Nintendo Switch 2 will only be available in the blocked region of Japanese stores, it has been revealed.
Probably in an effort to fight foreign resellers who seek to take advantage of the weak Yen, Nintendo on Wednesday that a 2 ‘Japanese/National’ Switch version will be the only Switch 2 console available to buy general retailers.
The ‘National’ ‘console is sold at a cheaper price (49,980 yen, or $ 334) and will only have Japanese as a language environment of the console, and the only Nintendo account that can be linked will be created with the country/region environment established in Japan.
A more expensive switch model with multilingual support, with a price of 69,980 yen ($ 467), will be available to buy only in the Japanese store My Nintendo.
The resale has become an important problem in Japan, with the president of Nintendo, Shutaro Furukawa, recently declaring that the company would take measures to combat it with its next console.
Dr. Serkan Toto, CEO of the Tokyo -based games industry consultant, Kantan Games, told VGC that most Japanese consumers would probably not be disturbed by the region’s blocked switch.
“Nintendo is an extremely important market for Nintendo, today more than ever in its history. The current change is only 33,000 yen in Japan, the equivalent of US $ 220.
“That means that Nintendo will return to ‘subsidize’ to Japanese users with the national version of the Switch 2 to make sure they continue to dominate the market here.
“The vast majority of Japanese users do not care about multilingual hardware, so the price of the international version is inconsequential.”
