Switch 2 Price Likely To Increase As Nintendo Pulls US Preorders Over Trump's New Tariff Policies

Diaper Don strikes again.

I haven't bought a Nintendo console since the Gamecube, and it looks like that won't change any time soon. Haven't been keen on the direction Nintendo have taken in the last 10-15 years. I know I've probably missed out on a number of great games, but still.

Nintendo is doomed since 1983.

Nintendo has been trying to succeed with these prices for years and the fact of the matter is that they will not.

The system is going to flop hard, there is no stimulus check (which is why PS5 succeeded) and there will be no redemption for Nintendo afterwards.

It's all low quality, laggy garbage and this system will probably flop harder than Wii U.

My body is ready for the increase! Let’s go already for we can get pre orders in! Sky is the limit baby!!!!!

Imagine.

There was a group of people who were complaining about paying too much in taxes and the price of living.

So they put someone in charge who'll give them more taxes and make stuff more expensive. And now they're trying to spin it as an improvement.

$450 for a game console + up to $100 per game w/ taxes(worst part)+ pay for Nintendo Switch online subscription.

Why the hell would you pay 80-100 (including taxes) for a game? I get most of my games off xbox game pass on my PC for $10 a month. I occasionally pay $60 for a ps 5 game, but thats pretty rare. These free games include NG4, Balders gate, Forza, Ninja Gaiden 2 black, Far Cry, Diablo, Halo infinite, Doom The Dark Ages. All my cell phone games are free. Occasionally I will get steam deals for $20 a game.

To play Mario or Zelda for close to $100 with tax when you can get so many games free with Microsoft and Sony game passes(which include God of war and the Last of Us) on PC/ps5/xbox ? Really?

When I was growing up, Nintendo was known to be the cheapest, but now they are by far the most expensive. I would say that the Switch 2 is for rich families in USA/Europe/Japan/South Korea. Disappointed in Nintendo for going from the cheapest gaming option for the poor, to the most expensive for the rich. Its unattainable for poorer families and those in developing nations.

These rididulous N jokers already shipped the Switch 2 in January? So it is already produced? And let their fans wait until June?

Hmmm, a lot of existing Switch owners will be looking at this & thinking 'do I actually need this right now?' Same if a new Steam Deck came out, especially if it's simply viewed as an upgrade, rather than a significant hardware boost.

The problem for Nintendo is just unbelievably bad timing. Even if the tarrifs war wasn't happening, I think the Switch 2 is a hard sell, given the cost & all the other weird stuff they're pricing right now around the product. $80:00 for a game is absolutely nuts. That just doesn't compute with me & even though I have a decent disposable income, it just irks me that I'd have to shell out that kinda money for one game. Not so bad if you can play a demo & make an informed choice based on that but nah, not happening.

So glad I have a top-of-the-line PC available to me and a XSX.

Right now, Nintendo is at the bottom of most people list as entertainment is the easiest to do without as it is a want but not a need and has nothing to do with any of the basics needs.

President Trump isn’t the problem. He’s been fixing the country.

*Looks and see the web links go directly to CNN*

GTFO!

$450 for a game console + up to $100 per game w/ taxes(worst part)+ pay for Nintendo Switch online subscription.

Why the hell would you pay 80-100 (including taxes) for a game? I get most of my games free off xbox game pass on my PC for $10 a month. I occasionally pay $60 for a ps 5 game, but thats pretty rare. All my cell phone games are free. Occasionally I will get steam deals for $20 a game.

To play Mario or Zelda for close to $100 with tax when you can get so many games free with Microsoft and Sony game passes on PC/ps5/xbox ? Really?

When I was growing up, Nintendo was known to be the cheapest, but now they are by far the most expensive.

I'm just going to leave this here as yet another illustration of just how absurdly stupid these tariffs are.

By the numbers, the tariffs are less an expression of economic theory and more a Dadaist art piece about the meaninglessness of expertise. The Trump administration slapped 10 percent tariffs on Heard Island and McDonalds Islands, which are uninhabited, and on the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose residents are mostly American and British military service members.

One of the highest tariff rates, 50 percent, was imposed on the African nation of Lesotho, whose average citizen earns less than $5 a day. Why? Because the administration’s formula for supposedly “reciprocal” tariff rates apparently has nothing to do with tariffs. The Trump team seems to have calculated each penalty by dividing the U.S. trade deficit with a given country by how much the U.S. imports from it and then doing a rough adjustment. Because Lesotho’s citizens are too poor to afford most U.S. exports, while the U.S. imports $237 million in diamonds and other goods from the small landlocked nation, we have reserved close to our highest-possible tariff rate for one of the world’s poorest countries.

The notion that taxing Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is so absurd that I briefly lost consciousness in the middle of writing this sentence.

-Derek Thompson, the Atlantic

Full article if anyone wants to read the rest: https://archive.ph/32PE0

Good thing I live in Europe.

Whoever voted for Trump, enjoy your 600$ Switch 2.

very shortsighted if they raise the price of the console that people already thought was too high.

they need to get people in the gate to sell games, subs and services.

And when it doesn't sell they'll have to drop the price.