The latest Nintendo Switch commercial, starring Canadian actress Annie Murphy, appeared today on the YouTube channel YouTube. After publishing several commercials recently with various celebrities and actresses, such as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu for Japan and Brie Larson for the US, it seems that Nintendo has reached Murphy following the huge success of Schitt’s Creek, in which he plays in down her lucky husband, Alexis Rose.
In the commercial, Murphy plays Ring Fit Adventure, Clubhouse Games, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Just Dance 2021 – and doesn’t specifically use Nintendo’s voice chat service to play with friends.
But many people in the comments (and in our inbox!) Were more concerned The end of the video, where the following screen appears:
Given that the price on the Nintendo site is Switch at $ 300 and Switch Lite at $ 200, their concern seemed appropriate. Did Nintendo only increase the price by a hundred dollars ?!
Fortunately, this is not the case. It appears that the prices are in Canadian dollars, which are currently worth $ 0.78 in US dollars – which makes the price of CAD 400 to be approximately equivalent to 314 USD. So, yes, switches you more expensive, but only in Canada and not by much.
Although the ad doesn’t actually state that the dollar price is Canadian, the description of the video is linked to the Nintendo Canada website, Facebook page and Twitter profile – and, after all, Annie Murphy is Canadian herself. Is it Nintendo’s fault that the two currencies use exactly the same symbol?