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The Switch 2's price won't be impacted by Japan's new tariffs, but its games might (www.thegamer.com)
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[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

What do they mean by Japan's tariffs? It's not ours, it's the stupid Americans that's imposing them.

[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

No, no, you don't get it. It's the other country that pays the tariffs.. duh.

[-] dwev@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well, Nintendo increased the sale price on NS2 in Europe and Australia to compensate for the tariffs in the US, so they could keep the end-user price down for US consumers even with tariffs. This effectively shifted the cost of the tariffs to European and Australian consumers, which is why I have sworn off Nintendo for good.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

I get that Nintendo's policy is fucking you and the good friends in Europe and Australia, but it still makes the title misleading. My (Japanese) government didn't impose the tariff on Nintendo products — the Americans' did.

[-] dwev@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh right - the journalist screwed it up. I just got angry about Nintendo’s response to the “American Import Taxes” I ended up grumbling about that. Sony did the same thing, so console gaming is becoming more ethically restrictive. :(

[-] skeezix@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Affected, not impacted. Never use the word impacted when you mean affected. Use impacted when bodies collide.

[-] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

At first I was thinking, why not use "impacted", it sounds a little bit awkward, but I've definitely seen it being used in relatively formal situations (or at least that's what I remember).

But no, I looked it and "impacted" should not be used in the sense of affected. TIL.

[-] mohab@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Where did you look it up?

Merriam-Webster defines it as:

the force of impression of one thing on another : a significant or major effect

And lists "affect" as a synonym when impact is used as a verb.

[-] emb@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Impact, impacted, impacts are totally fine for these use cases. As a native English speaker, I'd never heard of these rules against using them that way.

But even if there is a rule, it doesn't matter; if the terms are used this way and fully understood by both the speaker and listeners, then the rule is void.

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