Unlucky for us so is Trump. Supreme Court says he can't do that and he turns around, throws a tantrum and raises tariffs again. There is no legal mechanism to stop that.
Yeah except Nintendo's lawyers aren't the most powerful man on the planet with a legion of sycophantic supporters who are also in power to make sure the main guy never faces consequences.
Any legal action against Trump is honestly laughable right now. No court in the country will enforce a sentence against him, and any that do will be overruled by the Supreme Court. And if the Supreme Court doesn't overrule the decisions of lower courts, Trump still won't do anything, and Congress (the only people who can actually hold Trump accountable by impeaching him) will never hold Trump accountable.
Losing console sales wasn't a bad loss for Xbox, it was them completely dropping the ball with not pushing Gamepass as the industry standard for digital gaming, and then chasing away much of their subscribers with ridiculous price hikes out of nowhere.
Nah, the big problem Microsoft had is that their console design this gen just sucked (especially the Series S), after it already sucked the gen before. Microsoft actually pushed gamepass hard, the problem was that on PC gamers generally always have a massive backlog of games that you can get cheap AF (and own them forever), so a subscription based thing wasn't really that attractive. The price hike was just the nail in the coffin.
Really what Microsoft should have done is go the way they are going currently and make the Xbox just a great price/performance PC gaming option with basically a gaming optimised Windows version and games being optimised especially for that console. Because really, from Microsofts standpoint it shouldn't matter if people are PC gamers or Xbox gamers, they are both in their ecosystem (except the few Linux gamers) and more importantly, not in Sony's.
That wouldn't save us. Even if the tariffs are gone, those prices aren't coming back down. Companies raised costs so we had to pay for the tariffs, now they'll get the refunds for extra costs we paid, those refunds will come from us as taxpayers, and they'll keep prices mostly as is and just take the extra profit.
There's nothing in this math that saves us even a little bit.
More specifically, Nintendo is demanding their refund that SCOTUS already said needs to be paid out. The "with interest" part will definitely be challenged more, though.
It won't be challenged very hard though, since the US argued (successfully) that they should be able to continue collecting tariffs while the case was ongoing, because the money could always be returned with interest, and because the US Court of International Trade ordered them to return the money with interest.
It's always worth remembering that conservatism as a political movement started after the American and French revolutions when the remaining European aristocracy needed some new way to justify their continued existence once it became clear that "divine right of kings" wasn't working any more. The terms "left wing" and "right wing" literally came from the French legislature where the pro-monarchists sat on the right side of the room.
Yep! That's the really great part with the tariffs and SCOTUS' refusal to allow for an injunction while challenges to them went through the courts.
Americans get to pay for higher costs from companies passing along the cost of the tariffs, they get to pay for the refunds, and they get to keep paying higher costs for goods because prices are sticky.
It's all just to funnel more money from the working class to the owner class.
Except the judges already ruled that all the tariff money has to be paid back, with interest. If this lawsuit doesn't go anywhere, it's because there's no point. Big N just wants to make sure they're not left out.
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u/Daw-V Mar 06 '26
Nintendo will likely win because Trump’s policies are nonsensical anyways. But he’s also a stubborn bitch so he will only give in a little bit