendo over tariff refunds and consumer prices",
      "summary": "Gregory Hoffert and Prashant Sharan filed a proposed class action against Nintendo of America. They alleged Nintendo could recover tariff payments from consumers through higher prices and from the federal government through refunds.",
      "type": "legal",
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        "Prashant Sharan",
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          "outlet": "U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, Hoffert v. Nintendo of America",
          "published": "2026-04-21",
          "quote": "Unless restrained by this Court, Nintendo stands to recover the same tariff payments twice—once from consumers through higher prices and again from the federal government through tariff refunds, including interest paid by the government on those funds."
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      "date": "2026-03-06",
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      "date": "2026-02-16",
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      "title": "Bloomberg: Nintendo is contemplating a Switch 2 price rise as memory costs surge",
      "summary": "In the report that said Sony might delay the PS6, Bloomberg wrote that Nintendo was contemplating raising the Switch 2's price in 2026 because DRAM and NAND prices had jumped as memory makers diverted output to AI data centers, and noted Nintendo had raised the original Switch's price before under economic pressure. Three months later Nintendo did exactly that.",
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      "date": "2026-02-03",
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      "title": "Q3: 7 million in the holiday quarter for 17.37 million total; the 19 million forecast stands",
      "summary": "Nintendo sold 7 million Switch 2 units in the December quarter, taking the total to 17.37 million and answering investors who had feared a holiday slowdown after the shares fell more than 30 percent from their August record. Revenue rose 86 percent. Nintendo called Switch 2 its fastest-selling console; the original Switch passed the DS as its best-selling hardware ever.",
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          "quote": "Whereas cumulative sell-through of Nintendo Switch 2 hardware since launch is based on data aggregated through the fourth week of December, the sales volume (sell-in) for the third quarter was 17.37 million units."
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          "quote": "Nintendo has so far sold 17.37 million units of the Switch 2. It sold 7 million units in the December quarter alone. Nintendo said that the Switch 2 is the fastest-selling console it has ever released."
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      "date": "2025-11-04",
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      "title": "Q2: 10.36 million, and the forecast rises to 19 million",
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          "quote": "Earlier on Friday, Nintendo reported its fiscal first-quarter earnings and shared that sales of the Switch 2 console have reached 5.82 million units since its release on June 5."
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          "quote": "Pricing for the Nintendo Switch 2 system, physical and digital Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 games, as well as Nintendo Switch Online memberships, will remain unchanged at this time. However, please note that price adjustments may be necessary in the future."
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      "date": "2025-06-11",
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      "title": "Launch: 3.5 million in four days, the fastest start for any Nintendo hardware",
      "summary": "Switch 2 went on sale June 5 with Mario Kart World and sold more than 3.5 million units worldwide in four days, the highest four-day total for any Nintendo system and, by analysts' reckoning, for any console. Major US retailers went out of stock; analysts said the 15 million forecast was conservative.",
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          "quote": "announced that its new game system, Nintendo Switch 2, sold over 3.5 million units worldwide in the four days following its release on June 5, 2025*. This is the highest global sales level for any Nintendo hardware within the first four days."
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          "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/nintendo-switch-console-record-sales.html",
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          "quote": "Nintendo sold more than 3.5 million units of its flagship Switch 2 gaming system in the four days following its launch, with online stores of major U.S. retailers putting up \"out of stock\" signs."
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      "date": "2025-05-08",
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      "title": "First forecast: 15 million Switch 2 in the fiscal year; Furukawa blames the price, not tariffs, for the modest number",
      "summary": "Nintendo's first Switch 2 forecast was 15 million units by March 2026, below what analysts expected, alongside a 31 percent drop in Switch sales to 10.8 million. Furukawa said the target matched the original Switch's first ten months, that the relatively high price was a challenge to early adoption, and that production limits and US tariffs were not the reason, while saying prices could rise if tariffs changed significantly.",
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          "quote": "Nintendo said Thursday that it expects to sell 15 million units of its new Switch 2 console in the fiscal year ending March 2026."
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          "quote": "\"Nintendo Switch 2 is priced relatively high compared to Nintendo Switch, so we recognize that there are corresponding challenges to early adoption,\" the Nintendo president explained."
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      "title": "The Switch 2 Direct: June 5 launch, ¥49,980 in Japan and $449.99 in the US, Mario Kart World at $79.99",
      "summary": "Nintendo set the launch for June 5, 2025 at ¥49,980 for a Japanese-language system and $449.99 in the United States, with a Mario Kart World bundle, a bigger screen, magnetic Joy-Con 2 controllers that work as a mouse, and GameChat voice and video chat. The price, $150 above the original Switch, became the story of the next two months as Trump's tariffs landed the same day.",
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          "quote": "announced that its new game system, Nintendo Switch 2, will be released on June 5, 2025, at a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of 49,980 yen. The Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World Set, which includes the system and a digital version of the Mario Kart World game (8,980 yen*), will also be released on the same date at a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of 53,980 yen. *The manufacturer’s suggested retail price of the physical version is 9,980 yen."
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      "summary": "Nintendo showed the Switch 2 for the first time in a short video and confirmed a 2025 release and backward compatibility with physical and digital Switch games, with details held for a dedicated Nintendo Direct on April 2 and hands-on events in cities worldwide from April. The name settled the question of whether the console was a successor or a new platform: it was Switch, again.",
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          "quote": "Nintendo Co., Ltd. (HQ: Kyoto, Minami-ku, Japan; Representative Director and President: Shuntaro Furukawa, \"Nintendo\" hereafter) announced that Nintendo Switch 2, the successor to Nintendo Switch, will be released in 2025. Today, Nintendo offered a first look at Nintendo Switch 2 in a video introducing the hardware. Nintendo Switch 2 plays Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive games, as well as both physical and digital Nintendo Switch games."
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      "summary": "Alongside results showing Switch sales of 15.7 million and a forecast of 13.5 million for the year ahead, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa posted that the company would announce the successor to Nintendo Switch within the fiscal year ending March 2025, more than nine years after the Switch itself was first revealed. It ended years of speculation about when the seven-year-old console would be replaced.",
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          "quote": "Nintendo on Tuesday said it will announce the successor to its flagship Switch this fiscal year, after the company forecast a sharp drop in profit as it predicts fewer sales of its ageing console. The new Switch will be announced in the fiscal year ended March 2025, according to a Google-translated post on X from the company which quotes Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa."
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