Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns

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• collapse_already@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think they necessarily will. I can’t imagine retailers eating the lost margin.

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  • bluemite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Retailers won’t eat it all, consumers will

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    • collapse_already@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      More like retailers won’t eat any of it and will take the opportunity to raise prices even more because they know consumers are expecting higher prices and they have pressure to retain or increase their margins to meet shareholder expectations.

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Absolutely. The console is manufactured in Vietnam, which now has a 46% tariff.

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  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The console is manufactured in Vietnam

    Which begs the question of why the console is going to be $100 cheaper for Japanese than anyone else even before you factor in the tariff situation.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They already factored in some amount of tariffs into the US price. It’s not really that it’s cheaper in Japan, but rather it’s more expensive in the USA. It’s cheaper in Australia too, for example.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Couldn’t they move it to another country first to reduce it a bit?

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    • Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That would cost them enormous amounts of cash and hours of work just for one market.

      There’s no point, the best option is just to ignore the US and let them pay more than the rest of the world, even if that means fewer sales.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well does it cost them more or less than the tariff. That is pretty much the only question, its not that much work if it results in a lot of savings.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Maybe! I’m sure there’s loopholes of some sort.

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• buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Cartridge games for the Switch 2 aren’t even cartridge games anymore, haven’t you heard? There’s no game on the cartridges just a passkey.

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  • Teknikal@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah that’s a big no from me my last handheld console was the Vita and I felt even that was overpriced for games that were actually on the cartridge.

    If everything is actually digital I’m simply not buying Sony killed my account with them because I didn’t login within 6 months and I’d actually bought games there so screw digital

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  • alehel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They just replace the code-in-a-box releases we had with gen 1 of the switch. They’re still doing the regular cartridges with the game on the card.

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    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Keep telling yourself that. It’s not like you’re dealing with a greedy corporation that has spent the last several years wiping out every alternative platform for playing their older games so that you have no other way to play their titles that they keep jacking the price up on simply because they can.

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