Comment on Nintendo sues to prevent Trump from dodging full tariff refunds

• themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s the insane part.

  The companies charges the people for the tarrifs = gets their money.

  The companies sues the government for the money they took from the people = gets more money.

  Almost like that was the plan to begin with.

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  • Smoke@beehaw.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No way Nintendo took a hit to sales from prices + tariffs on purpose, not to mention spending legal fees, just so they’d get the money they would have got from being greedy assholes which they already were.

    It only took a month before Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa foreshadowed tariff-linked price increases, a game industry news site closely monitoring Nintendo’s tariff moves reported. In May, Furukawa conceded that software wasn’t as impacted, but “hardware involves special factors such as tariffs,” which Nintendo must take into account, “while conducting careful and repeated deliberations when determining price.”

    However, Furukawa said that the overall calculus for Nintendo weighed against increasing the Switch 2 price even more to cover tariffs, because seemingly Nintendo feared a higher price point would rob Switch 2 of sales and its games of exposure.

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