Submitted 11 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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.
I’m sorry, did I read that right? The president’s name is BOWSER??
Yeah and Nintendo also ruined the life of a person named Gary Bowser too.
So long Gary Bowser
Nintendo surely wouldn’t do something anti consumer would they?
Nintendo is a shitty company and companies in general do shitty anti consumer things, but passing along tariff costs isn’t one of these.
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.
That one is on America.
So something that I wonder about with the MSRP is how much of that is a Nvidia tax that inflated the price? The Nvidia GPU market has been so absolutely screwed by Nvidia’s lack of competition pricing model.
nVidia genuinely does not care about gaming. It is just a way to have a few extra bins to increase effective yields for their datacenter/AI chips. If Nintendo wants to buy in bulk they’ll sell in bulk. And if Nintendo doesn’t like nVidia’s prices they can talk to AMD… like the other consoles did.
Most speculation was around 400 USD for the switch itself for the given specs, tooling, etc. The Steam Deck is a different process but their LCD model is pretty indicative. 450 was a bump that would account for economic uncertainty and give them room to drop back down for regular discounts and the like.
Then trump trumped the bed and the previously expected buffer zone just isn’t enough. Which is why we are seeing the massive price hike.
Backwards compatibility means they might not be able to talk to AMD unfortunately, depending on how the software is set up I’d assume.
Business to business is different than the consumer market. Nintendo comes to Nvidia and orders a custom product with a minimum order of 10 million chips, Nvidia wants that deal. They aren’t going to arbitrarily increase the price because they can because Nintendo can and will move to another vendor. Nvidia wouldn’t risk fucking up a long-standing relationship like that, especially since Nintendo is a repeat customer, and they can rely on repeat business from them each year. These are long standing relationships that don’t just fall apart that quickly unless one party wants to drastically change what they are doing.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wasn’t even going to pay $449, let alone $600. I figured it would have been somewhere between $300-400, with 400 being on the high end of reasonable.
$449 I would have waited a bit. But $600??? I get it’s because of tarrifs, but that’s really going to hurt the systems long term sales numbers the same way covid hurt PS5’s lifetime sales numbers.
venoft@lemmy.world 11 months ago
New PS5’s and other consoles will also get way more expensive. So relatively the switch is still the same price at 600, compared to everything else.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Until MY pay goes up, that just means everything is more expensive, and I won’t be buying new things.
dota__2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
thing is ps6 and whatever god forsaken name they come up for the next xbox are still multiple years out, no?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 months ago
…stop being right! I got angry reading that, but when I clicked reply to yell at you, I realized it was all emotional backlash on my end. I couldn’t formulate a thought process to show why you’re wrong. Because you’re not wrong. I just hate that you’re right!
kmartburrito@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah I’m not in it at either price point. I’ll for once be a patient gamer and wait until it’s reasonable or I’ll skip this one. I’m betting there’s lots like us.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Katana314@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tip: The price comes down If Trump gets impeached.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh good. That means it should already be 2X lower then, right?
EarMaster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can hope there will be a sudden price drop in about 5 years…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
hehe prices only drop temporarily for sales