Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser has responded to the delay of Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders across the US in the wake of Trump's new tariffs.

TL;DR: Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser discussed with Wired the impact of new tariffs on the Nintendo Switch 2, which may increase its price from $449 to $600. The tariffs affect manufacturing in Vietnam, Cambodia, and China. Nintendo is assessing the situation, having already moved some production out of China.

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Nintendo is a shitty company and companies in general do shitty anti consumer things, but passing along tariff costs isn’t one of these.

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Right. The only difference between a tariff and a VAT, is that the VAT applies to all products indiscriminately, where as a tariff only applies to imported goods.

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