Absolutely. The console is manufactured in Vietnam, which now has a 46% tariff.
Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns
drunkenkissstyle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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. Wonder if the price of the console and even the cartridge games will change.
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
dan@upvote.au 2 months 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.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Couldn’t they move it to another country first to reduce it a bit?
Skunk@jlai.lu 2 months 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.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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.
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
Maybe! I’m sure there’s loopholes of some sort.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Teknikal@eviltoast.org 2 months 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
alehel@lemmy.zip 2 months 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.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I think they necessarily will. I can’t imagine retailers eating the lost margin.
bluemite@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Retailers won’t eat it all, consumers will
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 2 months 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.