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No, This Nintendo Ad Didn't Raise The Price Of The Switch - It's Just Canadian - Nintendo Life

No, This Nintendo Ad Didn't Raise The Price Of The Switch - It's Just Canadian - Nintendo Life

No, This Nintendo Ad Didn't Raise The Price Of The Switch - It's Just Canadian - Nintendo Life
Jan 25, 2021 3 mins, 45 secs

The latest Nintendo Switch ad, featuring Canadian actress Annie Murphy, went up today on the Nintendo YouTube channel.

Having published a few adverts lately featuring various celebs and actresses, like Kyary Pamyu Pamyu for Japan, and Brie Larson for the US, it seems like Nintendo reached out to Murphy following the huge success of Schitt's Creek, in which she plays down-on-her-luck socialite, Alexis Rose.

Considering that the price on the Nintendo website has the Switch at $300 and the Switch Lite at $200, their concern seemed appropriate.

Did Nintendo just raise the price by a hundred dollars?.

It would seem that the prices are in Canadian dollars, which are currently worth $0.78 in US dollars - which makes that 400 CAD price roughly equivalent to 314 USD.

So, yes, Switches are more expensive, but only in Canada, and not by much.

Although the advert doesn't actually state that the dollar price is Canadian, the description of the video links to Nintendo Canada's website, Facebook page, and Twitter profile - and, after all, Annie Murphy is Canadian herself!

She moved to Canada a few years ago, but gets tea imported from England, because she has good priorities!

Geordies must've colonised Canada you can hear it in their strange accent.

Poor Canada.

that's the price of the Switch in Canada?

It should have read as "399$" and not "$399" (that's how American prices are advertised versus Canadian prices usually here in Canada!).

I thought it was a French vs English thing!

Our Canadian prices are nuts.

@KillTheG1mp I've lived in Canada for 3 years and I did not know that!

@badawik You are right, it is a French vs English thing.

Canadian prices are $### for all provinces by standard except Quebec where it is ###$, as that is how money is described in French (I'm from AB).

@pixelpatch I definitely pay less rent in Canada than I did in London, but...

@KillTheG1mp That's mostly not true as we in Canada have the $ at the beginning unless the price is being displayed in French, where it goes at the end.

If you're from Quebec then I guess this would seem normal, but pretty much everywhere in Canada, $399 is the proper way?

Prices are always higher in Canada, even a few years back when the Canadian dollar was stronger than the US dollar the gaming systems still cost more.

Ah yes the Canadian prices, this is why I roll my eyes at comments talking about paying $60 for games, I would happily pay that over $90 (after taxes) for first party Nintendo games?

Thankfully a lot of other non first party Switch games, are at a lower price so there's at least that.

Basically why I rarely buy anything from Nintendo anymore 😆 I just don’t feel awesome about games costing just shy of $100.00 a pop after taxes!

It seems like just yesterday that I remember handheld games being $39.99.

I play the Switch handheld but that ain’t the price no more?

@StevenG $79.99 before taxes, at least when I picked up Hyrule Warriors (last first party Nintendo game I phurchased).

A full price game in the UK would be about $87 there

@NinChocolate Every crafty Canadian Switch owner does, indeed

@IronMan30 $90/game (soon to be $100/game thanks to next-gen bumping the game prices up) adds up a lot faster than $60($70 for next-gen)/game

Either way, as long as Nintendo puts out games that interest me, I'll most likely continue buying them

Here in Ontario, all prices I see have the $ in front

I’m from Toronto and buy from the Alberta Eshop

That's a difference between French Canadian and English Canadian standards

In French Canada the Dollar sign goes after the number, in English Canada it goes before

Thus the prices on the games being what they are

I don't expect prices to change any time soon either

Prices will hover at that 80 for new games mark for a long while yet

Glad to see most Canadians using Alberta for the eShop

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