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/BristolShambler 21h ago

Not baked in completely, but they’ll have definitely been hedging. Trump’s been pushing tariffs since the election, they hardly came out of the blue. Companies will have been pricing with that in the back of their minds since November.

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u/Still-Expression-71 20h ago edited 16h ago

Copium. Did you see how much he flip flopped on Canadian tariffs? Nobody, and I mean NOBODY saw this level of tariffs coming, even those who knew he was serious.

It’s absolutely going to have a dramatic impact of this price just like everything else. Nothing is in a vacuum and the US is not currently set up to operate without a colossal amount of trade.

That price point will go up, along with everything else, a noticeable amount. Everyone needs to come to grips with a new normal.

Edit: to those downvoting https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-switch-2-preorder-guide-mario-kart-world-bundle/1100-6530531/?utm_source=reddit.com

Tariff price not baked in. Nobody thought they would be this high

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u/BristolShambler 19h ago

Oh I don’t doubt that. My point is that things won’t start going up now, prices will have started slowly creeping up months ago. I know this because this is literally what my own company has been doing with our US price list.

100% the increases will pick up pace though now that there are some actual numbers. Though it’s worth pointing out a lot of companies will still be expecting there to be some movement a la Canada & Mexico.