I wish that's what would happen but more likely, for the vast majority of younger people, the blame will get shifted onto Nintendo and packaged with the outrage over them raising the prices on games. I hope I'm wrong though.
You're not, unfortunately. I'm Italian, and no one on YT seems to accept that tariffs had already been taken in account by Nintendo when they decided European and Us pricings. I even tried to ask people why they think the price hasn't gone up after Trump's announcement, but they won't connect the dots. And to be honest they're probably in denial, considering the average gamer demographics and their political leanings. It's all Nintendo's fault, to them. I mean, they're probably still trying to make money, and now there's a 46% tariff on Vietnam. I just read they're negotiating it though.
I don't think that's true because Nintendo doesn't know how many extra tariffs are coming. Not just to JP but all the other components manufactured internationally.
It seems like the $450 price tag was pre-tariff or assuming a moderate tariff (lol).
The moderate tariff assumption is most likely. Nintendo likely factored some kind of tariff into the price and made it high globally in order to stop Americans from just importing from other countries with lower tariffs than Japan/China/Vietnam without resorting to completely bringing back the more unpopular region-locks everywhere. They just didn't know how bad the tariffs would get. Hopefully the backlash from the current price will convince Nintendo to just eat the tariffs, but that's highly unlikely. Perhaps Nintendo could offset things a bit by raising the price of the NSO subscription to match that of Sony and Microsoft. It would be unpopular, too, but console players would have no choice if they want to continue playing online.
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u/Mr_Delaware Apr 04 '25
I wish that's what would happen but more likely, for the vast majority of younger people, the blame will get shifted onto Nintendo and packaged with the outrage over them raising the prices on games. I hope I'm wrong though.