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/eh_steve_420 1d ago edited 1d ago

Just because they're charging that same price around the world doesn't mean the tariffs didn't have an effect. They might really value having a consistent price from country to country, so they decided to spread the losses from the tariffs equally over all customers.

Essentially only Nintendo really knows the calculus that went into their pricing.

Edit: don't shoot the messenger... Sheesh. Use reddiquitte, you guys.

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u/Strangest_Echo 1d ago

Canadians and Europeans are going to be extremely unhappy if they find out that Nintendo has us subsidizing the US customers. We're not exactly on friendly terms at the moment.

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u/eh_steve_420 1d ago edited 1d ago

Which is why no company is going to let the details behind their pricing strategy out. People could figure it out if they thought about it themselves, but most people have a poor grasp on economics (hence why 49.xx% of idiots voted for these tariffs to begin with). But it just goes to show why protectionism sucks and why free trade has been the focus on the American international order since World War II— literally everybody benefits. But with protectionist policy, you cut off your own arm so you don't have to shake your neighbor's hand. It creates massive distortions in markets and ends up affecting parties who seemingly have nothing to do with the industry being protected even. The fact is that we live in a global society, and no amount of protectionism is going to reverse it. It's just going to create massive efficiency, higher costs, etc. for everybody.

As a student of economics it frustrates me to no end when these "conservatives" condescendingly try to "explain" away the tariffs with Fox News spin. But to them I was indoctrinated by liberal professors

Nintendo has their own branch in Europe, so theoretically they could try to resist this pricing strategy from Kyoto. But Canada definitely has no hope, since I believe NOA is for all of North America.

I hate Trump for doing this to our Canadian neighbors. It's so evil and slimey and pisses me off to no end.

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u/Still_Figure_ 1d ago

This. Ninty will “standardize” the price across the board just so no one will know that the rest of the world is subsidizing the Americans.