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NEWS: Nintendo Switch 2 Pre-orders Open on April 24 Following Delay from Tariffs' Impact

I wonder if this will earn them any good will with consumers/fans. Probably not since people were whining about the price before the whole deal with them canceling preorders, but maybe?.

I was going to wait a few months until the holidays since I'm not in a great financial position to buy a new console but I feel so confident Trump's gonna do something stupid by then that'll end up raising the price that I think it might be better in the long run to bite the bullet and buy one at (or near) launch.

I hope my current PowerA controller works with it, just lacking the "C" button for the chat I won't be using, as those Joycon2 pair and Pro Controller prices are obscene...and IIRC the camera (which I also was not planning to buy) was $29.99, so that item nearly doubled

That could be a good idea. Haven't PS5's also gotten more expensive since launch?

FanGamer24 wrote:

Switch 2 accessories are seeing their prices increase by about $5 USD.

So you're telling me everyone hufflepuffing in these threads over the last couple week was over a 50 dollar Discord camera costing 5 dollars more? That's hilarious. That's why people need to chill out and just wait rather than fearmonger and act like the sky is falling.

vorkedlarfleeze wrote:

FanGamer24 wrote: Switch 2 accessories are seeing their prices increase by about $5 USD. So you're telling me everyone hufflepuffing in these threads over the last couple week was over a 50 dollar Discord camera costing 5 dollars more? That's hilarious. That's why people need to chill out and just wait rather than fearmonger and act like the sky is falling.

The reason it's only $5 accessory increases instead of much more is exactly because everyone was huffing and puffing over how crazy all these tariffs were. Because of that, the policy was put on pause, at least temporarily because it was also crashing the market. People weren't fearmongering. We saw the policies destroying the economy in real time.

And as Nintendo themselves have said, they now have to keep their options open to potentially raise the price in the future if these policies go back in place. So basically the reason the tariff policies haven't done more damage is precisely because people huffed and puffed about them.

Guitarophone wrote:

vorkedlarfleeze wrote: FanGamer24 wrote: Switch 2 accessories are seeing their prices increase by about $5 USD. So you're telling me everyone hufflepuffing in these threads over the last couple week was over a 50 dollar Discord camera costing 5 dollars more? That's hilarious. That's why people need to chill out and just wait rather than fearmonger and act like the sky is falling. The reason it's only $5 accessory increases instead of much more is exactly because everyone was huffing and puffing over how crazy all these tariffs were. Because of that, the policy was put on pause, at least temporarily because it was also crashing the market. People weren't fearmongering. We saw the policies destroying the economy in real time. And as Nintendo themselves have said, they now have to keep their options open to potentially raise the price in the future if these policies go back in place. So basically the reason the tariff policies haven't done more damage is precisely because people huffed and puffed about them.

Especially because plenty of industries are experiencing massive layoffs, orders are being held up or stopped for some products altogether, and if they up tariffs to massive amounts in countries where the switch 2 is manufactured for the US it will definitely not remain at thise prices.

$95 for controllers is high way robbery.

$95 for controllers is high way robbery.

I mean, these prices aren't that much different from the NS1 accessories -- joycons were already $90, and the old pro controllers were, what, $80?