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

• Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago

      They were going to increase the prices regardless of world conditions

      All of them, at exactly the same time?

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      • nomy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sure, price fixing is a thing that happens all the time even though it’s illegal.

        Why do you guys defend corporations? They’ve shown time and time and again they’re pure evil motivated only by profit. They don’t get the benefit of the doubt.

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      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Why wouldn’t they? Once a few start increasing their prices, others will either have to (such as small businesses when their suppliers increase prices), or will follow suit out of immense greed (GPU manufacturers already made huge net profit, they didn’t need more). All it takes is for a few businesses at the bottom to start turning the valves and the whole system falls apart, regardless of economy.

        This is why when prices go up during a bad economy, once the economy is good the prices never ever go back to the amount they were before. Ever. The prices go up and always stay up.

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  • ShadowRam@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago

      how much you paying for gas?

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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