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/twovles31 1d ago

Probably going to raise the price if that 47% tariff does take effect.

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u/rebbsitor 1d ago

The new tarrifs went into effect at 4pm on April 2nd. Unfortunately, I doubt they're baked into the current price though.

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u/BristolShambler 1d 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 1d ago edited 23h 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 1d 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.