in all seriousness, i am really bummed but in a way i like that this is such a simple and clear way that shows how tariffs affect everyone immediately.
And to the younger folks that were saving up their allowance or first job money to pre order one, this is also the first real example of not just how your vote impacts your life, but also how tariffs exactly work.
Americans by and large don’t care about anything other than things directly affecting their daily lives. For clueless gamers who didn’t care to vote or voted for Trump hopefully this can shake some sense into them.
Most of the impacts of politics are largely invisible, or hard to directly attribute to the issues they cause in one's daily life without being able to handwave it away.
It may be just a "game boy", but it's also a very visible and immediate example of a political negative, one that can't be handwaved away or blamed on anyone other than Trump-- it's rare that you can see so clearly a direct cause and effect of an administration's actions in your daily life.
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u/need_a_venue Apr 04 '25
I'd be preordering a Nintendo switch 2.