Switch 2 Prices Rise, Forecast Drops - DTNS 5265
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, May 8th, 2026. |
| 0:09.4 | We tell you what you need to know, give you all the important context, and help each other understand. |
| 0:14.9 | Today, Sony and Nintendo share what's up with their consoles in the shadow of the memory crunch. |
| 0:21.5 | Memory crunch. |
| 0:22.7 | Kind of sounds like a cereal. |
| 0:24.5 | It does. |
| 0:25.2 | Memory crunch. |
| 0:26.5 | Mmm, yummy. |
| 0:27.7 | Filled with chips. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm Jason Howell. |
| 0:29.6 | I put it down. |
| 0:31.2 | Let's start with what you need to know with a big heaping bowl of big story. |
| 0:37.8 | And whether you pour regular milk on top of it or almond milk, that's your choice, |
| 0:43.4 | whatever you prefer. |
| 0:44.9 | Nintendo raising Switch 2's price in its only its second year, right? |
| 0:51.1 | The console is not that old at this point. |
| 0:53.7 | While warning during its |
| 0:55.4 | earnings call that its hardware sales and profits are set to fall because of the impact of |
| 1:01.8 | rising memory costs, Nintendo plans to raise the Switch 2's US price by $50. So it's not major, |
| 1:09.2 | but you know, notable. So that's going to cost $500 starting |
| 1:12.8 | September 1st. So you have time. If you're in Japan, you don't have a whole lot of time. |
| 1:19.2 | They're getting a 10,000 yen hike going into effect on May 25th. So, you know, 20 days, 19 days from now. |
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