While PCs and smartphones will be exempt from Trump retaliation rates in the United States, consoles will not.
That is according to former Gamesindustry. The Biz chief, Chris Dring, who confirmed in his newsletter, the game business, which not only the next Nintendo Switch 2 console from Nintendo 2 could not only be affected by the rates, but also PlayStation and Xbox hardware.
At the time of writing, it is not clear if exemptions for other technological components such as SSD and PCs were not intentionally applied to consoles or if it is simply supervision. On the positive side, it seems that Nintendo Switch cartridges will be fought from the additional tax of 125%.
Nintendo had already directed the vast majority of his manufacturing output of Switch 2 from Vietnam to the United States during the first two months of this year, since the threat of Trump’s now confirmed rates appeared, but the spicy tariffs are applied to Vietnam, a key manufacturer for Nintendo and China continues to cause considerable uncertainty.
This can also have the domain effect of catching Asian players against US games studies.
“It is not unreasonable to think that even if you reach ‘an agreement’ for tariffs and other problems between the United States and China, Chinese consumers would protest economic uncertainty by avoiding the products of the United States and even avoiding the technology and games of the United States,” said Lisa Hanson, CEO of Niko Partners.
“In fact, Chinese social networks already have a consumer speech on a reprimand directed by the consumer against US products.
Earlier this month, the US commercial group. The Entertainment Software Association said that Trump administration tariffs “will have a real and harmful impact on the video game industry in general. David Cole, founder of the Marketing and Research firm of the game Industry, DFC Intelligence, told Eurogamer that his firm expected Nintendo to stay with its launch price of $ 450 for Switch 2, despite the temporary pause of advance orders in the United States and Canada. Now the anticipated order invitations for American players will come out “from May 8”.
For more information about the next console, everything is announced here in the Switch 2 Direct, including prices, games and more.
