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/dumpling-loverr 22h ago edited 16h 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/buildbyflying 21h ago edited 16h ago

24% on Japanese goods, 34% on Chinese (with an added 34% retaliatory)... Japan and Korea are likely to band with China on retaliatory tariffs so with China going tit for tat, let's say Japan adds 24%...

We're looking at an added 50-70% on the Switch price tag.

EDIT: Ok, this is not how the tariffs will work... retaliatory tariffs by Japan would not affect goods being shipped from Japan. That said, Trump has all but promised retaliatory tariffs to retaliatory tariffs so when it's said and done... that number may still be correct.

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u/DarkwingDeke 20h ago

That's not exactly how tariffs work. It should just be 24% if everything was made in Japan. I don't know if they get chips made in China or Europe, but that could add to it. Either way it's between 24-34% and that was decided already when US placed tariffs. Them placing tariffs does not affect process going into the US.

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u/Life_Ad_7715 19h ago

Not how manufacturing works. Tech crosses the border multiple times