213: Is Variable Pricing Actually Working for Nintendo Switch 2?
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Hello and welcome to episode 213 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! This week we want to take a fresh look at Nintendo's variable pricing "policy" for the Switch 2. This has become a meme and a huge joke but Nintendo actually really needs this. Are they putting this into practice at all or was it just all PR spin? Also in this episode, we react to Nintendo suing the US government over tariffs and we've played a ton of Pokemon Pokopia. We want to talk about what we think of the game so far. All this and more is coming right up!
0:00 - Let's-a go!
7:18 - News news news (Nintendo sues the US government, new Xbox, Resident Evil Requiem breaks records, Pragmata is launching early, the cutest Yoshi bobblehead ever)
40:11 - Let's talk about variable pricing
1:14:23 - Games we are playing
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we really have to take a new fresh look at this Nintendo infamous variable pricing. |
| 0:17.0 | Ah, Doug Bowser's Variable Prices. |
| 0:19.0 | Presented by Doug Bouser no longer with Nintendo. Yes. |
| 0:21.6 | It is a joke, a meme. |
| 0:23.6 | It's become a joke. |
| 0:24.6 | It's become a huge joke. |
| 0:25.6 | I don't think they intended it to be a joke, but it's definitely become a joke. |
| 0:29.6 | But there is some things that we like to dig into with this because it is actually necessary to have this. |
| 0:36.6 | If they're truly putting it into practice, it is a thing that can help. |
| 0:41.9 | So, yes, we are not joking around. |
| 0:45.1 | And we're actually going to be taking a serious look at variable pricing. |
| 0:47.8 | We're deadly serious about variable pricing. |
| 0:51.1 | Money. |
| 0:52.2 | Give it to me. |
| 0:53.6 | To say we're doing variable pricing and then price everything at $70 or $80 when it's |
| 1:00.2 | actually probably a pretty good policy and probably a good time to have this kind of policy |
| 1:06.5 | where it's like, yeah, some will be high, some will be low, we'll meet you in the middle. |
| 1:10.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.8 | That's just not happening. But it's worth revisiting because it has been one of those things that has been on the, I think, the back of everybody's mind since the Switch 2 came out. Yeah, and it's such a tricky, touchy subject, the subject of value and money, because everybody's perception of value and what you |
| 1:28.5 | get for your money, what it's worth is very different. |
| 1:31.9 | So it is a tricky thing, but it is something that is necessary, I think, for them as they |
| 1:36.4 | move deeper into the Switch 2 generation. |
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