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What the weak yen might mean for Switch 2 pricing

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Nintendo president Shintaro Furukawa says the Switch 2 will not be changed in price.

He says the yen's exchange rate has changed significantly since the launch of the Switch in 2017 .

Today , a single dollar could get you about 114 Japanese yen , a rate broadly in line with the norm over the previous two decades .

That same dollar can get you over 152 yen , matching rates the world hasn't seen since 1990 .

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