Nintendo is the Kyoto video-game company behind Switch and Switch 2 hardware, and Google Shopping interest for that keyword printed 47 the week of October 17 2026. Same-day get_growth on google shopping, pulled October 19 2026, reads +11.9% over 7 days (42 to 47) and +30.56% over 30 days (36 to 47), with +80.77% over 1 year from 26 on October 18 2025. The 261-week get_time_series on that source runs from October 23 2021 through October 17 2026 and peaked at 100 on November 27 2021. Google Search for nintendo printed 41 the same week, flat from 41 and down 22.64% from 53, a query that fails the 30-day bar. 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 dedicated-hardware table, as of June 30 2026, puts lifetime Switch hardware at 156.59 million units and Switch 2 hardware at 23.68 million, with 58.17 million Switch 2 software units. Variety, dated May 8 2026, said the United States Switch 2 price would rise to $499.99 on September 1, a $50 step from the launch ticket, with Japan moving to 59,980 yen on May 25. Google Trends by Category Games as of 2026-10-19T04:01:34Z listed the legend of zelda at rank 12 and did not list nintendo in the top 25. The cart is hardware and first-party games. PS5 Pro is the other console shopping page on this site.
What the time series shows
Google Shopping interest for nintendo printed 47 the week of October 17 2026, up from 42 on October 10 and 36 on September 19, a 13-week cart climb off a July 18 trough of 23 that still sits 53 percent under the November 27 2021 peak of 100.
Last eight weekly prints are 39, 42, 48, 36, 37, 33, 42, and 47. Closest 30-day point is 36 on September 19 (+30.56%). Closest 90-day point is 23 on July 18 (+104.35%). Same-week 2025 printed 26 and 2024 printed 32. Switch 2 launch week printed 66 on June 7 2025, then 72 on June 14, then 38 by June 27. Spring 2026 had a smaller bulge: 56 on March 28, 64 on April 25, 70 on May 16. Holiday 2025 printed 59 on December 27. The recent 30-day absolute change is 11 points (36 to 47) against a prior 30-day change of 8 points (28 on August 15 to 36). The chart window starts October 19 2024 at 32.
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-October climb after the November 27 2021 peak of 100.
That source printed 47 on October 17, up 11.9% from 42 over 7 days and up 30.56% from 36 over 30 days, with week-over-week population standard deviation 12.59% across the full non-zero-baseline sample. Google Search for nintendo is 41 on October 17, flat from 41 on October 10 and down 22.64% from 53 on September 19, with estimated volume 3,080,000. Search fails both mover bars. Same-day Google Shopping neighbors: playstation 5 50 (+85.19% over 30 days from 27), fortnite 25 (+56.25% from 16), xbox series s 53 (+51.43% from 35), ps5 pro 55 (+44.74% from 38), nintendo switch 42 (+35.48% from 31), xbox series x 42 (+31.25% from 32), steam deck 10 (+11.11% from 9). 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 2021-10-23 through 2026-10-17 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: 42 to 47 (+11.9%), 36 to 47 (+30.56%), and 26 to 47 (+80.77%). Mixing the Google Search 41 with the Shopping 47 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.