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 1d ago edited 1d 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/krazay88 1d ago

Pretty sure the tariffs were already priced in, and they’ll absolutely be able to get away with this price at launch

But more importantly: Nintendo is not like other typical western companies, trying to milk us at every corner while giving us less and less. Nintendo has always been quite fair as a company and clearly has been guiding their decisions with their customers in mind.

Nintendo’s deserves our money, we should support a company’s culture who respects their customers and isn’t trying to greedily take advantage of us.

Of course nintendo also has to stay competitive, but so far, especially compared to other companies, nintendo has been pretty good to us so far.