Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’

Trump threatens Nintendo with tariffs
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Nintendo doesn't call
Trump cancels tariff, invites Nintendo CEO to lunch
MAGA applauds Trump for saving America from something or other

With innocent people being illegally abducted and wrongfully deported to El Salvador, I am astounded that there is so much concern about the Nintendo Switch 2. Seriously people!! Where are the priorities? WTF?!
- Like it or not (I do not), the most important determining factor in American elections is people's feelings about the economy. The horrors being done by our government are easy to turn a blind eye to. But the cost of living is something that can't be avoided or suppressed.
  Economic ruin is how we beat these motherfuckers.
- My understanding is this has been the price of thousands of gaming communities enacting a “No politics” rule - people want to keep it external.
  “This fucking piece of actual trash! He’s using the most broken character this game has ever put out, and trash talking over it like he’s ever fucked a woman. Literally eat a dick. What do you think, chat?…Oh. Holy shit. Sorry, I just saw some stuff about Trump, listen, I’m sorry, but we don’t talk politics here. It can get really toxic.”
- If the past few years have taught me ANYTHING, it's that at least half the "gamers" are cheering the deportations on, so uh, yeah, anyway...
- Some non-zero percent of people think the trafficking is fake news. Harder to disbelieve a cost you pay yourself.
  Others might think it's normal deportation of undesirables. Harder to ignore something that affects you and yours.
- You think gamers care about that 💀
- "But that only effects those people... What about me!?"
- How does people being wrongfully deported to El Salvador relate to a gaming community?
  
  You'll find that out when they come deport you.

That's fine. Nintendo was already planning to impose the Nintendo tax. So I imposed the "I ain't buyin' this shit tax".
- Wondering how this is going to play out. A Switch for $600+ is borderline insane.
  
  Hopefully gamers get together and protest Trump out of office for artificially bumping up the costs of goods.
  Tarrifs = Tax
  A tax that working people pay, in the country that set the tarriff.
  
  I don't even want to imagine what is going to be the price for it here in Brazil. After the ps4 launched for nearly $2000 I haven't even looked at any console retail prices here again.
  
  145% of 450 is 652, you add those together and it’s essentially 1100$. And that’s before tax at the register in the US.
  
  Lol. That 600+ is JUST the extra tax. That's on top of the base price
  
  Yeah I didn’t wanna pay that for a PS5. And the PS5 GPU alone is likely 5 times more power then what’s rumored to be in the switch 2… no way I’m paying that for a switch.
  
  They already crossed the border!
  
  They will just put the games at 100 each, not including DLC
- Thanks Trump for adding a 145% "tax" on my electronics. How am I supposed to afford anything now!?
  Guess I may as well just go protest instead.
  
  Thanks half the voting country too. You got neighbors who asked for this.
- I wasn't going to get one even if it was £20, but how? Trump set the tariffs. Obviously it's going to cost a shitload more if there is a 145% tariff in the US.

Nintendo: "We also had to raise the price of digital games to $200."
"But tariffs don't apply to digital games."
Nintendo: "Ah, yeah. Well, whenever you notice something like that, tariffs did it."
"But why does the rest of the world have to pay the price, too?"
Nintendo: "TARIFFS!"
- You‘re joking about it. I can hear the faint beeping of some LLM waiting to serve this to someone in power.
  
  Tangential but was at the hospital for an Endo appointment with my son and chuckled in our waiting room "I bet there's an old white guy in a suit right now going 'but what if we made these waiting rooms smaller?'"
  Note. Room was already small.

If Nintendo sues the Trump admin I'd have to finally side with Nintendo on a lawsuit.
- i didn't think I'll ever see those sequence of words

for the US
- its nintendo, im sure they’re going to find some way to raise the price for everyone else too
  
  I mean, yeah, Sony just did it with its ps5
  
  Haven't they already announced the price?
- In future history books: “…But the biggest exodus from the United States was after it was announced the Switch 2 would cost $1000 exclusively there.”
  
  The price was going to be $499. A 145% tariff makes the price $1222.55. A 100% tariff would double the price and this is more than 100%.
  Looks like pretty steep inflation fueled by tariffs. I wonder how the Denies Reality Party (DeRPs) will spin it.

Sony: we‘ll make it a little more expensive for everyone else, so no one feels left out <3
Nintendo: t(°-°t)
- What you meant to say was
  \ Sony: we'll let the whole world pay for the fascist bullshit the US is pulling <3
  
  Let me fix that for you:
  Sony: we'll let the whole world pay astronomical amounts of money because it makes us rich! And if someone calls us on it, we'll say it's all because of the US!
- Sony: we‘ll make it a little more expensive for everyone else, so no one feels left out
  Let me fix that for you:
  Sony: We‘ll make it a little more expensive for everyone else so our US sales don't sink harder than a brick in a pond.
  Companies really don't care about people feeling left out. Company's fear loss of sales. And that Trumps senseless antics by proxy of Sony make the PlayStation more expensive in my end of the world low key aggravates me, even if it's only 50 bucks.
  America voted for this, we didn't.
  
  The saddest part is America didn't vote for this either. Hell, most Americans didn't vote at all... Absolutely stupid? Welcome to the US!
- Will be hard with the preorders already out.

Only 4.125% of the world population is affected. No biggy.
- Delusional. They are going to spread that cost over everyone
  
  If they tried to spread the cost amongst everyone no one would buy the switch is already borderline unreasonably expensive. Limiting the price increase to only the tariffed country means they'll only lose out on the American market not the everyone else in the world market, which is bigger.
  
  If the tariff is too great the cost becomes unspreadable. Spreading cost requires other regions to still afford the new price, and with numbers like this that's unlikely.
  About one-third of Switches were sold in the US. Spreading a 145% tariff means hiking everyone's prices by 40-50%. That will murder sales in other regions.
  Better to eat a 30% temporary loss that adds pressure on Trump to reverse-course than to eat an even higher loss and face backlash worldwide for making others pay for Trumps idiocy.

On Americans only? Right? 😟
- I would assume so, yea. They had stopped pre-orders in the US only when the tariffs were announced.

Atleast this will radicalize the youth.

I wasn't going to buy it anyway with those prices
- It could be $50 and I still won’t buy it.
  Nintendo sucks and so do their games.
  PC gaming for life! Oh and steam deck 😊
  
  I mean, hating on Nintendo is a good idea, but their games distinctly do not suck (at least most of them). They only suck in so far as you have to pay Nintendo in some form to legally acquire and play them.
  
  Nintendo games are excellent games. Some of the highest quality games among AAA studios. What sucks is Nintendo as a company
  
  It would be worth it if it cost $50. Of course it never would cost $50.
  It would be worth it if it cost the same as the first switch and if the games weren't so expensive. There is a price point at which it is actually a good value product, but it's so far beyond that price point now, even without tariffs.

These tariffs shouldn't be 145% of the retail price, they should be 145% of the wholesale price.
- Well you see...
  "never let a good tragedy go to waste"
  some asshole I don't care to look up

Truly proof that gamers are the most oppressed people, its so joever /s

I’ll probably be able to play the games on my pc soon enough anyway

I'm going to save so much money by not going to the US to buy one of those... I wonder what I'll do with all that wealth.

- And there are those who have it even harder than YOU. Everyone's station in life is different. They are allowed to experience that.
  If they are being insensitive to your concerns, then maybe they are not a good friend, but it sounds like you're the one insensitive to their concerns. You can both have different concerns.
  Also this is literally a Switch post in a gaming community amd you self selected this complaint in here. It's telling.
  
  And there are those who have it even harder than YOU. Everyone's station in life is different. They are allowed to experience that.
  I've never understand the logic of the people who espouse that line of thinking. Is only the one single person alive who has it the literal worst out of all the billions of living human beings allowed to feel bad, and everyone else is obliged to look at them and say "well it could technically be worse so I guess I'm not allowed to feel bad"?
- This is an odd place to put this complaint. You clicked on a post about the Switch. Make a post about struggling with money and the discussion should focus on that instead.
- And if you go to Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Congo, people are worried about losing limbs, life and actual stage 1 Maslow survival. They probably envy your problems right now. They keep focused on shit that actually matters, like not dying.
  Yeah, people care about different things related to their circumstances. That's life.
  
  I think the takeaway is "The Nintendo Switch 2 isn't the thing you should be pissed about when these tariffs are going to cause a lot more problems for way more people."
- I'm sorry to hear about your situation - I'm in a somewhat similar financial position myself - but people are people, and in any income bracket there are things to be concerned about.
  For you and me, it's getting enough money to eat. For someone else, it is affording a Switch. For others, it's the rise in the price of caviar forcing them into cheaper options.
  Interestingly enough, all of this causes a significant amount of stress, and should you eventually get more money to spare, then after a brief euphoria you'll have the same worries about Switch prices and other things you don't seem to care about now.
  In any case, I wish you all the best and hope you'll find your way out of a situation. Hope your spouse gets the surgery and becomes able to work, you have your teeth, and everyone lives a bit happier going forward.
- Then why are you getting angry while checking this sub and this post? Seems like you're also getting worked up over it.
  I'm sorry you're in a bad situation, I get it, I'm also not in a situation where I could even buy the switch 2 even if I wanted to. But this is a big deal, the USA have fucked themselves up in the ass so hard that people outside of it might get hit with it. The price of the switch 2 is just one of the tips of this iceberg, the price of the PS5 is another, but in a short while the same thing will start to happen to lots of electronics, including hospital ones, which could increase the price for everyone depending on how this plays out.
  Unfortunately for the rest of us the US is a BIG extremely consumer market, and if they get taken off the picture the profit margin decreases and prices need to hike to keep up.
- Noone is disagreeing with your concerns. They are disagreeing with your selfrighteous stance that your problems are the most important.
  \ Using a switch gaming thread for self pity is some major narcissism red flag.