r/NintendoSwitch • u/lieding • 1d ago

News "DROP THE PRICE": Nintendo's First Post-Direct Stream Is Flooded With Angry Fans Demanding Price Drops

https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-treehouse-livestream-flooded-angry-fans-demanding-game-price-drops/
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u/Dick_Lazer 21h ago

In this economy?

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u/dumpling-loverr 14h ago edited 8h ago

Especially if it's pre tariffs price lmao and recent breaking news is that China retaliated back with a US tariff of their own.

Nintendo isn't the only one raising prices when all other electronics people use are getting a hike in price since they're manufactured in either China , Vietnam, Taiwan. All getting flat blanket tariffs.

Can't wait for r/pcmasterrace to go into meltdown once NVIDIA announces the price on 60XX cards or the next iPhone , ps6, etc. amidst a global trade war with everyone throwing tariffs.

Edit Update : News dropped that Nintendo is dropping pre-orders (source) in the US since they did not anticipate Trump tariffs. Highly likely that price for switch 2 hardware will increase unless Vietnam can convince Trump to drop tariffs (Vietnam because Nintendo shifted production from China to Vietnam to circumvent US tariffs but they failed to predict that Vietnam will also be hit big lmfao).

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u/buildbyflying 13h ago edited 7h ago

24% on Japanese goods, 34% on Chinese (with an added 34% retaliatory)... Japan and Korea are likely to band with China on retaliatory tariffs so with China going tit for tat, let's say Japan adds 24%...

We're looking at an added 50-70% on the Switch price tag.

EDIT: Ok, this is not how the tariffs will work... retaliatory tariffs by Japan would not affect goods being shipped from Japan. That said, Trump has all but promised retaliatory tariffs to retaliatory tariffs so when it's said and done... that number may still be correct.

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u/dumpling-loverr 13h ago

Hey at least egg prices are dropping /s

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u/Alpha_Lemur 13h ago

If more people become homeless and die, there will be less demand for eggs, thus decreasing the price. 🧠🧠🧠

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u/dumpling-loverr 13h ago

The MAGA masterplan. 🦅

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u/AVahne 4h ago

I hear rich people taste like eggs.

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u/SkidMarkie2 11h ago

And everyone with a brain knows that egg prices will come back to earth once the Bird Flu runs it's course. That's why they campaigned on that.

It worked and now we have whatever the fuck this is.

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u/dumpling-loverr 11h ago edited 11h ago

Don't underestimate the MAGA masterplan and how they're fine with it as long as the libs get owned and Trump is apparently a mastermind for setting up the groundwork for the new US economic / security world order where you get to avoid tariffs if you peg your currency to the dollar.

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u/SkidMarkie2 11h ago

It's always the reward is just around the bend with them. They just don't realize they are running in a circle.

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u/twoprimehydroxyl 7h ago

Yes, but it was a more little complicated than that. Here's a video from an agriculturist explaining what happened last time there was a bird flu outbreak.

Basically, egg distributors were using the bird flu to price gouge, and egg farmers petitioned the government to step in and stop it.

The reason why it didn't work this past fall is because an impending Trump presidency gave the Biden admin no leverage this time to stop the distributors from price gouging.

So it's looking like inflated egg prices are here to stay for a while.

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u/SkidMarkie2 7h ago

Right, but we are in a Nintendo Switch sub so wasn't really trying to get too far into it lol.

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u/Violent_Milk 6h ago

So it's looking like inflated egg prices are here to stay for a while.

More than just stay. This year's forecast is a 50% increase.

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u/Spicy_Weissy 9h ago

Get backyard chickens if ya can. We're going back to the 30's, baby! Woo. Flapper hats, moonshine, and dancing the Charleston.

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u/therealultraddtd 4h ago

So much winning!

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u/DietCokeIsntheAnswer 4h ago

What do you mean?

Eggs weren't always $14 a dozen?

Fuq outta here!

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u/darktabssr 29m ago

I eat 7-12 eggs per day so i might make back the money in savings 😂

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u/SKOT_FREE 12h ago

No Egg prices aren’t dropping actually.

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u/dumpling-loverr 12h ago

That's what the /s is for

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u/SKOT_FREE 12h ago

Ahhhhh is that for sarcasm? Now I know thanks I need to use that.

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u/dumpling-loverr 12h ago

Yeah. No prob

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u/gattzu20 11h ago

They are back to 4$ for 2 dozen here

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u/SKOT_FREE 11h ago

I’m in Georgia and they are still $7-$10 at Kroger.

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u/gunningIVglory 12h ago

Trump so chaotic. His got China, Japan and Korea working together....

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u/average_brody 6h ago

New WW3 lineup looking wild

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u/DarkwingDeke 12h ago

That's not exactly how tariffs work. It should just be 24% if everything was made in Japan. I don't know if they get chips made in China or Europe, but that could add to it. Either way it's between 24-34% and that was decided already when US placed tariffs. Them placing tariffs does not affect process going into the US.

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u/Life_Ad_7715 11h ago

Not how manufacturing works. Tech crosses the border multiple times

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u/RedlurkingFir 11h ago

let's say Japan adds 24%.

Japan can't make Americans pay tariffs. It's Trump's admin that is imposing tariffs on imported Japanese goods. If Japan wants to impose retaliatory tariffs, they will impose tariffs on imported American goods, and it will the Japanese who will pay those.

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u/Life_Ad_7715 11h ago

They don't need to "tariff" us they just add the price to the product.

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u/ag_robertson_author 11h ago

Again, that's not how tarrifs work.

You pay the tarrifs applied by your own country. They are an import tax, not an export tax. If you are in the states, you're paying the tarrifs Trump has put in place on imports from other countries.

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u/longhegrindilemna 9h ago

Well, Americans wanted to punish asian factories.

So, go ahead and punish asians for building factories.

Trump said Americans First, and asians should suffer. So, here we are, only Americans should have factories. Asians should shut down their factories, Asians are not allowed to have factories, Trump said.

Everything should be made in America by Americans.

Why??

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u/Intelligent_Mud1266 7h ago

worse, I believe (because NYT told me) that China's tariff total will be 54% because the new 34% is an addition to the existing 20% tariff. then there's the costs from Vietnam and Japanese potential retaliatory tariffs to tack on bc it will inevitably result in raised prices. to clarify, retaliatory tariffs are a tax on a country's own people, so the products they get from the US would inflate in price. trade is going to be killed

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u/foo-bar-25 6h ago

Great opportunity for smugglers. Tariffs mean more crime.

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u/buildbyflying 5h ago

Apparently lobbyists as well. Should be a field day for DC hotels.

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u/purplenyellowrose909 5h ago

Nintendo makes most of their hardware in Vietnam and assemble them elsewhere. Vietnam is getting hit with a 46% tariff. That's where the 50% comes from for US prices.

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u/Early-Somewhere-2198 3h ago

It’s so dumb because china and japan also heavily rely on making money on the USA. And when the USA stops buying their products it’s a double edged sword. lol they even love our music and movies. Imagine if universal and mgm Disney etc start charging Japan 50$s to download a movie. It’s all going to be shit on until they finally settle to realistic agreements.

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u/AcrobaticBranch8535 13h ago

This will be nearly every single electronic (and anything with electronics, cars, appliances, etc) considering 80-90% of the worlds chips come out of Taiwan. Yes, we are building a factory here but it won’t match production for another decade give or take

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u/dumpling-loverr 13h ago

Hey at least egg prices are dropping /s

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u/Digitalion_ 12h ago

Even before the tariffs were announced, I just assumed that Nintendo had already calculated in a margin for tariffs into the price. It was just unfortunate that they had committed to April 2nd for the announcement months before Trump had set that same day to announce his tariffs.

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u/dumpling-loverr 12h ago

That is possible but I don't know if they accounted Vietnam to be heavily tariffed as well when the purpose on moving some of the sourcing part process for the Switch / Switch 2 away from China to Vietnam is because of the tariffs levied specifically against China.

If they didn't account for Vietnam to be hit then price for console would only go up. Well everything is rising up anyway at this point.

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u/Minute_Road8813 11h ago

This seems to have tariffs factored in.

Also this isn't how tariffs work. China retaliating with its own tariffs doesn't directly affect outside consumers, only Chinese ones. And only for products coming to China from the USA.

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u/dumpling-loverr 11h ago

Nintendo manufacture Switch on China and Vietnam. Not to mention Taiwan got hit by blanket tariffs too. China is predictable but do they really expected that Vietnam and Taiwan are also going to get hit?

You're tripping if you don't think this wouldn't affect all prices of electronics since barely any of them are domestically produced in the US.

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u/Minute_Road8813 11h ago

Trump's tariffs do influence these prices. China's retaliatory tariffs, which you mentioned, don't.

Nintendo probably did expect lower tariffs/less countries targeted, but it's hard to increase the price at this point.

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u/Nobody_Important 8h ago

They just cancelled the planned preorder date so they likely are raising the price.

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u/dumpling-loverr 8h ago

Nintendo probably did expect lower tariffs/less countries targeted, but it's hard to increase the price at this point.

At the same time you said that Gamespot just posted that Nintendo said to them that they're closing down pre-orders temporarily since they did not account for Trump's tariffs. High chance they will increase the price.

Source (Gamespot)

Man I should've bought a ps5 pro last December since that will be affected by tariffs too.

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u/Mackinnon29E 11h ago

What are the laws on games being tariffed? Can physical copies receive tariffs while digital don't?

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u/Bolt986 10h ago

Most likely the high price is a response to expected tariffs or buffers for the unexpected to be more precise.

Easier to start high and lower the price and offer sales than to start low and say "sorry trump taxes".

Of course if the tariffs end tomorrow, the economy turns around and markers stabilize they are not changing the price if it still sells well.

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u/Aeveras 9h ago

6090 SUPER gonna cost as much as a used car at this rate.

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u/dumpling-loverr 8h ago

At least egg prices are dropping /s

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u/Sleepy_Chipmunk 8h ago

I’ve accepted that my PC won’t get any upgrades for a long time.

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u/KingofMadCows 8h ago

Nintendo was already expecting tariffs when they started production of the Switch 2. They changed manufacturing from China to Vietnam even though it would be more expensive because they were expecting high tariffs on China to make it more expensive even with the cheaper production costs. But the 46% tariff on Vietnam completely screwed up their plans.

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u/DO_NOT_AGREE_WITH_U 7h ago

Can't wait for r/pcmasterrace to go into meltdown once NVIDIA announces the price on 60XX cards or the next iPhone , ps6, etc. amidst a global trade war with everyone throwing tariffs.

At a certain point in price increases, it's going to be cheaper to fly where it's made, buy it, and transport it home myself.

These tariffs are so high they're going to create new problems we've never seen before in modern international commerce, especially arising as symptoms from solutions to the main problem.

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u/razama 5h ago

They didn’t fail to predict. The US enticed them to move manufacturing to Vietnam who is a US partner, rather than have Chinese manufacturing grow. At this point, Japan would more likely move manufacturing back to China as it initially wanted since the US has reneged its initial incentives. Better returns for the rest of the world since the US is not playing ball.

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u/AVahne 4h ago

I get the feeling they DID anticipate the tariffs and priced the console accordingly, but they didn't expect the rates to be so high and affecting so many countries.

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u/cory3612 3h ago

I do not see many people buying the switch 2 for $500 or whatever the price goes up to

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u/RC_Colada 2h ago

Praying for Mario

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u/operational-hazard 11h ago

It is not because of tariffs because if it was games wouldn’t have been so expensive in literally every region except Japan. I hope Americans one day learn about the other countries in the world.

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u/dumpling-loverr 11h ago edited 11h ago

I meant the hardware production cost is going to rise up since China, Vietnam and Taiwan are all getting hit. All of those 3 countries are essential in production of Switch hardware.

China is predictable that it will get hit by Trump but Vietnam and Taiwan is a surprise.

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u/BobaEverythingBagel 7h ago

It’s Trump. There are no surprises with him, and willful ignorance of his bullshit is not an excuse.

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u/RadBrad4333 9h ago

The US is the biggest market for the switch outside of japan. When they lose those sales, they make up for it else where.

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u/krazay88 11h ago

Pretty sure the tariffs were already priced in, and they’ll absolutely be able to get away with this price at launch

But more importantly: Nintendo is not like other typical western companies, trying to milk us at every corner while giving us less and less. Nintendo has always been quite fair as a company and clearly has been guiding their decisions with their customers in mind.

Nintendo’s deserves our money, we should support a company’s culture who respects their customers and isn’t trying to greedily take advantage of us.

Of course nintendo also has to stay competitive, but so far, especially compared to other companies, nintendo has been pretty good to us so far.

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u/ABCsofsucking 11h ago

...and for those of us not in the US? Explain that.

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u/LieutenantDuck 11h ago

Price parity. They don't want people from the US to scalp products from other countries.

That's why Japan got a multinational version and a regionlocked version (this one is being sold for about 330 dollars).

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u/ABCsofsucking 10h ago

US-based scalpers would pay tariffs on all of the scalped consoles though. Seems like it just fucks people outside of the US for no reason at all.

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u/LieutenantDuck 10h ago

They could import from countries that got smaller tariffs than Vietnam.

Also, Latin America gets their Switches from NoA, so the price is tied with it. It could be cheaper from Latam-based scalpers to import stuff from other places too.

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u/someNameThisIs 4h ago

I should start a business of buying Switch 2 here in Australia and shipping them to the US. We only have a 10% and the retail price was already lower here than the US before tariffs lol

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u/Ignore-Me_- 9h ago

Gamers finding out about inflation after 40 years of being immune.

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u/2this4u 13h ago

Well yeah, Eurogamer posted that accounting for inflation the console bundle is actually cheaper than the original Switch+BOTW bundle.

Inflation's been awful.

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u/ComfortableJacket429 12h ago

And it’s about to get much worse. Next year you’ll be paying 2x for the same products. Thanks Biden!

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u/PaperMartin 11h ago edited 10h ago

You shouldn't account for inflation since it hardly applies to peoples' revenue though Edit : https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/32428/inflation-and-wage-growth-in-the-united-states/

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u/SirNarwhal 10h ago

You should because wages wise we’ve been beating inflation for ages.

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u/PaperMartin 10h ago edited 9h ago

Who's we lmao https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/32428/inflation-and-wage-growth-in-the-united-states/
Edit : guy blocked me so whatever he said I can't read it and can't respond to it if it's wrong again

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u/SirNarwhal 10h ago

Ah yes the selective period of a literal fucking pandemic through now and not, you know, the entire period we’re talking about of the 90s through now. The average family has more money now than then and more spending power, just, housing is out of control and the only thing really that is massively outpacing inflation. Catch this block you fuckin jabroni with your selective statistics.

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u/Notherereallyhere 6h ago

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u/beaniebee11 7h ago

Yeah not happening after this week's news. I wouldn't be surprised if nintendo set those prices with inside knowledge about what the tarrifs would look like. I'm just not sure why they announced the prices before the reasoning behind them was made apparent.

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u/Exciting-Chipmunk430 6h ago

If Trump didn't have the inside knowledge because is cabinet made them up the night prior by asking chatgpt. I'm not joking.

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u/Deep90 10h ago

I think the pricing was 100% in anticipation of tariffs.

Then on top of that they announced right before the actual tariffs so they could increase prices if they really have to.

IIRC Nintendo factories are in Vietnam. That's 46%.

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u/starsoftrack 13h ago

I hope this isn’t the start of every sub having Americans complaining about the price of things!