Nintendo has reiterated that it has “no plans” to lift the really helpful retail worth for Nintendo Change world wide.
The remark got here in response to a shareholder query, who had requested whether or not the corporate could be thought of given the depreciation of the yen.
“At present, there aren’t any plans to lift the value of our {hardware},” Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed on the firm’s six months monetary outcomes briefing. “Nevertheless, the yen has depreciated at an sudden stage for a protracted period, so we are going to fastidiously take into account as we monitor the state of affairs going ahead. It’s true that for Japan particularly, {hardware} profitability has decreased as a result of extended depreciation of the yen.
“How we view the consequences of inflation and different components stays unchanged. Whereas we consider there may be at the moment no main affect, we are going to proceed to watch varied components of our product gross sales.”
Earlier this 12 months, Furukawa had expressed a want to “need to keep away from pricing folks out” and that significance that the moveable house console’s pricing remained aggressive in opposition to different merchandise that buyers flip to for his or her leisure.