{"id":25753,"date":"2025-04-10T17:47:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T17:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25753"},"modified":"2025-04-10T18:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T18:23:18","slug":"nintendo-switch-game-console-release-is-whipsawed-by-tariff-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25753","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch Game Console Release Is Whipsawed by Tariff Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The company moved most of its manufacturing to Vietnam from China to avoid tariffs. But the unpredictability of President Trump\u2019s plans have thrown Nintendo for a loop.<\/p>\n

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For months, Nintendo, the maker of famed video game series like Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong, had expected the morning of April 2 to be a celebration.<\/p>\n

To much fanfare, the company announced the price and release date for the Switch 2<\/a>, its new video game console eight years in the making. At an event in New York City, Doug Bowser, Nintendo of America\u2019s president, took the stage as fans cheered the arrival of new games to accompany the console; Mario Kart, Donkey Kong and Kirby among them.<\/p>\n

Then, later that same day, President Trump announced tariffs that sent global stock markets reeling<\/a> and put the Mario party in jeopardy. The new Switch was made in Vietnam, one of the countries on the tariff list.<\/p>\n

Two days later, Nintendo said it was delaying pre-orders for the Switch 2<\/a> and possibly raising the price from $450. Just how high was unclear. But on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said he was delaying expanded tariffs on Vietnam and many other countries for 90 days. Nintendo has yet to say how the delay will affect the Switch 2\u2019s price.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nintendo\u2019s whipsaw experience shows the broader chaos Mr. Trump\u2019s on-and-off tariffs have caused for technology manufacturers, and the uncertainty of what the market will look like for consumer technology in the coming months.<\/p>\n

In a statement before Mr. Trump delayed his expanded tariffs on countries other than China, Nintendo said it still planned to release the Switch 2 in June, but it did not set a date for when it would reopen pre-orders or announce a new price.<\/p>\n

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The company moved most of its manufacturing to Vietnam from China to avoid tariffs. But the unpredictability of President Trump\u2019s plans have thrown Nintendo for a loop.For months, Nintendo, the maker of famed video game series like Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong, had expected the morning of April 2 to be a celebration.To much fanfare, the company announced the price and release date for the Switch 2, its new video game console eight years in the making. At an event in New York City, Doug Bowser, Nintendo of America\u2019s president, took the stage as fans cheered the arrival of new games to accompany the console; Mario Kart, Donkey Kong and Kirby among them.Then, later that same day, President Trump announced tariffs that sent global stock markets reeling and put the Mario party in jeopardy. The new Switch was made in Vietnam, one of the countries on the tariff list.Two days later, Nintendo said it was delaying pre-orders for the Switch 2 and possibly raising the price from $450. Just how high was unclear. But on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said he was delaying expanded tariffs on Vietnam and many other countries for 90 days. Nintendo has yet to say how the delay will affect the Switch 2\u2019s price.Nintendo\u2019s whipsaw experience shows the broader chaos Mr. Trump\u2019s on-and-off tariffs have caused for technology manufacturers, and the uncertainty of what the market will look like for consumer technology in the coming months.In a statement before Mr. Trump delayed his expanded tariffs on countries other than China, Nintendo said it still planned to release the Switch 2 in June, but it did not set a date for when it would reopen pre-orders or announce a new price.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25755,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25756,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25753\/revisions\/25756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}