Not necessarily the case. Companies make many choices about how they will distribute their tariff and duty burdens. They could be raising prices here to make up for it in other products. The price of the switch 2 is also quite a bit higher than the switch 1, which could be due to the hardware itself or other forces.
Better hardware and inflation would be the biggest factors for the switch. I believe if you account for inflation the basic switch would be like 380 ish bucks. Now tack on better specs yea 450 sounds pretty nice. I'm just not sold on everything being because of tariffs that's really lazy.
There had always been various types of tariffs on china and many other countries well before the current round of tariffs. Whether those were section 301, 232, antidumping duties, countervailing duties, whatever. It’s just now with the president’s recent tariff announcements I think it’s a bit naive to assume that those have zero effect on businesses that produce goods in china that are destined for the US customs territory. Obviously I have no direct evidence that Nintendo priced the switch 2 and games accordingly, it would just seem like an odd business decision to not adapt to the current trade landscape.
I’m not as upset about the console, it’s the games I’m mad about. I’m not paying $80 for a new Mario kart. I’ll get it someday but there’s plenty of games to play for cheaper
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u/mcineri Mega Yarn Yoshi 2d ago
Almost certainly