"sont wanna buy my overpriced console? Fuck you they are all overpriced now." - John Nintendo
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2025
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This does make me wonder how much Nintendo are subsidising US bound Switch 2s, considering the price on that hasn't increased since launch (yet). Maybe they think it's worth it to take a hit on it and try and make it up with higher priced software?
they are insane
I saw an article today that said: nearly everyone who bought a switch 2, bought mario kart. Wow that's crazy how they bought the only game for the console.
But the shouty man on TV told me tariffs were good? Why vibeo janes cost more?
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So price increase in the US due to tariffs, as expected, but they raised the prices in Canada too? What kind of bullshit is that? Fuck you, Nintendo.
Likely Canada is part of the same US supply chain. If devices are shipped first to somewhere like California before being distributed north across the border, or something. They'd be hit by tariffs after arriving in the US and then the cost extends to wherever those devices are eventually sold.
That's how tariff pricing always works. Doesn't matter if the tariff pricing affects them or not, they'll raise prices as much as they can.
Video game console prices didn’t rise because Brazil has high tariffs on electronics.
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They need to make up lost money somewhere. It's probably easier for them to raise prices everywhere than raise US ones even more. Especially since a Canadian switch is the same thing.
Do they lump North America altogether?
It’s possible they ship to Canada via USA
they probably lump all of the americas. As in they likely enter via USA and are redistributed there, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.
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I’ll play my backlog
Interesting timing with tariffs and the Switch 2 release, especially with prices rising in Canada as others have mentioned.
It is kind of perfect timing to blame a price increase on tariffs when the real reason is to upsell to the new product line. Especially for docked players the OLED S1 at $400 vs S2 at $450 now seems like an easy decision to upgrade your purchase for the performance.
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