With innocent people being illegally abducted and wrongfully deported to El Salvador, I am astounded that there is so much concern about the Nintendo Switch 2. Seriously people!! Where are the priorities? WTF?!
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On Americans only? Right? 😟
Truly proof that gamers are the most oppressed people, its so joever /s
These tariffs shouldn't be 145% of the retail price, they should be 145% of the wholesale price.
Nintendo: "We also had to raise the price of digital games to $200."
"But tariffs don't apply to digital games."
Nintendo: "Ah, yeah. Well, whenever you notice something like that, tariffs did it."
"But why does the rest of the world have to pay the price, too?"
Nintendo: "TARIFFS!"
You‘re joking about it. I can hear the faint beeping of some LLM waiting to serve this to someone in power.
If Nintendo sues the Trump admin I'd have to finally side with Nintendo on a lawsuit.
Atleast this will radicalize the youth.
- for the US
its nintendo, im sure they’re going to find some way to raise the price for everyone else too
I mean, yeah, Sony just did it with its ps5
Haven't they already announced the price?
Yes, I could Pre-Order it right now for 469€, tax included.
In future history books: “…But the biggest exodus from the United States was after it was announced the Switch 2 would cost $1000 exclusively there.”
The price was going to be $499. A 145% tariff makes the price $1222.55. A 100% tariff would double the price and this is more than 100%.
Looks like pretty steep inflation fueled by tariffs. I wonder how the Denies Reality Party (DeRPs) will spin it.
Sony: we‘ll make it a little more expensive for everyone else, so no one feels left out <3
Nintendo: t(°-°t)
Sony: we‘ll make it a little more expensive for everyone else, so no one feels left out
Let me fix that for you:
Sony: We‘ll make it a little more expensive for everyone else so our US sales don't sink harder than a brick in a pond.
Companies really don't care about people feeling left out. Company's fear loss of sales. And that Trumps senseless antics by proxy of Sony make the PlayStation more expensive in my end of the world low key aggravates me, even if it's only 50 bucks.
America voted for this, we didn't.
The saddest part is America didn't vote for this either. Hell, most Americans didn't vote at all... Absolutely stupid? Welcome to the US!
What you meant to say was
Sony: we'll let the whole world pay for the fascist bullshit the US is pulling <3
Let me fix that for you:
Sony: we'll let the whole world pay astronomical amounts of money because it makes us rich! And if someone calls us on it, we'll say it's all because of the US!
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Will be hard with the preorders already out.
That's fine. Nintendo was already planning to impose the Nintendo tax. So I imposed the "I ain't buyin' this shit tax".
Wondering how this is going to play out. A Switch for $600+ is borderline insane.
Lol. That 600+ is JUST the extra tax. That's on top of the base price
145% of 450 is 652, you add those together and it’s essentially 1100$. And that’s before tax at the register in the US.
Its insane that a tax is also charged on top of the already applied tariff.
Don't forget to tip the self checkout.
Technically it isn't.
The company has a price for the product, importers import the product at that price (sometimes the importer will also be the manufacturer, but that doesn't actually make a difference as far as the calculation is concerned), then some official shows up and demands an import tariff, the important pays the tariff.
The shelf price is calculated as the total cost to the importer + a profit margin + sales tax. The tariff just gets lumped into the cost for the importer. Sales tax doesn't make a distinction about how the price is arrived at.
Yes, technically correct and I am not disputing your points.
But, we all know the cost of the tariff the local importer will need to pay the local government will be passed on to local consumers.
My distinction and argument is if the government said "we will increase taxes on all products at your local grocery store by 145℅" people would flip. But when the wording become we will tariff "other countries" people forget who actually pays that tariff.
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Hopefully gamers get together and protest Trump out of office for artificially bumping up the costs of goods.
Tarrifs = Tax
A tax that working people pay, in the country that set the tarriff.
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Thanks Trump for adding a 145% "tax" on my electronics. How am I supposed to afford anything now!?
Guess I may as well just go protest instead.
Thanks half the voting country too. You got neighbors who asked for this.
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