Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns

• buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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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      • Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        a lot of savings

        Savings for who? If nothing is changed and manufacturers (and retailers) doesn’t make any kind of commercial gesture, the only ones paying more are the American consumers.

        So moving the manufacture would be a saving for every Joe and Jane in the US, not Nintendo nor the ROTW.

        Not moving the manufacture might be a loss of % in their US consumer base as prices will be too high there, but is it big enough to justify the enormous costs needed to move an entire industry workflow?

        I don’t think so, specially when there is so many instability in the US politic, if you move to an other country at great cost and 2 weeks later a new tariff is declared (because why not), you moved everything for no reason but still lost your investment.

        My belief is that no industry nor country will adapt, they will just increase the US market prices and keep on living like before with the ROTW. The only ones to suffer will be the American citizens and I’m sorry for them, but there is an all planet to trade with.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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