On Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:13:08 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Having proven that everybody loves the Switch 2, Nintendo
is happy to up its prices.** Well, the Switch 2 for now
will remain at the same price, but various games and
accessories are seeing a 10-15% price hike in the US due
to 'market conditions' (read: the USAian administration being
run by dumb-asses), with the possibility of that more "price
adjustments may be necessary in the future." It should be
noted that this isn't because Nintendo is struggling; in the
previously linked financial report, it said its quarterly
revenue had been more than doubled.

But as we've seen, as goes Nintendo, so often goes the rest
of the industry. Expect other OEMs and publishers to use this
as an excuse to raise prices to USAians as well. Even the
ones who don't actually have to pay tariffs ;-)

It mentions that physical and digital games won't see a price hike at the
end of the announcement. I'm not sure if that's Switch 2 only, but it
would make sense if it was all games.

Unless our resident economic geniuses figure out how to tariff Internet delivery, I don't see how they can impound anything digital pending a
payment. So... fingers crossed there.

Digital goods should be just fine, and you can still get a Switch 2 at
the intial price because Nintendo saw this coming (then put a lot of
product on shore as quick as they could). Eventually it will be affected, however. Of course, that probably just means a price break that doesn't
look like one, and leaves the product at the same price.

I love paying additional taxes on my goods! I'll have to write my
senators and tell them how pleased I am.

As far as poor sales for new Switch 2 games, there aren't any. They are
selling 4k/HDR upgrades of BoTW and other games as release titles. The
only thing that dropped on launch was a dubious Mario Kart title that,
from what I've heard, tried to turn the racing game into an open world adventure game.

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