realistically

Dude must work in sales. That is an optimistic lead time.

And he already sold it to the customer without checking with product support of course
- Oh my gods I feel this as someone who works in production.
Yeah, this is absolutely delusional.
Even... if all the tariff insanity weren't going on, even if Trump had lost the election...
The answer to this question is right, if you add about an order of magnitude.
20 to 30 months, ie, about 1.5 to 2.5 years.
And that is arguably still an optimistic time frame, and just... waves away all the 'would it actually make sense to do this' considerations.

Nintendo aren't going to move to America to get away from tariffs because they don't care. Their audience will buy the switch anyway, regardless of its price point and regardless of how much of that price point is affected by tariffs.

Also no company is going to move to America because of these tariffs because the Trump administration flip flops on an hourly basis. Who knows what policy will be next month let alone in 4 years time.

Even if they moved the factory into the US, wouldn't they still need to import all the parts, and get hit by tariffs on those parts anyway? Like, the whole supply chain would have to move into the US. That could be a decade worth of effort.

Man, Nintendo literally only recently finally integrated the ability to use voice chat into their system, after almost everyone else has been doing it for 15 years or so at this point.

And you think they can move everything in 2 to 3 months???

Is 2 to 3 months too little or too much?!?! - MAGA supporter
Xbox had voice chat back in 2002. 23 years ago.
- Well there you go!

Even if Nintendo moved final assembly to the US (which they won't), they'd still likely need to import the components they don't manufacture themselves like the screen, battery, memory chips, SoC and what not, which then again would be tarrifed.

Tarriffic!
One r two fs
- tarfifed*
Screen? China
Battery? Korea
Memory? China
No tariffs between China and Japan

2-3 months is enough time to form a committee and establish the metrics that an acceptable plan would have to meet.

Sorry your plan failed at form a committee.
You forgot to form a committee to decide who's on the committee.
- This is Japan we're talking about. I believe they require multiple late-night "socializing" meetings to figure out exactly what's going to happen. Then they just have a series of meetings to formalize what they decided on beforehand.

Nintendo moving production to USA in 2-3 months? Only by USA invading Japan and adding it as 51st state lol

Not even that, the processor, electrical components. Maybe the screen? All sourced globally. Like a big spider web.
Even if they drop billions to tape the chip out again, and move to Intel (heh), the chip production isn’t movable even in a decade. Intel's fabs are all over the planet.
Way cheaper to just eat the tax and mark the Switch 2 up 50% in the US, then let the smugglers do their thing.

I could get it done tomorrow

Elect me and I'll do it in 24h.
- I'd prefer you spend the first 24 hours on peace in Ukraine or Gaza. Maybe save this for day 2?
So you're the one that outbids me in all my proposals.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present your average american.

Building a basic factory is up to 2 years, depending on size, then you have to recruit all kinds of workers, many of which might not be readily available in a short notice of time, and might require college education. Manufacturing isn't just driving in the screws on an iPhone (which is more like glued together).

This is all assuming they'll use all US components, which are available, and at least higher-end US made capacitors are on the same level as their Japanese counterparts. The issue would be scope. Don't know what happened to that TSMC factory after Trump axing the CHIPS act. However, that "all American" Nintendo Switch 2 would cost a small fortune, and would be needed to be made much longer lasting that otherwise, since it's now incompatible with the notion of cheap and short lived products, which those on the top wouldn't approve.

by the way this section of the warehouse is now an american embassy, and therefore the product is finished on american soil thanks

How fast can a Japanese company move work to America to reduce import expenses?

Counterpoint: to avoid tariffs, how fast can American companies move out of America?

It's probably quicker for this person to move to Japan tbh

That guy knows nothing.

They wouldn't finish contracting in 2-3 months lol

Contracting of your new flagship would be more like 6-12 mo, right?
Then there's the setup time, which is easily another year or two.
I'm no expert in the manufacturing field, so tell me if I'm wrong.

at least two