Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’

Hopefully gamers get together and protest Trump out of office for artificially bumping up the costs of goods.

Tarrifs = Tax

A tax that working people pay, in the country that set the tarriff.

145% of 450 is 652, you add those together and it’s essentially 1100$. And that’s before tax at the register in the US.

Lol. That 600+ is JUST the extra tax. That's on top of the base price

They will just put the games at 100 each, not including DLC

I don't even want to imagine what is going to be the price for it here in Brazil. After the ps4 launched for nearly $2000 I haven't even looked at any console retail prices here again.

They already crossed the border!

Yeah I didn’t wanna pay that for a PS5. And the PS5 GPU alone is likely 5 times more power then what’s rumored to be in the switch 2… no way I’m paying that for a switch.

Thanks half the voting country too. You got neighbors who asked for this.

Let me fix that for you:

Sony: we'll let the whole world pay astronomical amounts of money because it makes us rich! And if someone calls us on it, we'll say it's all because of the US!

Tangential but was at the hospital for an Endo appointment with my son and chuckled in our waiting room "I bet there's an old white guy in a suit right now going 'but what if we made these waiting rooms smaller?'"

Note. Room was already small.

I mean, yeah, Sony just did it with its ps5

Haven't they already announced the price?

The price was going to be $499. A 145% tariff makes the price $1222.55. A 100% tariff would double the price and this is more than 100%.

Looks like pretty steep inflation fueled by tariffs. I wonder how the Denies Reality Party (DeRPs) will spin it.

If they tried to spread the cost amongst everyone no one would buy the switch is already borderline unreasonably expensive. Limiting the price increase to only the tariffed country means they'll only lose out on the American market not the everyone else in the world market, which is bigger.

If the tariff is too great the cost becomes unspreadable. Spreading cost requires other regions to still afford the new price, and with numbers like this that's unlikely.

About one-third of Switches were sold in the US. Spreading a 145% tariff means hiking everyone's prices by 40-50%. That will murder sales in other regions.

Better to eat a 30% temporary loss that adds pressure on Trump to reverse-course than to eat an even higher loss and face backlash worldwide for making others pay for Trumps idiocy.

Nintendo games are excellent games. Some of the highest quality games among AAA studios. What sucks is Nintendo as a company

It would be worth it if it cost $50. Of course it never would cost $50.

It would be worth it if it cost the same as the first switch and if the games weren't so expensive. There is a price point at which it is actually a good value product, but it's so far beyond that price point now, even without tariffs.