By their own logic, they don't have a right to tariff refunds either.

By the same logic, Nintendo isn't entitled to a refund because they got what they paid for.

My mother bought me an NES when I was a child, and shortly after Nintendo lowered the price and they voluntarily refunded her the difference.

She told me years later that secured her as a Nintendo customer for my games for life.

This greed is disgusting, but more than anything it's depressing.

Nintendo aren't a good company but they no doubt lost sales due to the higher tariffs and I don't really blame them.

My opinion the tariffs are the US's own fault they shouldn't have voted in a moron.

Ferengi rules of acquisition.

1. Once you have their money, you never give it back.

This has been the true face of Nintendo all along...

IMO I think it's weird to focus specifically on Nintendo. The American government basically screwed over its populace and a ton of foreign companies (less sympathy for the former though). I don't think it's realistic to expect these companies to reimburse companies, because logistically it'd be a nightmare. The only way I can imagine consumers getting their money back is if the government used the tarrif money to pay a portion of the federal income tax for its citizens, ideally the lower tax vracket. Unfortunately that won't happen.

Ok well I am never buying another Nintendo product again. Fuck them.

I never played more Nintendo games in a year and I didn‘t pay for a single one!

I play my Steam Deck more than I play my Switch 2.

Nintendo told the court that “the doctrine of unjust enrichment does not apply when a party voluntarily pays a purchase price and receives a product in return.” Nintendo said plaintiffs “received exactly what they paid for: Nintendo products that Plaintiffs knowingly and voluntarily purchased at the advertised price. Nor is there anything ‘unjust’ about Nintendo retaining money that it may receive from the government as tariff refunds. The fact that Nintendo stands to receive tariff refunds does not give Plaintiffs any legal entitlement to those funds.”

I'm a lifelong Nintendo fan but this is robber baron speak. You don't blame the victim of price manipulation by telling them they deserve to pay unjust prices because they have no other choice than to pay unjust prices or go without. This is the type of shit medieval feudal lords would pull when oppressing peasants. This type of behavior doesn't belong in the 21st century.

Nintendo being anti-consumer is no surprise, but it's nice to see someone tried to hold them to account.

So glad I personally didn't buy a Switch 2.

Now that Nintendo greed is fully out in the open I hope a lot of their fans leave. The relationship should be symbiotic, not parasitic.

They've ALWAYS sucked but had a very friendly face. Remember how they tried to ban renting in North America? They failed to do so for games, but they got their filthy clutches on the manuals so game shops weren't allowed to rent those out. They didn't need to do that but they did just to make the experience a little bit worse for us consumers.

Having said that... The US kinda fucked up themselves, so I'm not sure why Nintendo is being singled out.

Imagine the court to dismiss the lawsuit, and then use their decision as evidence for refusing USA to pay tariff refunds to Nintendo.

I don't like Nintendo, and even here they totally failed their communication because there was 100 ways to put this more user-friendly, but they are right in not issuing refunds. Things can go on sale, you don't go and ask for refund because you bought it a few months before at full price and sue companies for not telling you in advance there will be sale, when and for how much discount.

Nintendo has become an awful company.

Stop supporting them.

Time to tell the crackheads that Nintendo HQ is made entirely of copper and catalytic converters.

Nintendo: Just don't buy anything from these assholes anymore.