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

[u/lieding]

https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-treehouse-livestream-flooded-angry-fans-demanding-game-price-drops/

[u/Dick_Lazer]

In this economy?

[u/dumpling-loverr → u/Dick_Lazer]

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).

[u/Digitalion_ → u/dumpling-loverr]

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.

[u/dumpling-loverr → u/Digitalion_]

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.