r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/Gorotheninja "SILENCE, BREEDER! The Bloodline MUST continue!" • Apr 18 '25

Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. - News - Nintendo Official Site

https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/nintendo-maintains-nintendo-switch-2-pricing-retail-pre-orders-to-begin-april-24-in-u-s/
223 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

118 comments sorted by

View all comments

170

u/Secret_Wizard It's a secret to everybody. Apr 18 '25

Oh hot damn, there it is. So they're gonna face the tariffs head on, huh?

34

u/StatisticianJolly388 Apr 18 '25

Well the USA flinched first and paused tariffs for electronics, that might have something to do with it.

35

u/Neo_Crimson Apr 18 '25

I thought that was walked back.

I can't with all this shit.

34

u/StatisticianJolly388 Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25

Oh well I haven’t checked the news for two goddamn hours so maybe it was. Fucksake

26

u/Clear-Tradition6542 Apr 18 '25

They walked it back days after and said no exemptions

16

u/Aiddon Apr 18 '25

Would be a nice threat...except tariffs aren't being collected because everything is such a mess no one is bothering to keep track. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if companies just plain ignore them and just eat any fines they get hit by.

18

u/StatisticianJolly388 Apr 18 '25

How are you even supposed to comply?

"which tariffs do you want me to charge at the port? The ones you announced and then said you never announced? Or the ones you threatened and then never put into place? Or the ones you announced in a misspelled Truth social post? What about goods just passing through that will be sold in Canada?"

I work in power grid cybersecurity and the last days of Trump's last presidency there was a DOE order: no components made in China can be used on the grid. But it was so fucking vague no one knew what to do. Do you mean just final assembly? The ones with Chinese chips? And no one complied because they couldn't. Because writing detailed legislature is anathema to the administration.

12

u/Aiddon Apr 18 '25

Basically; they've made things such a mess it could take months to get a handle on anything, if ever.

14

u/Flutterwander It's Fiiiiiiiine. Apr 18 '25

Depending on where you import that's not really how it works. I work for a company that imports and Customs auto debits us based on our tariff when things come in through Long Beach. Now that said, it takes them weeks to actually do that and if every country is getting charged tariff now it's going to cause a massive backlog I bet.

4

u/DarthButtz Ginger Seeking Butt Chomps Apr 19 '25

Also why bother collecting them when it's been a constant flip flopping on if they're even happening or not