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Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm going to save so much money by not going to the US to buy one of those... I wonder what I'll do with all that wealth.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Only 4.125% of the world population is affected. No biggy.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

for the US

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.”

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

its nintendo, im sure they’re going to find some way to raise the price for everyone else too

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I’ll probably be able to play the games on my pc soon enough anyway

[+] [email protected] -25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then why are you getting angry while checking this sub and this post? Seems like you're also getting worked up over it.

I'm sorry you're in a bad situation, I get it, I'm also not in a situation where I could even buy the switch 2 even if I wanted to. But this is a big deal, the USA have fucked themselves up in the ass so hard that people outside of it might get hit with it. The price of the switch 2 is just one of the tips of this iceberg, the price of the PS5 is another, but in a short while the same thing will start to happen to lots of electronics, including hospital ones, which could increase the price for everyone depending on how this plays out.

Unfortunately for the rest of us the US is a BIG extremely consumer market, and if they get taken off the picture the profit margin decreases and prices need to hike to keep up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sorry to hear about your situation - I'm in a somewhat similar financial position myself - but people are people, and in any income bracket there are things to be concerned about.

For you and me, it's getting enough money to eat. For someone else, it is affording a Switch. For others, it's the rise in the price of caviar forcing them into cheaper options.

Interestingly enough, all of this causes a significant amount of stress, and should you eventually get more money to spare, then after a brief euphoria you'll have the same worries about Switch prices and other things you don't seem to care about now.

In any case, I wish you all the best and hope you'll find your way out of a situation. Hope your spouse gets the surgery and becomes able to work, you have your teeth, and everyone lives a bit happier going forward.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And if you go to Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Congo, people are worried about losing limbs, life and actual stage 1 Maslow survival. They probably envy your problems right now. They keep focused on shit that actually matters, like not dying.

Yeah, people care about different things related to their circumstances. That's life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I think the takeaway is "The Nintendo Switch 2 isn't the thing you should be pissed about when these tariffs are going to cause a lot more problems for way more people."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Noone is disagreeing with your concerns. They are disagreeing with your selfrighteous stance that your problems are the most important.
Using a switch gaming thread for self pity is some major narcissism red flag.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

And there are those who have it even harder than YOU. Everyone's station in life is different. They are allowed to experience that.

If they are being insensitive to your concerns, then maybe they are not a good friend, but it sounds like you're the one insensitive to their concerns. You can both have different concerns.

Also this is literally a Switch post in a gaming community amd you self selected this complaint in here. It's telling.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And there are those who have it even harder than YOU. Everyone's station in life is different. They are allowed to experience that.

I've never understand the logic of the people who espouse that line of thinking. Is only the one single person alive who has it the literal worst out of all the billions of living human beings allowed to feel bad, and everyone else is obliged to look at them and say "well it could technically be worse so I guess I'm not allowed to feel bad"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I think you're taking the meaning too far. It's not that someone in a bad position is not allowed to feel bad. Rather, you have to consider the context in each case. A friend could be having a hard time, and even if your situation is technically worse, that doesn't invalidate theirs. Because if you are willing to invalidate your friend's difficulties, by that same token you could say your own are invalidated by those in an even worse position than yours.

Essentially I'm saying that everyone's life is different and their worries are valid. Yes, perhaps it can be a touch tone-deaf for one person in a privileged position to complain about something relatively trivial. But for someone to assert that their situation is infinitely more important, and that their friend shouldn't be allowed to complain about their own experiences... it reeks of envy and narcissism.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

This is an odd place to put this complaint. You clicked on a post about the Switch. Make a post about struggling with money and the discussion should focus on that instead.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Sony: we‘ll make it a little more expensive for everyone else, so no one feels left out <3

Nintendo: t(°-°t)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What you meant to say was
Sony: we'll let the whole world pay for the fascist bullshit the US is pulling <3

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wasn't going to buy it anyway with those prices

[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

That's fine. Nintendo was already planning to impose the Nintendo tax. So I imposed the "I ain't buyin' this shit tax".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I wasn't going to get one even if it was £20, but how? Trump set the tariffs. Obviously it's going to cost a shitload more if there is a 145% tariff in the US.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks half the voting country too. You got neighbors who asked for this.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Wondering how this is going to play out. A Switch for $600+ is borderline insane.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Lol. That 600+ is JUST the extra tax. That's on top of the base price

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Its insane that a tax is also charged on top of the already applied tariff.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

They will just put the games at 100 each, not including DLC

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Out of all the people it’s gamers that will put trump out of office.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ya? While sitting on your ass? Doubt.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably gamers put him in office in the first place. Steve Bannon capitalized on Gamergate and started latching on to it to recruit young white male gamers to the far right. Then these GamerGate proponents became manosphere followers.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You say that but I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if gamers as a demographic are more liberal than average.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe the general gaming public but probably not among capital G Gamers™ who are the loud minority on the internet.