Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If they tried to spread the cost amongst everyone no one would buy the switch is already borderline unreasonably expensive. Limiting the price increase to only the tariffed country means they’ll only lose out on the American market not the everyone else in the world market, which is bigger.

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  • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But why expensive? It’s 30$ more than the steam deck and has much more power

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s not more powerful than the steam deck.

      The steam deck is a portable computer the switch can only play switch games. Those games are hugely expensive, and the price is controlled by nintendo who infamously never decrease their game prices even after 10 years.

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And just give up America entirely? Nah

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But I repeat myself.

      Seriously I just explained why they don’t have a choice, and you’re like, nah they’re still going to do it, even though I literally explained why that can’t happen. Did you even read my comment?

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      • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oh, a random lemmygoer explained it? I guess there’s no opening for discussion then.

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• ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If the tariff is too great the cost becomes unspreadable. Spreading cost requires other regions to still afford the new price, and with numbers like this that’s unlikely.

  About one-third of Switches were sold in the US. Spreading a 145% tariff means hiking everyone’s prices by 40-50%. That will murder sales in other regions.

  Better to eat a 30% temporary loss that adds pressure on Trump to reverse-course than to eat an even higher loss and face backlash worldwide for making others pay for Trumps idiocy.

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  • OverTheFiniteSun@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To add to this: I’m in a region where the base Switch 2 price is already very unaffordable when you compare it with our wages and cost of living. And then you throw in the games… which Nintendo conveniently left out prices of for us (they did list the bundle though, so I’m extrapolating from that). But Nintendo won’t care since we’re already a very small market. But if they did that in more markets to the point of being unaffordable in most places? Sales would crash. There’s a reason they have a cheap region locked variant for the Japanese market.

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