{"id":90807,"date":"2019-03-26T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/rumours_of_new_switch_models_cause_nintendos_share_price_to_significantly_rise"},"modified":"2019-03-26T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:45:00","slug":"rumours-of-new-switch-models-cause-nintendos-share-price-to-significantly-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/26\/rumours-of-new-switch-models-cause-nintendos-share-price-to-significantly-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumours Of New Switch Models Cause Nintendo&#8217;s Share Price To Significantly Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1de901a0a3f8b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1de901a0a3f8b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Switch\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1de901a0a3f8b\/switch.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1de901a0a3f8b\/switch.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Switch\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Yesterday, we shared a report from the Wall Street Journal which states that Nintendo is planning to release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/rumour_nintendo_is_releasing_two_new_versions_of_switch_this_year\">two new Switch models<\/a> later this year. These claims haven&#8217;t been confirmed or commented on by Nintendo itself, but the company has seen a significant share price rise as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The report suggests that both a cheaper model, with some key features taken away, and a more expensive device which will have \u201cenhanced features targeted at avid video gamers&#8221; are on the way. Investors seem to like the sound of these hypothetical consoles, with Nintendo&#8217;s shares climbing as much as 6.8% in response &#8211; the largest increase Nintendo has seen in a single day since last August, according to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloombergquint.com\/business\/nintendo-shares-climb-after-report-of-two-new-switch-models#gs.33270u\">BloombergQuint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Nintendo's share price over the last five days\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/33ca3f39ec93f\/nintendos-share-price-over-the-last-five-days.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/33ca3f39ec93f\/nintendos-share-price-over-the-last-five-days.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo's share price over the last five days\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">via Google<\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">Nintendo&#8217;s share price over the last five days<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you missed it earlier, we&#8217;ve already discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/talking_point_theres_room_for_a_switch_family_if_nintendo_nails_the_messaging\">our thoughts on the report<\/a> in depth, essentially coming to the conclusion that new Switch models could be welcomed &#8211; and do very well for Nintendo &#8211; as long as they&#8217;re released with clear marketing and are different enough to the standard console to warrant their existence.<\/p>\n<p>If Nintendo does release two new systems &#8211; or even just the one, really &#8211; 2019 could well be yet another crucial, exciting year.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EAPlesroa5c?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Do you think these hypothetical new Switch models would be a smart move for Nintendo? Do you think investors are right to be excited? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we shared a report from the Wall Street Journal which states that Nintendo is planning to release two new Switch models later this year. These claims haven&#8217;t been confirmed or commented on by Nintendo itself, but the company has seen a significant share price rise as a result. The report suggests that both a [&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-90807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90807","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=90807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}