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Nintendo Boss Shuts Down Leftist Talking Point that Trump’s Tariffs Caused High ‘Switch 2’ Console Price
Breitbart ^ | 04/08/2025 | Lucas Nolan

Posted on 04/08/2025 9:21:50 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Nintendo is facing criticism over the high price tag of its upcoming Switch 2 console, which is set to launch at $450 in the U.S. Despite leftists eager to blame Donald Trump’s tariffs for the console’s high price, Nintendo of America’s top boss has now said that tariffs had nothing to do with the hotly-anticipated gaming machine’s price.

TechSpot reports that Nintendo has found itself in the midst of a controversy surrounding the pricing of its highly anticipated Switch 2 console. The Japanese gaming giant recently announced that the Switch 2 will launch at a price point of $450 in the United States, a significant increase from the original Switch’s $300 launch price. This announcement has been met with backlash from gamers who feel the price is too high, with leftists and the media immediately blaming Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 449not450; boss; breitbart; console; down; high; japan; leftist; lucasnolan; nintendo; nitendo; point; price; shuts; switch2; talking; tariff; tariffs; techspot; trumps
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1 posted on 04/08/2025 9:21:50 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m not a gamer, but $450 for literally many thousands of hours of mind-numbing digital dopamine seems like quite a bargain.


2 posted on 04/08/2025 9:29:08 AM PDT by PGR88
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I don’t follow the consoles much, but from what I understand Nintendo doesn’t go for the woke games or developers. I’ve yet to see an Assassin’s Creed: Gay Black Samurai, or a Grand Theft Girlboss, pronouns in Starfield or Battletech, and finally a medieval fantasy game where you can customize your character to have mastectomy scars.


3 posted on 04/08/2025 9:35:03 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sega launched the Saturn in the US at $500, in 1995-96 thereabouts. Video games have remained pretty cheap when looking back


4 posted on 04/08/2025 9:35:45 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: PGR88

The console is 500 bucks including the mario kart game..people were complaining about the price BEFORE the tariffs took effect I think Nintendo was looking for an excuse to deal with the backlash over the price


5 posted on 04/08/2025 9:43:13 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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I guess I never researched if these newer woke version of games were made like:

Donkey Congo: Child Slave Mines Edition
Pole Positions for Pole Dancing
White Invaders
Pac Man-on-Man with Energizers
Ms Pac Man vs Ms Pac Man: Trans Wins
Paperboy: Grooming Recruiting
Grand Tesla Vandals
Zaxxon: no need to change the gay name

6 posted on 04/08/2025 9:50:01 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nintendo is using the Apple method of pricing everything 100% more than it should be...


7 posted on 04/08/2025 10:18:06 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
I think Nintendo was looking for an excuse to deal with the backlash over the price

The article states that the top guy says the price has nothing to do with the tariffs...

8 posted on 04/08/2025 10:22:12 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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It’s priced at $449.99 which is very reasonable for that kind of thing.

Games for Nintendos are mostly much more child-safe than the Steam Deck stuff (and the Steam hardware not be cheap).

Also, gamers won’t blink about paying a little extra due to tariffs, if that actually happens.

Nintendo is said to be delaying US availability, but that could easily be a production problem.

There are some requirements for buying them, to avoid the scalping problems the company has had starting with the Wii.


9 posted on 04/08/2025 10:30:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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At the 2017 launch of the original Switch, Nintendo was motivated to stimulate adoption of its new platform, ensuring a competitive posture against Xbox, Sony PlayStation, and others. They now have a well-established and loyal clientele. That their new Switch 2 platform has a premium price vs. the original should surprise no one.

Additionally, per usinflationcalculator.com, the cummulative rate of inflation from 2017 to 2025 is 30.2%, meaning the console would have to be priced at ~$390, just to break-even on a constant-dollar basis. So coming in at $450 should surprise no-one.

If they want to assign blame, more of that $150 increase vs. the original is due to Bidenomics than Trump-onomics.


10 posted on 04/08/2025 10:36:41 AM PDT by Be Free (A pardon carries an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it. USSC: Burdick v. US)
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It’s been a brutal release with rumors flying and not a great deal of clarification coming from Nintendo in time to stem the chaos. I’m not a console gamer so this one sort of snuck up on me and I’m trying to catch up. The CEO is correct, though, as most of this stuff was set in motion well before Trump took office. In perspective, though, PC gamers are looking at dropping $2000 for the latest and greatest graphics cards (RTX 5090) if they can even find them. It’s a different world from my old Pong game...


11 posted on 04/08/2025 10:39:28 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Hot Tabasco

They knew to milk the price because heck people are gonna pay regardless..I was willing to pay the 500 bucks, heck Im even to pay a little more even with tariffs to get one..the June 5th release date is still in effect they just are holding off on pre orders for now(Canada was supposed to have their pre orders done tomorrow but Nintendo today announced its off for now, pretty dick move, they could have said that days ago)


12 posted on 04/08/2025 12:23:51 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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I was willing to pay the 500 bucks, heck Im even to pay a little more even with tariffs to get one.

So you still play computer games at your age?.....not that that's a bad thing.

13 posted on 04/08/2025 4:26:23 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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Its for my nephew for his graduation he’s graduating in May he wants one


14 posted on 04/08/2025 4:57:51 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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15 posted on 04/23/2025 6:44:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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