Nintendo is the Kyoto video-game company behind Switch and Switch 2 hardware, and Google Shopping interest for that keyword printed 46 the week of September 12 2026. Same-day get_growth on google shopping, pulled September 13 2026, reads +17.95% over 7 days (39 to 46) and +64.29% over 30 days (28 to 46), with +58.62% over 1 year from 29 on September 13 2025. The 261-week get_time_series on that source runs from September 18 2021 through September 12 2026 and peaked at 100 on December 30 2023. Google Search for nintendo printed 70 the same week, up 66.67% from 42, a Direct-week query spike. Shopping is the cart climb off a July trough of 23.
About nintendo
Nintendo is the Kyoto video-game company Fusajiro Yamauchi founded on September 23 1889 as a hanafuda card maker, and shoppers now look up that name for Switch 2 hardware after the June 5 2025 launch at $449.99 in the United States.
Wikipedia records the Nintendo Switch launch in March 2017 and more than 150 million Switch units shipped as of December 2024. Nintendo's United States site, dated April 2 2025, priced Switch 2 at $449.99 and the Mario Kart World bundle at $499.99. On June 10 2025 Nintendo reported more than 3.5 million Switch 2 units sold worldwide. A Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on September 8 2026 dated the Ocarina of Time remake for Switch 2 at November 5 2026, $59.99 digital and $69.99 physical, per Gematsu. The cart is hardware and first-party games. PS5 Pro is the other late-summer console shopping page on this site.
What the time series shows
Google Shopping interest for nintendo printed 46 the week of September 12 2026, up from 39 on September 5 and 28 on August 15, a seven-week cart climb off a July 18 trough of 23 that still sits 54 percent under the December 30 2023 peak of 100.
Last eight weekly prints are 23, 25, 27, 28, 38, 39, 39, and 46. Closest 30-day point is 28 on August 15 (+64.29%). Closest 90-day point is 43 on June 13 (+6.98%). Same-week 2025 printed 29, 2024 printed 26, and 2023 printed 34. Switch 2 launch week printed 70 on June 7 2025, then 48 by June 28. Spring 2026 had a smaller bulge: 51 on March 28, 61 on April 25, 69 on May 16. Holiday 2025 printed 57 on December 27. The recent 30-day absolute change is 18 points (28 to 46) against a prior 30-day change of 2 points (26 on July 11 to 28). The chart window starts September 14 2024.
Why the page charts Google Shopping
A console people buy should be tracked on a shopping source first, and Google Shopping for nintendo is the series that still clears the 30-day +25% bar and the 1-year +15% bar with a readable July-into-September climb after the December 30 2023 peak of 100.
That source printed 46 on September 12, up 17.95% from 39 over 7 days and up 64.29% from 28 over 30 days, with last-52 week-over-week sample standard deviation 13.13% across 52 changes. Google Search for nintendo is 70 on September 12, up 66.67% from 42 on September 5 and up 42.86% from 49 on August 15, after get_top_trends on Google Trends as of 2026-09-13T04:01:37Z listed nintendo at rank 15, nintendo direct at rank 21, and ocarina of time remake at rank 23. Search is the Direct week. Amazon for nintendo printed 18.2 on August 31, flat over 30 days from 18.2 on July 31 and down 32.84% from 27.1 a year earlier, so the native store index is not the mover. Shopping category get_top_trends as of 2026-09-13T04:01:37Z listed nintendo sale at rank 5. Same-day Google Shopping neighbors: ps5 pro 30 (+114.29% over 30 days from 14), nintendo switch 36 (+63.64% from 22), playstation 43 (+48.28% from 29), xbox series x 34 (+47.83% from 23), steam deck 8 (+33.33% from 6). Console context: Xbox Series X. Source context: Google Shopping trends.
The Trends MCP calls for this keyword
get_time_series with source google shopping and keyword nintendo is the call behind the chart, returning 261 weekly points from 2021-09-18 through 2026-09-12 stored as {date, value} with no smoothing, which is the only series this page is allowed to quote. get_growth on the same pair, windows 7D, 30D, and 1Y, is the headline math: 39 to 46 (+17.95%), 28 to 46 (+64.29%), and 29 to 46 (+58.62%). Mixing the Google Search 70 with the Shopping 46 would invent a story the APIs do not tell.
A copy-paste pair for Claude or Cursor:
get_time_series source="google shopping" keyword="nintendo"
get_growth source="google shopping" keyword="nintendo" percent_growth=["7D","30D","1Y"]
REST is the same body at https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api with Authorization: Bearer and mode set to get_time_series or get_growth.