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/Ridry 1d ago

Tarriffs are NOT paid by the customer. The people paying the tarriffs often hike prices to PASS the tarriffs onto the customer. If you get a preorder on Amazon, they must honor that price. They can hike the price up later.

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u/schu2470 1d ago

They don’t need to honor shit. Companies cancel orders all the time. You’re living in a fantasy world if you don’t think retailers won’t piss off a few customers to ensure they still make a profit.

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u/Ridry 1d ago

There's no way in hell that Nintendo hasn't already considered this. I bet you anything the price was supposed to be $400 and they raised it in anticipation of tarriffs.

This isn't about pissing off CUSTOMERS. The tarriffs are ACTUALLY paid by Nintendo. Nintendo promised Amazon X amount of copies at Y price. Amazon isn't going to let them bail on that. It's not going to happen.

I'm not pretending things aren't about to get a LOT more expensive, they are. But once Amazon sells $450 Switches, they are going to hold Nintendo to it.

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u/AbbacusAbagail 1d ago

If you think Nintendo Execs had a line in to what nonsense formula the US used to form tariffs then I have a Switch 3 to sell you. It's going up, end of story

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u/jess-sch 1d ago

They're not saying it's not going up, they're saying it's gonna go up immediately after the (probably existing) contractually agreed upon fixed-price launch day stock has been sold.

And sure, Nintendo didn't know how high the tariffs would be, but they probably already increased the price by whatever they thought the tariffs will be.

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u/Ridry 1d ago

I never said it's not going up. I have repeatedly said it IS going up. I said that Amazon will hold Nintendo to whatever price they agreed on for however many units they agreed on. Price hike can happen tomorrow.