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[–] 107 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Wondering how this is going to play out. A Switch for $600+ is borderline insane.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Out of all the people it’s gamers that will put trump out of office.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [+] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    My understanding is this has been the price of thousands of gaming communities enacting a “No politics” rule - people want to keep it external.

    “This fucking piece of actual trash! He’s using the most broken character this game has ever put out, and trash talking over it like he’s ever fucked a woman. Literally eat a dick. What do you think, chat?…Oh. Holy shit. Sorry, I just saw some stuff about Trump, listen, I’m sorry, but we don’t talk politics here. It can get really toxic.”

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    [–] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sony: we‘ll make it a little more expensive for everyone else, so no one feels left out <3

    Nintendo: t(°-°t)

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What you meant to say was
    Sony: we'll let the whole world pay for the fascist bullshit the US is pulling <3

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    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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    [–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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!"

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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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.”

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Only 4.125% of the world population is affected. No biggy.

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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If Nintendo sues the Trump admin I'd have to finally side with Nintendo on a lawsuit.

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago*
    1. Trump threatens Nintendo with tariffs
    2. Nintendo doesn't seem to GAF
    3. Trump says he'll talk with Nintendo if they call
    4. Nintendo doesn't call
    5. Trump cancels tariff, invites Nintendo CEO to lunch
    6. MAGA applauds Trump for saving America from something or other
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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I wasn't going to buy it anyway with those prices

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Atleast this will radicalize the youth.

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  • [+] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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