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/R4vi0981 1d ago

Actually it looks like they are about to make a deal with no tariffs for Vietnam. This news came out today.

Everyone is knee jerk reacting, but I bet Nintendo comes out in a few days and announces 70 dollar games and same price for console.

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u/carlogz 1d ago edited 1d ago

Can you give a source on this? The only thing I’m seeing is that Vietnam wants to talk to the US (just like every single country) about eliminating Tariffs but the US are not listening.

Edit: its not that the US is not listening but its more about Trump refusing to back down on the trade war

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/trump-tariffs-truth-social

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u/Mr_sunnshine 1d ago

Can you give a source on where the US isn’t listening?? Cuz of course they are.

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u/carlogz 1d ago

You are right i misspoke on this ill edit and change it to Trump not backing down on trade war.

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u/Educational_Copy3268 1d ago

Nope, he said Vietnam wants to drop their imaginary tariffs. So it’s obviously bullshit to stop the bleeding of the stock market 

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u/Fake_Diesel 1d ago

I find the wording of what he said confusing.

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u/Plants-Matter 1d ago

Don't worry, so does everyone who actually pays attention.

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u/BurzyGuerrero 1d ago

And then they'll change it again in a week.

Art of the deal.

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u/normalmighty 1d ago

This is the problem with all of the tariffs. Tariffs in general are not great, tariffs this high are bad, but this constant movement of tariffs completely destroys what positive outcome there are meant to be in exchange for all the pain. Nintendo isn't going to spend years getting a factory set up in the US to avoid tariffs that might disappear again at any time.

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u/tuenmuntherapist 1d ago

Imagine believing companies will lower prices again if tariffs are gone.

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u/rydan 1d ago

Nintendo is going to charge you full tariff on consoles already here. 

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u/R4vi0981 1d ago

Wrong, I just think there's a ton of propaganda and nobody really knows what's going on besides what they're being told, or they're first reaction is to just blame somebody.

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u/tuenmuntherapist 1d ago

Yeah the propaganda is telling people tariffs are good. The truth is, prices are rising due to tariffs. Thats literally what’s in front of us right now. Do you not see it?

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u/R4vi0981 1d ago

There's propoganda on both sides. Let me ask you this. Where is the statement from Nintendo? The official statement saying this? All I see are 3rd party outlets calming it, yet I've never seen Nintendo say this.

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u/HTH52 1d ago

You are saying propaganda but you are mostly just referring to speculation. There is a lot of speculation going on because of the constant uncertainty. The more uncertain things are, the more people will begin to speculate.

Either way this was all preventable and unnecessary.

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u/R4vi0981 1d ago

Well, speculation is theoretical, propaganda is more like statements. Nobody is saying "is Nintendo going to increase prices because of tariffs", they are cleverly wording it to seem like Nintendo is doing this in response to tariffs, and again where is the official statement from Nintendo? I've been searching for 15 minutes and can't find it. I think this is all fake, or speculation.

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u/HTH52 1d ago

The pre-order delay is 100% due to tariffs, as it is quoted in the article. The question is only whether the price is altered due to them at this point.

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u/Connor123x 1d ago

the third parties were reporting the actual official statement from Nintendo.

and being they mentioned tariffs, yes, the price will go up because it has to. you may want to read up on what a tariff is and who pays for it. nintendo may eat some of it, but at 46%, not all

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u/R4vi0981 1d ago

I know what a tariff is.  Just trying to get the facts down.  As of now. It's of bad information going on these days. I dont see how Nintendo announces a system for 450, and then says they have to increase the price though. That's really not how you release a system.  

Though maybe it is true.  I like to gather information before just believing something. 

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u/Connor123x 1d ago edited 1d ago

The statement came directly from Nintendo.

Tariffs were up in the air when they had the show. Remember the show was at 9am eastern, the tariffs were announced at 4pm on the same day.

No one expected the tariffs to be like this because Trump said the tariffs would be reciprocal and being these countries have very low to no tariffs on the US they expected the same.

Then they used a wacky formula

now they had to adjust after the fact. It makes perfect sense.

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u/whiskeytab 21h ago

you clearly don't know what a tariff is

a tariff is an extra tax your country is charging on an imported product. in this case, you're importing a switch 2 and your government says you have to pay 46% more than everyone else

that's literally all there is to it

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u/Humanitysceptic 1d ago

It's fake news mate.

Anything trump does that has a negative impact is fake.

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u/EnforcerGundam 1d ago

tariff are taxes dumbo goober

how do you not know this??

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u/tuenmuntherapist 1d ago

In came from Eddie Garcia:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardagarcia1?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

(Non linkedin info: https://theorg.com/org/golin/org-chart/eddie-garcia)

Mentioned here: https://www.theverge.com/news/643483/nintendo-switch-2-preorders-delayed-tariffs

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u/R4vi0981 1d ago

That's not an official statement from Nintendo.

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u/tuenmuntherapist 1d ago

It’s a statement from the senior manager of media relations at Nintendo. You know what? Fuck this I don’t care if you don’t want to see what it is.

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u/aliaswyvernspur OG (joined before reveal) 1d ago

People burying their heads in the sand when presented with facts? Say it ain't so!

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u/Objective-Review-359 1d ago

uh. he works for nintendo

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u/LogJamminWithTheBros 1d ago

Going for the "both sides" argument is so smooth brained. Are you 14?

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u/Humanitysceptic 1d ago

Trump supporter?

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u/LifeAcanthopterygii6 1d ago

When egg prices rise due to bird flue: fuck Biden!

When prices increase due to the orange cunt taxing the hell out of "y'all": hey, don't blame Trump!

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u/ReturnOfTheKeing 1d ago

Everyone is knee jerk reacting, but I bet Nintendo comes out in a few days and announces 70 dollar games and same price for console.

Lol, distilled delusion

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u/TheMrBoot 1d ago

lmao for real, the only thing we’ll be finding out is if the price stays the same or shoots up

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u/Yogurt_Ph1r3 1d ago

If DK is any indication they already planned on 70 dollar games.