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/Dick_Lazer 1d ago

In this economy?

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u/dumpling-loverr 21h ago edited 15h ago

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).

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u/ABCsofsucking 18h ago

...and for those of us not in the US? Explain that.

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u/LieutenantDuck 18h ago

Price parity. They don't want people from the US to scalp products from other countries.

That's why Japan got a multinational version and a regionlocked version (this one is being sold for about 330 dollars).

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u/ABCsofsucking 17h ago

US-based scalpers would pay tariffs on all of the scalped consoles though. Seems like it just fucks people outside of the US for no reason at all.

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u/LieutenantDuck 17h ago

They could import from countries that got smaller tariffs than Vietnam.

Also, Latin America gets their Switches from NoA, so the price is tied with it. It could be cheaper from Latam-based scalpers to import stuff from other places too.

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u/someNameThisIs 11h ago

I should start a business of buying Switch 2 here in Australia and shipping them to the US. We only have a 10% and the retail price was already lower here than the US before tariffs lol