Nintendo is drawing a line under Switch 2 pricing. President Shuntaro Furukawa said on the company's latest earnings call that Nintendo is "not considering additional changes" to the console's price, according to Reuters via The Verge.

The reassurance comes with context Nintendo would rather not have: Switch 2 sales fell 41% compared with the same period last year, a decline Tom's Hardware ties directly to the console's price increase — a $50 hike that tested how much premium the market would bear. The answer, at least in the short term, appears to be: less than Nintendo hoped.

Investors are responding by pushing on the other lever. With hardware pricing now frozen, pressure is mounting on Nintendo to ship more big first-party games to reignite demand and make up the shortfall. It's the oldest dynamic in the console business — when the hardware price can't move down, the software slate has to do the selling.

The commitment to price stability at least removes one uncertainty for holiday shoppers. Whether it's enough to reverse a 41% slide will depend less on the earnings call and more on what Nintendo puts on shelves next.