flipping the pricing switch “Changes in market conditions” lead to $50 price bump on Sept. 1. You might want to tone down the outward excitement given today's pricing announcement, Mario... Credit: Kyle Orland These now-routine price increases are a marked change from a decades-long period where game consoles routinely and quickly dropped in price in the years after their launch. Even before recent component shortages, though, a combination of higher-than-normal inflation , the slowing of Moore’s Law , tariff-related market shocks , and spiking gas prices have made the once-reliable console price drop a fading market memory. In updated financial forecasts also released today, Nintendo cited “the impact of these price revisions” in projecting sales of 16.5 million Switch 2 units in the current fiscal year (ending March 2027).…