That's fine. Nintendo was already planning to impose the Nintendo tax. So I imposed the "I ain't buyin' this shit tax".
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Wondering how this is going to play out. A Switch for $600+ is borderline insane.
Hopefully gamers get together and protest Trump out of office for artificially bumping up the costs of goods.
Tarrifs = Tax
A tax that working people pay, in the country that set the tarriff.
Out of all the people it’s gamers that will put trump out of office.
Probably gamers put him in office in the first place. Steve Bannon capitalized on Gamergate and started latching on to it to recruit young white male gamers to the far right. Then these GamerGate proponents became manosphere followers.
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I love your optimism, I wish I could share it.
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145% of 450 is 652, you add those together and it’s essentially 1100$. And that’s before tax at the register in the US.
Its insane that a tax is also charged on top of the already applied tariff.
Don't forget to tip the self checkout.
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Lol. That 600+ is JUST the extra tax. That's on top of the base price
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Thanks Trump for adding a 145% "tax" on my electronics. How am I supposed to afford anything now!?
Guess I may as well just go protest instead.
Thanks half the voting country too. You got neighbors who asked for this.
I wasn't going to get one even if it was £20, but how? Trump set the tariffs. Obviously it's going to cost a shitload more if there is a 145% tariff in the US.
Sony: we‘ll make it a little more expensive for everyone else, so no one feels left out <3
Nintendo: t(°-°t)
What you meant to say was
Sony: we'll let the whole world pay for the fascist bullshit the US is pulling <3
Let me fix that for you:
Sony: we'll let the whole world pay astronomical amounts of money because it makes us rich! And if someone calls us on it, we'll say it's all because of the US!
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Nintendo: "We also had to raise the price of digital games to $200."
"But tariffs don't apply to digital games."
Nintendo: "Ah, yeah. Well, whenever you notice something like that, tariffs did it."
"But why does the rest of the world have to pay the price, too?"
Nintendo: "TARIFFS!"
You‘re joking about it. I can hear the faint beeping of some LLM waiting to serve this to someone in power.
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- for the US
its nintendo, im sure they’re going to find some way to raise the price for everyone else too
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In future history books: “…But the biggest exodus from the United States was after it was announced the Switch 2 would cost $1000 exclusively there.”
The price was going to be $499. A 145% tariff makes the price $1222.55. A 100% tariff would double the price and this is more than 100%.
Looks like pretty steep inflation fueled by tariffs. I wonder how the Denies Reality Party (DeRPs) will spin it.
If Nintendo sues the Trump admin I'd have to finally side with Nintendo on a lawsuit.
i didn't think I'll ever see those sequence of words
- Trump threatens Nintendo with tariffs
- Nintendo doesn't seem to GAF
- Trump says he'll talk with Nintendo if they call
- Nintendo doesn't call
- Trump cancels tariff, invites Nintendo CEO to lunch
- MAGA applauds Trump for saving America from something or other
Atleast this will radicalize the youth.
On Americans only? Right? 😟
I would assume so, yea. They had stopped pre-orders in the US only when the tariffs were announced.
These tariffs shouldn't be 145% of the retail price, they should be 145% of the wholesale price.
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Truly proof that gamers are the most oppressed people, its so joever /s
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