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Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’
(www.videogameschronicle.com)
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this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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If the tariff is too great the cost becomes unspreadable. Spreading cost requires other regions to still afford the new price, and with numbers like this that's unlikely.
About one-third of Switches were sold in the US. Spreading a 145% tariff means hiking everyone's prices by 40-50%. That will murder sales in other regions.
Better to eat a 30% temporary loss that adds pressure on Trump to reverse-course than to eat an even higher loss and face backlash worldwide for making others pay for Trumps idiocy.