Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’
Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’
The Nintendo Switch 2 is likely to be hit hard by the tariffs…
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.
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.
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!
Lol. That 600+ is JUST the extra tax. That's on top of the base price
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!"
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
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.
On Americans only? Right? 😟
I would assume so, yea. They had stopped pre-orders in the US only when the tariffs were announced.
Only 4.125% of the world population is affected. No biggy.
Delusional. They are going to spread that cost over everyone
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.
Atleast this will radicalize the youth.
I wasn't going to buy it anyway with those prices
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.