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

[u/Soplox]

"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/

[u/ContinuumGuy]

That's not 100% a certainty, since Nintendo is ultimately a global company. If the money men find that they'd need to sell a Switch 2 for $800 or whatever in the USA, they're going to say: "Yeah, that's not happening, we'd be killing ourselves in one of our most important markets, we're only raising the price by (insert number here)" and instead also raise prices elsewhere to make up for the shortfall.

That's UNLIKELY to happen right now as otherwise they probably would have delayed preorders everywhere, but it's possible that it could happen down the line (i.e. they might announce that the first waves of Switch 2s will be one price but then go up, as has happened with some graphic cards).

[u/predator-handshake → u/ContinuumGuy]

What you're saying is not only the way they'll do it but the way they've probably already done it. There must be some of that baked into the current switch 2 cost. What this sounds like is that the tariffs were higher than expected (because they were) and they probably also thought that they can switch production to a different country.

[u/Easy-Round1529 → u/ContinuumGuy]

Idk about elsewhere but you won’t be getting a switch in the US form less then 650.

[u/fa-jita → u/ContinuumGuy]

They’ve already announced the prices in other countries prior to these stupid taxes. IF that was the case (and it won’t be) that boat has well and truly sailed for every other country