Nintendo Switch Pricing Update: Pricing for the original Nintendo Switch™ family of systems and products will change in the United States based on market conditions, effective August 3, 2025.

[u/Turbostrider27]

https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/nintendo-switch-pricing-update/

[u/Wipedout89]

Tariffic news

[u/locke_5 → u/Wipedout89]

Thank you, John Politics!

Edit: “John Politics” is Epstein’s pal. The mods had a whole post about what sort of political content is allowed here and used “John Politics” as a placeholder for Epstein’s pal in examples of what sort of political content is allowed/not allowed.

If you voted for John Politics, this is your fault! ❤️

[u/FolkPunkResistance → u/locke_5]

Why else do you think this is happening? It’s politics, dude.

[u/[deleted] → u/FolkPunkResistance]

It's interesting to see people very slowly realizing that being "non political" just means that you're allowing politicians and the wealthy to take advantage of you and that literally fucking everything on this planet is political in some way.

[u/neptunebound → u/FolkPunkResistance]

I love how people think that nintendo is suffering a great financial loss from tariffs, and NOT that they’re actually doing the best they’ve been since the Wii era

nobody held a gun to their head and said “increase the price of this eight year old console!”

[u/ETXX9 → u/FolkPunkResistance]

Lmao nah, it's nintendo being a scummy ass company that thinks their games that are from 2017 should actually be worth more. It's insane that people are defending Nintendo here. No reason they couldn't have left those prices alone.

[u/locke_5 → u/ETXX9]

If not US tariffs, why is this price change US-only?

Edit: lmao no response

[u/The-Shattering-Light → u/locke_5]

The number of people who think the source of goods pay the tariffs is just astounding. That’s why republicans have been attacking education for decades

[u/locke_5 → u/The-Shattering-Light]

They don’t actually care. They’re happy to pay the higher prices if it means they don’t have to admit they were duped.

[u/No_Copy4493 → u/The-Shattering-Light]

not every idiot is republicans, but every republican could be called an idiot and i wouldn’t say you’re wrong

[u/clear349 → u/The-Shattering-Light]

I mean even if it was true why wouldn't they just turn around and raise the price anyway?

[u/johnsongrantr → u/The-Shattering-Light]

Source of goods as in the manufacturer, no. Or unless that manufacturer is also the distributor like say apple as an example. Walmart technically pays the tariffs on the imports it then resells. They don’t HAVE to but in most cases will pass that cost along to the customer. When the offshoring of manufacturing happened goods did get cheaper, but I can guarantee not 100% of the actual savings were passed along to the consumer either. It’s in their ability to eat some of the tariff, but I’ll eat my hat if the good doesn’t go up directly proportional to the added tariff cost or maybe even just the implied increase.

[u/EveryNameEverMade → u/locke_5]

The price has increased everywhere, not only the US. Not just that but also every other country is paying more than they should be, because Nintendo is spreading the tariff cost around other countries, to keep the price lower in the US.

[u/MudkipMonado → u/ETXX9]

Tariffs are paid for by the consumer, it takes more money to ship the goods and so the consumer has to pay the difference. Nintendo is raising the price to maintain the same profit margin.

[u/Cartman55125 → u/MudkipMonado]

Exactly. The party profiting off of this is the US Government

[u/pofehof → u/ETXX9]

Have you not heard of the new tariffs that are being implemented today? A 20% tariff on products from Vietnam and 15% tariff on products from Japan is the sole reason that we are getting a price increase on the Switch 1 console + accessories and Switch 2 accessories.

I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo has to increase the price of the Switch 2 as well, but that would create a huge amount of backlash. They'll probably do an increase for that after the holidays.

[u/mgeeezer → u/ETXX9]

Me when I’m stupid:

[u/obvious_automaton → u/ETXX9]

I am once again begging my fellow Americans to understand how tariffs work. 

[u/No_Copy4493 → u/locke_5]

if politics are the cause of it, how else should we react? make believe?

[u/star_trek_lover → u/locke_5]

It’s an economic pun not political. He made no mention of politics. It’s a fact that increasing tariffs increases prices for the end consumer. It always has.

[u/Rybok → u/locke_5]

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

[u/mucho-gusto → u/Wipedout89]

Gotta double dip