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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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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours 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. :(

[-] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

In some cases 'they do' (they don't) as the tariffs imposed may well be enough to stop people buying X at 150-200% of normal price, if selling X to US was a big enough chunk of BizY's business, then that does impact the target country, not just US citizens.

In all cases US citizens hurt, but in a few the target country does too.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

That's basically the point of a tariff; to discourage people from buying foreign goods and to encourage production and sale of domestic goods instead.

The only times it doesn't work correctly is when too much of the general populace refuses to do the work necessary to create production, domestic regulations make production locally too prohibitively expensive, and/or when domestic product manufacturers raise their prices to match the new higher tariffed prices, effectively cancelling the intended benefits of a tariff.

The USA right now is kinda seeing the effects of all 3. It has been so reliant on imports for such a long time that trying to cut that off all at once is having a more pronounced effect than if its import reliance was curtailed more slowly and started a while ago. And since there is no regulation (AFAIK) saying that domestic good prices cannot raise to match imported good prices when tariffed, that doesn't help either. Businesses want the most money, and if all the other options for a product are $150 and their domestic one is only $50, without law saying they can't match those other prices businesses feel like they are leaving $100 on the table.

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