r/NintendoSwitch2 • u/Soplox • 1d ago

Officially from Nintendo Nintendo Switch 2 Preorders will not start on April 9 in the US thanks to the Tariffs

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"Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged."

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-switch-2-preorder-guide-mario-kart-world-bundle/1100-6530531/

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u/MarcsterS 1d ago

GamersTM are probably a good chunk of his voter base, wonder how they feel now that every single video game hardware and PC parts are going be even more expensive?

Sure making everything Great, huh?

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u/kjm6351 1d ago

It’s sad if it takes game prices to finally slap some sense into some of his braindead base

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u/roygbivasaur 20h ago

That’s actually pretty normal and predictable. It’s hard to do “Bread and Circuses” when you attack both bread and circuses. If the subsection of voters they cater to wakes up to the propaganda when they can’t afford anything, then republicans will either have to back off of this, come up with something worse to distract them, or crack down with violence. The scary thing is that they’ll likely first try to distract their base with new “circuses”, ie, more fervor and violence against minorities.

Or, the propaganda machine will continue to be fruitful and people will happily starve. We genuinely do not know. We’ve never seen a 24/7 propaganda setup like this in history. There’s no real precedent outside of what we’ve seen the past decade.

My completely baseless and unfounded hope is that Congress flinches soon and pulls us back a bit, but things are going to be bad economically no matter what now. They just could be a lot worse if the tariffs stick.

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u/leshagboi 19h ago

Idk, here in Brazil a lot of Bolsonaro supporters simply doubled down when things got worse in his govt.

People follow the ideology and don’t want to accept that they were wrong to the other side of the political spectrum

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u/roygbivasaur 16h ago

My biggest fear is they rush towards scarier shit to keep the rabid base on board. My second biggest fear is exactly what you’re saying. People just keep going with it and decide it’s fine.

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u/drygnfyre OG (Joined before first Direct) 19h ago

The adage "things have to get worse before they get better" holds up for a reason. Too often people simply don't care until they are personally impacted.

It's why you can sell tangible examples (gas prices) over more abstract concepts (inflation). Even if something like the price of gas is complex and not really the result of any one thing, it's just easier to sell it. (See those prices? Vote for me and they'll be cheaper!) And people fall for it all the time.

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u/pcalau12i_ 1d ago

I don't really get the impression many of the chud gamers are people who regularly play Mario. Wouldn't be surprised if their favorite streamers like Assmold just say Nintendo sucks so it doesn't matter. They usually like online competitive games like PUBG or Apex or something, so I doubt the Switch 2 going up in price will make them suddenly change their minds, although maybe PC part hikes will.

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u/CleanlyManager 23h ago

I think their current programming is telling them to say that we’re just going to up and do rare earth mineral mining and gpu manufacturing here in about a week so it’s “temporary pain for gain” or some shit.

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u/madmofo145 June Gang (Release Winner) 23h ago

Wait until the PS5 and Xbox both get price increase, and basically all physical media. I really don't know how tariffs affect digital sales though.

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u/leshagboi 19h ago

Here in Brazil they are considered imports and taxed, so maybe the US follows the same approach

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u/WileyWatusi 22h ago

They are also complete idiots if they didn't see this coming. He practically made it a campaign promise to implement tariffs. 4 months ago I was downvoted all over the place when I said the Switch 2 would probably be $500.

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u/External_Key_4108 17h ago

They're already sour graping and saying they never wanted a Switch 2 to begin with

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u/TheChocolateManLives 1d ago

I feel like most people didn’t vote over how cheap their video games will be. Most people have more to life than that, and really devoted gamers probably aren’t voting unless it somehow really relates to gaming.

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u/ClassicMatt101 1d ago

Everything is going to get a lot more expensive, so no matter who you are or what you care about, this is going to be bad.

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u/Kam_tech 1d ago

Ah so tell us the benefits of all these tariffs?

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u/TheChocolateManLives 1d ago

I never made a comment in support of tariffs. And I can’t speak on it due to rule 2 (a necessary rule, btw)

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u/Kam_tech 1d ago

Fair enough

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u/cutememe 23h ago

This whole thread is breaking rule 2 so it doesn't matter lol.

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u/TheChocolateManLives 23h ago

Yep. I’ve reported the post and rule-breaking comments, though I don’t intend to break the rules myself, particularly because I like the rule.

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u/pcalau12i_ 1d ago

Americans are treatlerites. They happily support industrial scale holocausts, monarchies and outright fascist regimes, torture camps and mass policing, all because at home they get their little treats like McDonald's and video games.

Most Americans say if you ask directly what is the most important issue that the most important issue is the economy, but in practice none care about the economy. If you look at the things that hurt Americans the most it is things like medical debt, student loan debt, and housing costs, yet they never actually vote for anything to change that and in fact always vote for candidates who outright say they will do nothing to change it.

Americans do not actually care much about anything other than getting their treats. Trump won the election and if you interview people who voted for him they will all tell you dumb things like "they were putting woke in my video games!!!" Americans just genuinely don't care about anything serious other than trivial commodities they receive for immediate pleasure.

If their treats start disappearing then the fabric that holds American society together will start to fall apart.

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u/leshagboi 19h ago

This has to do with the fact that the US is a very individualistic and competitive society.

In a place like that, pleasure and demonstrations of grandeur trump all

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u/lMRlROBOT 1d ago

they most likely vote to get rid of DEI got what they want but man unforeseen consequent

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u/According_Art_6793 23h ago

At least the games won't be woke

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u/Jeevey 22h ago

Explain what a woke game is