Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser mentioned that the corporate didn’t think about potential tariffs from the U.S. when deciding on the pricing for its Nintendo Switch 2 console, in keeping with Wired.
Nintendo unveiled its extremely anticipated Switch 2 final week and introduced that the console can be launched on June 5, priced at $450. But later that day, President Donald Trump introduced that the U.S. would impose sweeping tariffs on items imported into the nation, sending the worldwide economic system into disarray.
U.S. preorders for the Switch 2 have been supposed to start on April 9, however U.S. shoppers gained’t be capable to preorder the console till Nintendo figures out deal with the tariffs. Many of the Switch 2’s elements are assembled and manufactured in China, Vietnam, and Cambodia; beneath Trump’s new plan, China is topic to 54% tariffs, whereas Cambodia and Vietnam are topic to 49% and 46% tariffs, respectively.
According to Bowser, Nintendo had already begun attempting to diversify the place it makes merchandise, transferring most manufacturing from China to different nations.
