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Nintendo Switch 2 sales plunge 41% as price hikes and memory crunch bite
Sales of Nintendo's flagship Switch 2 plunged in its fiscal second quarter after the Japanese gaming giant rolled out price hikes amid soaring memory costs.
What the coverage shows
All four outlets focus on Nintendo and the Switch 2, but they frame the news differently. The Verge alone leads on Nintendo saying it is not planning another price hike, while CNBC, Engadget, and Tom's Hardware instead foreground weak Switch 2 sales and connect them to earlier price increases. CNBC also adds memory costs, and Tom's Hardware alone mentions investors pressing Nintendo for more big games.
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