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This is a large price rise in domestic (Japanese) markets, with a small rise in other countries. This is impacting Japanese consumers the most.

Nintendo is a very Japanese-centric, proud company. For those not aware, Nintendo has been avoiding repricing domestically until now by selling a "Japanese-only Switch" locked to Japan in order to prevent foreign arbitrage. But the currency pressure is too strong.

It totally depends on if you need to import things to transform them or if you source mostly locally in your supply chain.

The thing is dependent on imported RAM. The flip side of this.. have you seen SK Hynix stock price lately?

You’ll notice they raised prices in Japan by A Lot, but the US price is only up $50.

Uuuuuuh, ¥10,000 is currently about $64, so it's not that much different to be calling it "a lot".

The price is increasing by 20% in Japan and 11% in the US, so the price increase in Japan is nearly double the increase in the US.