The market wasn’t expecting the tariffs to be as insane as they were — which is why it crashed. They had been expecting 10% maximums, not minimums.
Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Dammm, the best part is everyone speculated that the price it’s at now was to predict and get ahead of tarrif pricing by already setting it higher. The fact that it’s not is scary.
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Thorry84@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Well we knew the price didn’t include the tarrifs when we saw Europe get absolutely crazy high prices. Higher than the US and a lot higher if we take into account the dollar tanking right now.
llii@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
That was the first thing I thought of too.
GhostlyPixel@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think the $450 USD was just keeping up with inflation.
$300 in March 2017 when the switch originally launched is equivalent to almost $400 today ($392 and some change). S2 is launching at $450, if they were only expecting 15%-ish tariffs then maybe, but it should then be cheaper outside of the US if tariffs were the only reason.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I would say it’s more that some studios are spending even more to make them, games don’t have to cost more to make as you can now make a lot more with a smaller team than you could 20 years ago.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No, it’s one of the most expensive Nintendo consoles ever. Only beat by the NES and the SNES. Those released when prices were at all time highs for this stuff.
deur@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
God damn everyone has heard this stupid ass argument and it just makes you stupid to repeat it. Shut up.
dan@upvote.au 4 weeks ago
Do you not like trading the truth?
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Would tariffs apply to the games as well?
GhostlyPixel@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Physical copies if they are made outside the US, digital no iirc
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Ahh so software can cross borders for free. Then presumably they can just rent a shed somewhere to write data to what ever storage media they use these days.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
and some games arnt even worth 60$ to begin with