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Nintendo delays US Switch 2 pre-orders due to tariffs

Those in the US looking to pre-order a Switch 2 will have to wait a little longer to do so than first expected.

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wesnytsfs420d ago

Just another reason to hate the current presidential administration

senorfartcushion420d ago

Every time a dumbass posts something along the lines of "keep politics out of my video games" or complains about "wokeness" or any other fake, made up controversy, i'm going to link them to this Nintendo article.

Turns out there is politics in videogames after all...

RedDevils420d ago

It's just an American problem...

DaCajun420d ago (Edited 420d ago )

Hooray more Nintendo Switch 2's for the rest of the world.

Don't worry scalpers will buy up all from other countries and sell them to my stupid fellow Americans that typically have no self control and are one of the reasons why gaming has become so expensive and full of microtransactions. The FOMO culture that who ironically are missing out on most things in life. But they have those 1k+ friends and followers online and none irl.

Killer2020UK420d ago

Videogames are a media form, saying "keep politics out of video games" is as stupid as saying 'keep politics off paper'.

People can write, create and talk about whatever they like. If you don't like it, tough, move on. You don't have any entitlement for a blanket ban on something just because you don't like some of it.

Fragile

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Eonjay420d ago (Edited 420d ago )

This is what they wanted. They wanted to be the victim so bad they victimized themselves and all of us with them.

Ps5conehead420d ago

So you do know other countries put tariffs. On the usa . Us in America are paying tariffs on other countries goods. It’s about time the USA did the same

stupidusername420d ago

@Ps5conehead
That’s the narrative, but there’s hundred of pages with nuances that makes this a bad idea. Most countries had tariffs on select goods from the US, which is very different from what US is doing by putting a tariff on absolutely everything. If you compare the consequences it’s night and day. And it’s not like US didn’t have tariffs on other countries before Trump either.
Trump’s whole rhetoric is to get back at others, and it works because people are upset and need someone to blame. But that also means that Trump can get his way by simply making straw men for the public to fight.

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PRIMORDUS420d ago

It's changed now, no more President now called a Dictator.

Mmmkay420d ago

@ps5conehead
*You're
the idiot.
And English is not even my first language. Lol.

joab777420d ago

Yeah it’s much better if we just let every country tax the s out of our goods but not tax anyone else. How is that even remotely fair.
We complain about no middle class and no good jobs and how they’ve all gone everseas and then complain when we level the playing field.
If you are one of the top 10% that is in finance because that’s what has replaced manufacturing then u can afford a 2-4% increase on a Switch.

343_Guilty_Spark419d ago

Jobs went overseas because a 5 year old in China can make Air Jordans for pennies on the dollar. They can pay $2 an hour to some random in India and the Philippines to staff a call center.

Oh and because Billionaires never cared about the American middle class.

joab777420d ago

Also remember when Nintendo, who has more cash than anyone but Apple, decided to delay its simply to increase profits.

senorfartcushion420d ago (Edited 420d ago )

The increase is for EVERY GAME AND EVERY COMPANY OUTSIDE OF THE US. And there are going to be increases in American goods because of licensing and parts.

So expect increases for PC, Microsoft via Xbox, Nividia, Ps5, Nintendo, Lenovo - everything. Even subscriptions will be affected through the extra charges on licenses alone.

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OtterX420d ago

Crazy. I secured my Mario Kart World bundle last night from Amazon over here in the EU. I didn't get the 5th, but the 12th is fine with me. I'm just glad that my Mario Kart was only €40 extra versus what they were charging for the base console with no game.

DivineHand125420d ago

Nintendo consoles are manufactured in Vietnam. Yesterday, the US President announced a 46% tarrift on goods imported from Vietnam.

If we do the math, the switch 2 console was announced at $450 and the new tarrifts will take that price to $657. Of course that is the based on the cost the consumer has to pay but realistically, the tarrifts would be 46% of what the retailers pay when they buy the consoles from Nintendo. So the price will likely be $600 to $650 unless something is done.

gerbintosh420d ago (Edited 420d ago )

I don't agree with the Tariffs, but Nintendo might have to eat the costs or recoup them some other way because people will not pay $650 for this console. Especially when necessities, like food, will cost more.

Consumers can live without video games but Nintendo would not survive without the US market.

__y2jb420d ago

This is the problem with maga idiots, they don’t realise that companies cannot ‘eat the costs’. Prices will sky rocket and the American consumer will pay. That’s the price for electing a lying, low iq, petty moron as president.

lukasmain420d ago (Edited 420d ago )

I read Vietnam want to suspend tarrifs and negotiate. They will cave I believe, most countries will cave. Canada, Mexico are already on the way. My country Australia probably will too. Interesting times ahead indeed

Redemption-64420d ago (Edited 420d ago )

Canada and Mexico literally did nothing. Trump, giving how rətarded he is can't even remember he was the one who negotiate and signed a deal, one he called the best deal ever and now he is using that same deal to claim they are cheating Americans. Canada and Mexico are saying they will do they same things they have been doing and he and his gullible sheep are eating it up. The guy wants to be loved so bad he will create a fake problem and when things go back to normal he takes credit. The guy is so stupid he put tariffs on an island with fucking penguins, then lied everyone was calling him. This was followed by retaliation from China. His brain dead supporters will probably start hating penguins

lcslick420d ago

Cave to what? Even if they get rid of all tariffs on the US they will still be tarriffed. Trump and his lot made the calculations based on trade deficit, not solely tariffs. Didn't they tariff Antartica, where only the penguins live? So other countries would have to completely drop all tariffs on the US while also buying more random stuff from them that they don't even need. It makes no sense for them to go that far.

anast420d ago

The tariffs are stupid and people that are even more stupid than the tariffs will buy them anyway. The Earth keeps spinning.

Auron420d ago

Well didn't Veitnam cave? So Art of the deal indeed..

Redemption-64420d ago

Putting aside the facts that the numbers he used are made up, all Vietnam has to do is give him the same deal and he will sign it. China just pushed back with more tariffs and I am sure the penguins he out those tariffs on are also calling him to negotiate right? The ignorance and stupidity of you people is scary

gold_drake420d ago

how did the world get so fked so fast lol.

... i mean i guess i know lol

Lexreborn2420d ago

Because hateful ppl, love to spread hate. And they did everything they could to plant those seeds

goken420d ago (Edited 420d ago )

Because the people of a particular country are too stupid to comprehend BS and facts. Voting for a con man idiot one time is one thing… doing it again is unforgivable

gold_drake420d ago

to be very fair, we have alot of "con man" or war mongers in this world who are on top of a country ha

DodoDojo420d ago

Yeah stupid Americans wanting fair trades for their country, man what idiots. /S

senorfartcushion420d ago

The UK is next. It's an international thing. Poland, Greece and other EU countries are also falling to the loneliness epidemic.

anast419d ago

Read Frederick Douglass' Narrative, chapter 3, last paragraph. If this doesn't wake you up, I don't know what will.

Knushwood Butt419d ago

There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

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anast420d ago

This is an extremely complex question. But it has a lot to do with expediency and alienation.

goken419d ago

Actually it isn’t that complexed at all.
But it definitely has a lot to do with expediency and alienation.

anast418d ago

Tell me then. Answer this problem.

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