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Nintendo Switch 2 US price won’t increase after tariffs, but accessories will cost more

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Tune in on Monday to find out new tarriffs make this announcement no longer valid
- Monday? I'll see you in two hours! xD
  
  No worries the tariffs will get another 90 day pause after the stock market crashes again
With taxes the controller is now over 100$. Hope your kids dont break it...
- Or stick drift, because - hall effect? That's too expensive (as in, less controllers would be sold)
- I'm not from us but I'm holding off buying since the first tease. That little thingy that pop out from the switch and goes onside the controller looks worrisomely flimsy. It breaks and is no more docked mode anymore. Hell probably no more charging.
  
  I'm not sure what you're talking about. Are you talking about the Joycons? The ones from the switch 1 are less flimsy than they look
  Also, these are not required for docked mode (if you have another controller, of course. You need a way of controlling the console), not required for charging and you can buy new ones if you lose or break the ones that come with the console.
- Currently working through advanced wars 1+2 on my steam deck 😅
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s due to the ‘don’t call them exemptions’ covering the console but not separate controllers.
From another article:
Reporting from Bloomberg indicated that Nintendo had apparently anticipated an amount of tariff-related chaos. In February, Nintendo had been building "a stockpile of millions of consoles" from Vietnam, where two-thirds of assembled consoles are now being earmarked for shipments to the US. Any Nintendo consoles assembled in China, meanwhile, would face an import tariff that—at time of writing—has risen to 245%.
Seems like they're using the tried and true method to avoid the tariffs but I do wonder how long this will actually last then.
- wait... is it 145% or 245% ?
  
  Give it another week and it will be 345%...
  
  I had heard previously the tariff would be 145% so I guess this is referring to a total price of 245%.
That means they are asking so much that it wouldn't even hurt them that much.
Sneaky

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