The Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series X/S Are Likely Due for a Price Increase Following the PS5, PS5 Pro Hike, Says Analyst

Earlier today, PlayStation confirmed that it would be increasing the price of the PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal, after a leak from a French retailer tipped off that the change would happen just yesterday. Now, according to Ampere Analysis analyst Piers Harding-Rolls, hardware increases in games are not done there. We should expect to see increases from Microsoft and Nintendo in the future as well, which would be the first Nintendo Switch 2 price increase and the third Xbox Series X/S price increase.

Speaking to Eurogamer, Harding-Rolls, while reacting to the price increases this morning, said, “The supply chain shock of the elongated increase in memory and storage prices – both essential for console hardware – means that there is some inevitability to the PlayStation hardware price increases announced by Sony today. It is likely that Sony had price protections for its components for a set period and this may well have come to an…