r/NintendoSwitch2 • u/Soplox • 1d ago

Officially from Nintendo Nintendo Switch 2 Preorders will not start on April 9 in the US thanks to the Tariffs

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"Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged."

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-switch-2-preorder-guide-mario-kart-world-bundle/1100-6530531/

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u/One-Salamander9685 1d ago

My theory was $450 was $400 (inflation adjusted price of switch at launch) plus what they guessed would be a ten percent tariff. Then the tariff came out as double that and they had to adjust.

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u/FrameSecret2209 1d ago

The Switch 2 is made in Vietnam. So quadruple that.

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u/Euresko 1d ago

46% today 

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u/LifeAcanthopterygii6 1d ago

It's the greatest, most beautiful tariff you've ever seen. Nobody did it like I did. It's a tremendous win for anyone wanting to buy a Switch 2.

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u/schuyywalker 1d ago

It was a prefect tariff. Some say the best tariff they’ve ever seen.

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u/SchoolboyHew 21h ago

I would suspect Vietnam will do anything in their power to negotiate a lower tariff. They are one of the biggest growth economies and can afford to lose American business. They are on instance where there is far more to lose.

I've heard negotiation is already happening. Will it be 0, no. But I would assume there will be relief within days/week(s)

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u/R4vi0981 1d ago

Actually it looks like they are about to make a deal with no tariffs for Vietnam. This news came out today.

Everyone is knee jerk reacting, but I bet Nintendo comes out in a few days and announces 70 dollar games and same price for console.

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u/carlogz 1d ago edited 1d ago

Can you give a source on this? The only thing I’m seeing is that Vietnam wants to talk to the US (just like every single country) about eliminating Tariffs but the US are not listening.

Edit: its not that the US is not listening but its more about Trump refusing to back down on the trade war

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/trump-tariffs-truth-social

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u/Mr_sunnshine 1d ago

Can you give a source on where the US isn’t listening?? Cuz of course they are.

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u/carlogz 1d ago

You are right i misspoke on this ill edit and change it to Trump not backing down on trade war.

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u/Educational_Copy3268 1d ago

Nope, he said Vietnam wants to drop their imaginary tariffs. So it’s obviously bullshit to stop the bleeding of the stock market 

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u/Fake_Diesel 1d ago

I find the wording of what he said confusing.

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u/Plants-Matter 1d ago

Don't worry, so does everyone who actually pays attention.

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u/BurzyGuerrero 1d ago

And then they'll change it again in a week.

Art of the deal.

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u/normalmighty 1d ago

This is the problem with all of the tariffs. Tariffs in general are not great, tariffs this high are bad, but this constant movement of tariffs completely destroys what positive outcome there are meant to be in exchange for all the pain. Nintendo isn't going to spend years getting a factory set up in the US to avoid tariffs that might disappear again at any time.

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u/tuenmuntherapist 1d ago

Imagine believing companies will lower prices again if tariffs are gone.

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u/rydan 1d ago

Nintendo is going to charge you full tariff on consoles already here. 

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u/R4vi0981 1d ago

Wrong, I just think there's a ton of propaganda and nobody really knows what's going on besides what they're being told, or they're first reaction is to just blame somebody.

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u/tuenmuntherapist 1d ago

Yeah the propaganda is telling people tariffs are good. The truth is, prices are rising due to tariffs. Thats literally what’s in front of us right now. Do you not see it?

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u/R4vi0981 1d ago

There's propoganda on both sides. Let me ask you this. Where is the statement from Nintendo? The official statement saying this? All I see are 3rd party outlets calming it, yet I've never seen Nintendo say this.

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u/HTH52 1d ago

You are saying propaganda but you are mostly just referring to speculation. There is a lot of speculation going on because of the constant uncertainty. The more uncertain things are, the more people will begin to speculate.

Either way this was all preventable and unnecessary.

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u/R4vi0981 1d ago

Well, speculation is theoretical, propaganda is more like statements. Nobody is saying "is Nintendo going to increase prices because of tariffs", they are cleverly wording it to seem like Nintendo is doing this in response to tariffs, and again where is the official statement from Nintendo? I've been searching for 15 minutes and can't find it. I think this is all fake, or speculation.

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u/HTH52 1d ago

The pre-order delay is 100% due to tariffs, as it is quoted in the article. The question is only whether the price is altered due to them at this point.

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u/Connor123x 1d ago

the third parties were reporting the actual official statement from Nintendo.

and being they mentioned tariffs, yes, the price will go up because it has to. you may want to read up on what a tariff is and who pays for it. nintendo may eat some of it, but at 46%, not all

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u/Humanitysceptic 1d ago

It's fake news mate.

Anything trump does that has a negative impact is fake.

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u/EnforcerGundam 1d ago

tariff are taxes dumbo goober

how do you not know this??

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u/tuenmuntherapist 1d ago

In came from Eddie Garcia:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardagarcia1?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

(Non linkedin info: https://theorg.com/org/golin/org-chart/eddie-garcia)

Mentioned here: https://www.theverge.com/news/643483/nintendo-switch-2-preorders-delayed-tariffs

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u/R4vi0981 1d ago

That's not an official statement from Nintendo.

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u/tuenmuntherapist 1d ago

It’s a statement from the senior manager of media relations at Nintendo. You know what? Fuck this I don’t care if you don’t want to see what it is.

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u/Objective-Review-359 1d ago

uh. he works for nintendo

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u/LogJamminWithTheBros 1d ago

Going for the "both sides" argument is so smooth brained. Are you 14?

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u/Humanitysceptic 1d ago

Trump supporter?

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u/LifeAcanthopterygii6 1d ago

When egg prices rise due to bird flue: fuck Biden!

When prices increase due to the orange cunt taxing the hell out of "y'all": hey, don't blame Trump!

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u/ReturnOfTheKeing 1d ago

Everyone is knee jerk reacting, but I bet Nintendo comes out in a few days and announces 70 dollar games and same price for console.

Lol, distilled delusion

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u/TheMrBoot 1d ago

lmao for real, the only thing we’ll be finding out is if the price stays the same or shoots up

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u/Yogurt_Ph1r3 1d ago

If DK is any indication they already planned on 70 dollar games.

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u/Spartan2170 1d ago

The tariffs also weren't expected to target the countries they moved manufacturing to in order to avoid tariffs against China. They weren't planning on him targeting Vietnam and Cambodia and now they're probably scrambling to figure out what to do.

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u/BJYeti 23h ago

Wait a few days and see really, Vietnam has already vowed to cut tariffs so tariffs might go down for Vietnam

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u/OuterWildsVentures 1d ago

I think tariffs are 40%

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u/spirit_boy_27 1d ago

46%

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u/alantaylor630 1d ago

100% correct on the tariff value. If this stays, the price of the Switch 2 could go from $449.99 USD for the base model to $656.98 USD. The price would then be raised on Canada as well since Nintendo uses a US port of entry. Given the +$180 over the US ticket price, Canada could expect $836 for the base. Or… Nintendo could use a Canadian port of entry with no tariffs on Vietnam and keep our price on par.

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u/Connor123x 1d ago

thats not how it works. its not based on port of entry. Its based on point of origin. I do this for a living.

The only way it gets tariffed in Canada if it comes in the States, goes to a nintendo warehouse and they do work on it.

So even if it comes into the port in the east coast, its immediately goes on a truck, train, whatever to Canada and there is no tariff.

That is why the preorders are still going to go in Canada

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u/alantaylor630 1d ago

If Nintendo is importing all of it on one port into the US, and paying the tariff/unit, then shipping it on trucks and planes into Canada, you can bet the Canadian price will reflect that too.

If Nintendo were to import from Vietnam’s directly into Canada, the price in Canada would remain the same. The US can still have their tariffs…

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u/Connor123x 1d ago

not how it works. There will be no tariff charged when it hits the port in the US because its not the final destination. I deal with this daily.

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u/alantaylor630 1d ago

Ok. I’ll take your word for it. If the price in Canada stays the same as the estimated new US price (or close) it’ll be the first time in a long time. Last time I remember prices being on par for launch was PS4 where it was $399 in both regions because the Canadian dollar was actually higher than the US dollar through the recession.

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u/R4vi0981 1d ago

Japan tariffs the US 46%, the US just tariffed Japan 26%, and people are going nuts. This is greed by Nintendo.

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u/ObjectiveList9 1d ago

Greed or not we're the ones that now have to pay for it, and we didn't have to before.

Additionally, Japan is not actually tariffing us 46%. The way these were calculated is flawed pretty substantially.
"[...]

They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. [...]"
source: https://archive.ph/aDlmp

source referenced via publication: https://archive.ph/208Ko

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u/R4vi0981 1d ago

So what's the real tariff percentage then?

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u/cheesemonk66 1d ago

Pretty complex as previously tariffs were on specific goods not everything

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u/R4vi0981 1d ago

I don't know who those sources you provided were from. He seems like he hates Trump, and I'd probably want a more neutral source.

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u/yomihasu 1d ago

"He seems like he hates Trump" yeah, objective facts and math tend to hate him. Funny how that works

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u/SirMotherfuckerHenry 1d ago

It's simple maths, you can check it for every country. And tariffs are usually, just like the other poster said, not a blanket fee for every product. It's for certain products to make sure the market is not flooded with foreign products (for example dairy is a common product to use tariffs for after a certain quota is reached).

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u/R4vi0981 1d ago

So, it's more complex than we're all lead to believe. I'm sure all the real info is tucked somewhere safe for us not to see. I do know that other countries, especially Asia are able to pay workers less, produce for less and are able to sell items for less in America. That much is obvious judging directly by the prices.

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u/BoltThrower84 1d ago

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/trumps-misleading-tariff-chart/

A link explaining why their numbers are insanely off. They had Vietnam at 90%! When it’s like around 15% and only on certain goods.

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u/atheist-bum-clapper 1d ago

It is quite incredible that the orange fool is able to sit there with numbers pulled out of his arse, and people believe him.

For example, Trump claimed the EU charges the US 39% tariffs. The actual answer is between 1-5%, depending on how you calculate it.

Hell, he claimed an uninhabited Australian island was charging the US tariffs.

He is deliberately destroying the global economy so him and his billionaire chums can buy things on the cheap.

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u/bubbs72 1d ago

This is greed by President Cheeto! Nintendo is covering the tariff costs....so $400 is now $584 with 46% tariff......

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u/normalmighty 1d ago

You need to look into those numbers bro. Those numbers Trump gave were absolute nonsense.

Best I can tell, he counted literally every tax that might be applied - including taxes that apply to domestic and international products alike - as a "tariff." Where there are tariffs, they're tariffs on specific individual products, and Trump added all the hyper focused niche tariffs together to add to the left number, when the tariffs he's responding with are the kinds of blanket country tariffs normally reserved for China and Russia. They're complete nonsense numbers.

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u/BlackerSpork 1d ago

So basically, according to Donnie, tariffs are somehow not taxes, but taxes are somehow tariffs.

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u/Tycoon004 23h ago

He took the trade deficit and divided it by Imports. That's the number he claims was the other countries tariff rate. He then cut that in half and smacked it on as a tariff. So really, it's absolutely pulled from his ass.

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u/Greenpoint_Blank 14h ago edited 14h ago

46%

Edit: so to put in perspective if Nintendo America has to pay the full tariff the base model will cost $670 and the bundle will cost $730.

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u/venue5364 1d ago

Except 450 was for non-us countries too

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u/cobaltorange 1d ago edited 1d ago

Unless you're in Japan, but only if you can speak Japanese. There's a Multi-Language version which is gonna cost you $470.

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u/Ashamed_Ad_8365 1d ago

It was 390 EUR in Europe, gotta remove 20% VAT from the original price to get one comparable with the US one.

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u/korkkis 1d ago

589€ in Finland

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u/venue5364 1d ago

390eur is 430usd so it's not a 10% add they did for the US.

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u/SirNarwhal 1d ago

The $450 price leaked literally before the elections even happened. It's wild how dumb the line of thinking of the $450 being due to tariffs announced this week on a product that has been in the works since like 2021 is.

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u/predator-handshake OG (joined before reveal) 21h ago

Did it leak? All prices points were “leaked”, someone was bound to be right

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u/radiant_kai 6h ago

I'd go a step further and say if Trump wasn't president currently Nintendo would have priced $399 and $449 and ate the rest due to how well the stock market was in the US early January 2025.

Nintendo would have still had $80 games though, this would be a better way to get the discounted system price loss back and not look bad. This would have been easier for everyone to 'take the pill' of new game prices. Maybe buy less in the short-term.

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u/Aleclom 1d ago

Yeah same. This is awful.

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u/korkkis 1d ago

25-50% tariff. 600-700 dollars baby!

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u/FrostyD7 1d ago

I agree. A lot of people think the tariffs will make it $600 or whatever but that's just not how it works. They very likely baked in some tariff risk, but it's hard to plan for it to be this bad. So it might need to go up, at least a little.

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u/Robin_games 1d ago

I'm guessing $575 to 600

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u/MadCybertist 1d ago

It’s 46% lol. It’s going up even more. Even if they adjusted some presumptively, it’s still another 30% let’s say. So you’re looking at $550-$600

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u/ILkeSportzNIDCWhKnws 1d ago

That's not how tariffs work. Idk why no one here understands that.