{"id":12368,"date":"2016-11-15T09:22:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T09:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=12368"},"modified":"2016-11-15T09:22:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T09:22:11","slug":"did-nintendo-just-reveal-the-price-of-the-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/did-nintendo-just-reveal-the-price-of-the-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Nintendo just reveal the price of the Switch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You can thank Toys R Us for this leak\u2026<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reporter: Joseph Carey | Sub-Editor: Jack Leslie<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Although Nintendo has stated they wouldn&#8217;t be revealing any further information about the Nintendo Switch until next year, it appears the Canadian arm of Toys R Us believes the system is going to launch for $329.99 CAD or roughly \u00a3200 for us in the UK. Not as bad as we all thought when we saw the reveal!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12373\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2016\/11\/toysrus_switch_price.png\" alt=\"toysrus_switch_price\" width=\"1045\" height=\"881\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">If this price point is to be believed it\u2019s going to place the system in an extremely competitive position &#8211; sitting alongside the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, which go for around \u00a3250 each. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/wccftech.com\/nintendo-switch-price-listed-canadian-toysrus\/\"><span class=\"s2\">leaked listing<\/span><\/a> from Toys R Us also lines up with a further report from <a href=\"http:\/\/letsplayvideogames.com\/2016\/11\/report-uk-retailer-game-to-price-nintendo-switch-from-199-99\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Let&#8217;s Play Video Games<\/span><\/a> that claims retailer GAME will be selling the system for \u00a3199.99 with a second model featuring with more internal storage and presumably a game bundled in for \u00a3249.99.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12370\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12370\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12370\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2016\/11\/Nintendo.jpg\" alt=\"epa05443301 A statue of Nintendo Co.'s video game character Super Mario stands at the company's showroom in Tokyo, Japan, 27 July 2016. Nintendo Co. reported a fiscal first quarter loss of 24.53 billion yen (232.1 million US dollars) in spite of the global success of the Pokemon Go game, which the company holds a 32 percent stake in Pokemon Co. who jointly developed the augmented-reality game with Niantic Inc.  EPA\/KIYOSHI OTA\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EPA\/KIYOSHI OTA<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Nintendo\u2019s previous console, the Wii U, was priced at \u00a3250 and was sold at a loss due to profits being made on the software sold after the hardware was in people\u2019s hands. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">However the company <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.ign.com\/articles\/2016\/05\/02\/nintendo-wont-sell-nx-at-a-loss\"><span class=\"s2\">previously stated<\/span><\/a> it wouldn&#8217;t be selling the Switch at a loss, implying the manufacturing costs of this device are significantly cheaper than that of the Wii U. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Nintendo won\u2019t be giving further details about their upcoming console until January. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can thank Toys R Us for this leak\u2026 Reporter: Joseph Carey | Sub-Editor: Jack Leslie Although Nintendo has stated they wouldn&#8217;t be revealing any further information about the Nintendo Switch until next year, it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":12369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,121],"tags":[4494,6038,6060],"class_list":["post-12368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-tech","tag-nintendo","tag-switch","tag-tag1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}