Comment on Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions'

lemmyng@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ShadowRam@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  /s aside,

  Trump had as much as an effect of GPU/RAM/SSD prices as Biden had on inflation.

  Which was none.

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  • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t think unpredictable tariffs and rampant deregulation across the entire economy have had an effect on prices?

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Plus oil prices going up due to blocking the Straight of Hormuz, which in turn increases transportation costs

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    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Okay, lets be real. The companies were frothing at the mouth just looking for an easy scapegoat excuse whether it fits or not. They were going to increase the prices regardless of world conditions as they pull in record profits quarter after quarter. Its just easy for them to blame tariffs or other things to take the heat off of the reality that they are just immensely greedy.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They were going to increase the prices regardless of world conditions

        All of them, at exactly the same time?

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    • ShadowRam@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, I'm not sure how US tariffs and US regulations have any effect on Japan, or UK, or Aus, or every other country in the world that also suffered inflation and high GPU/RAM/SSD prices.

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      • kevin2107@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        how much you paying for gas?

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh come on, not even you believe that.

    Trump literally put tariffs on everything. How could he not have an effect?

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    • ShadowRam@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh yes.. please explain how American's paying high prices for items they import somehow made the rest of the world pay more as well.

      I'd love to know how US Tariff's affected a Canadian company importing something from China.
      or how US Tariff's affected India importing stuff from Japan.

      Please explain...

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      • caseofthematts@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A lot of product to Canada comes up through Amerocan trade routes.

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