216: Former Nintendo Sales Lead Predicts The Future of Switch 2 Pricing
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Hello and welcome to episode 216 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! This week we have our friend and former Nintendo employee Sean here to talk to us all about potential Nintendo Switch 2 price increases, what Nintendo's current thinking is on physical games and if retailers are mad at Nintendo for changing the price on physical games. Also in this episode, we are still learning some new surprising things about the Super Mario Galaxy Movie even though we are just days away from it. We've been playing Super Mario Bros. Wonder Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meet-up in Bellabel Park and we want to tell you if we think this is worth the $20. Big full informative episode is coming right up!
0:00 - Happy Super Mario Galaxy Movie Week!
10:58 - Welcome Sean! Let's talk all about Switch 2 price changes, Nintendo's thinking on physical games and the current retail situation
1:02:13 - News news news (Super Mario Galaxy Movie surprises and premiere, PlayStation price increases, Nate the Hate rumors)
1:42:17 - Games we are playing (Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Tomodachi Life, Resident Evil 8)
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| 0:00.0 | Today we are joined by our very good friend Sean, who used to work with us at Nintendo |
| 0:13.1 | on the retail team. |
| 0:15.7 | He's an expert on the retail stuff. |
| 0:20.0 | And he's going to come talk to us. |
| 0:21.2 | He's going to school us on all the stuff that's been going on about the price increases, |
| 0:26.8 | the price decreases, what's happening at the retailers, what's going on with these physical |
| 0:33.1 | games, what's going on with these components. |
| 0:35.8 | He has the info because we do not. |
| 0:38.1 | Former Nintendo employees are at it again. |
| 0:40.4 | Yes. |
| 0:40.7 | I have a feeling you're going to be seeing some excerpt from this show and pop up in some |
| 0:44.8 | headline. |
| 0:45.3 | Oh boy, here comes. |
| 0:46.3 | Here comes. |
| 0:46.7 | We know how this goes. |
| 0:48.4 | But Sean's been on the show before. |
| 0:50.0 | He was great. |
| 0:50.8 | He truly is an expert at all of this stuff. |
| 0:54.0 | And there's just so much happening in this area. |
| 0:56.6 | We kind of need to go to an expert to find out, like, what, what does this all actually |
| 1:02.3 | mean? |
| 1:02.7 | Because in addition to Nintendo's own game pricing, the price of PlayStation's is now through |
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