{"id":119229,"date":"2020-10-12T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/10\/nintendo_is_permanently_reducing_the_price_of_switch_joy-con_in_japan"},"modified":"2020-10-12T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T12:30:00","slug":"nintendo-is-permanently-reducing-the-price-of-switch-joy-con-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/12\/nintendo-is-permanently-reducing-the-price-of-switch-joy-con-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Is Permanently Reducing The Price Of Switch Joy-Con In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/077826bf3282d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/077826bf3282d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Joy-Con\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/077826bf3282d\/joy-con.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/077826bf3282d\/joy-con.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Joy-Con\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Nintendo Life<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo has revealed that it will be permanently reducing the price of its Switch Joy-Con controllers in Japan, starting from next month.<\/p>\n<p>From 6th November, the price of a single Joy-Con controller will be revised from 4,480 yen + tax to 3,740 yen + tax, which is a drop of about 16.5%. The price reduction will apply to single Joy-Con products only, meaning Switch owners will still pay the same, regular price for a complete pack of two (thanks, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/japanesenintendo.com\/2020\/10\/12\/nintendo-to-reduce-joy-con-price\/\">Japanese Nintendo<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Users in Japan can buy Grey, Neon Red, Neon Blue, Neon Yellow, Neon Green, Red, and Neon Pink Joy-Con from the country&#8217;s <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/hardware\/switch\/accessories\/joycon_single.html\">official store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, then, we can&#8217;t help but wonder whether or not a similar pricing restructure will arrive here in the west. Could we be about to see a permanent reduction in price across Europe and the US, or will this remain a Japan-only deal?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re sure a drop in price would be well received, especially with all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/tags\/joy--con-drift\">Joy-Con drift<\/a> issues we&#8217;ve been seeing, but feel free to have your say in the comments below. Do you think we&#8217;ll see a price drop soon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Nintendo Life Nintendo has revealed that it will be permanently reducing the price of its Switch Joy-Con controllers in Japan, starting from next month. From 6th November, the price of a single Joy-Con controller will be revised from 4,480 yen + tax to 3,740 yen + tax, which is a drop of about 16.5%. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}