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/imjustbettr 1d ago

Personally, I do not think the tariffs will stick. The other tariffs he's done haven't stuck and have proven to just be ass backwards negotiation tactics for things that simply don't matter at all. But I think Nintendo is very wise to delay pre orders. Trump is completely unpredictable at this point.

I just want to point out WHY Trump went so hard on Vietnam and other SE Asian countries this time and it becasue he put tariffs on China in his last term so a lot of companies (including Nintendo) moved production to SE Asia. This is Trump going after companies/countries trying to bypass the previous tariffs.

I think that there will be some weird concessions from Vietnam like cracking down on some illegal activity that tangentially affects Americans, like the drug trade or something minor like that, but this is the most idiotic way he could be doing anything like that.

There's no way you believe that at all right?

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u/LeagueOfBlasians 1d ago

Once you realize how they calculated the tariffs, you’d see how stupid these tariffs are.

In short, the tariffs are based on the trade deficit percentage of nations and not real tariffs placed on the US by these nations. For example, the US imports 91% more from Vietnam than we export to them, thus the 46% tariff.

Trump applied this logic of tariffs to every nation, regardless of their relations to the US.

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u/imjustbettr 1d ago

Oh no, I understand exactly how dumb this shit is. I feel like I'm going to get a brain aneurysm every time I've thought about it the last two days.

It's so fucking stupid.

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u/extralyfe 1d ago

I just want to point out WHY Trump went so hard on Vietnam and other SE Asian countries this time

you said this and then agreed with someone who told you how the tariffs were set up, so, not sure which one you think is correct.

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u/imjustbettr 1d ago

I don't think you understand the difference between WHY he's going so hard on SE Asian countries and HOW he calculated the deficit percentage. Both are true.

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u/The_Order_Eternials 1d ago

Given the how, the why is nonexistent.

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u/Tycoon004 1d ago

It's a stupid reason to target SE Asian countries. Also, if you think its expensive with the tariffs, you don't want to know what it would cost to be 100% made in the US completely. An example for something like an iPhone would be it going from say 1000$ made in China to $3500-4k if made entirely in the US. That's discounting the profit margin they'd have to slap ontop.