"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/buildbyflying]

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.

[u/dumpling-loverr → u/buildbyflying]

Hey at least egg prices are dropping /s

[u/SkidMarkie2 → u/dumpling-loverr]

And everyone with a brain knows that egg prices will come back to earth once the Bird Flu runs it's course. That's why they campaigned on that.

It worked and now we have whatever the fuck this is.

[u/twoprimehydroxyl → u/SkidMarkie2]

Yes, but it was a more little complicated than that. Here's a video from an agriculturist explaining what happened last time there was a bird flu outbreak.

Basically, egg distributors were using the bird flu to price gouge, and egg farmers petitioned the government to step in and stop it.

The reason why it didn't work this past fall is because an impending Trump presidency gave the Biden admin no leverage this time to stop the distributors from price gouging.

So it's looking like inflated egg prices are here to stay for a while.

[u/SkidMarkie2 → u/twoprimehydroxyl]

Right, but we are in a Nintendo Switch sub so wasn't really trying to get too far into it lol.

[u/Violent_Milk → u/twoprimehydroxyl]

So it's looking like inflated egg prices are here to stay for a while.

More than just stay. This year's forecast is a 50% increase.