Nintendo has reiterated that it has “no plans” to boost the really helpful retail worth for Nintendo Change around the globe.
The remark got here in response to a shareholder query, who had requested whether or not the corporate can be thought-about given the depreciation of the yen.
“Presently, there are not any plans to boost the value of our {hardware},” Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed on the firm’s six months monetary outcomes briefing. “Nonetheless, the yen has depreciated at an surprising degree for a protracted period, so we’ll rigorously contemplate as we monitor the scenario going ahead. It’s true that for Japan particularly, {hardware} profitability has decreased because of the extended depreciation of the yen.
“How we view the results of inflation and different elements stays unchanged. Whereas we consider there may be at the moment no main influence, we’ll proceed to observe varied elements of our product gross sales.”
Earlier this 12 months, Furukawa had expressed a need to “wish to keep away from pricing individuals out” and that significance that the transportable residence console’s pricing remained aggressive towards different merchandise that customers flip to for his or her leisure.