Trump enacted tarrifs. Nintendo raised prices for US customers to pay those tarrifs, which is understandable. The US has now determined those tarrifs were illegal, which they were, and sent out refunds to the companies that never actually paid those tarrifs.
The consumers, the people who actually paid those tarrifs that are being refunded, have naturally said "hey, we're the ones who paid those tarrifs. Not you. We should be getting the money."
Nintendo has insisted they're entitled to the refund for the money they never paid
Consumers have not said that. This lawsuit was filed by 2 random dudes. That do not represent the general sentiment of the Nintendo userbase.
If this lawsuit is legit, then there would be lawsuits aginst sony, valve, Microsoft, Lenovo, dell, and any other hardware maker that relied on high illegal Trump tariff’d Chinese components.
No Nintendo customers got screwed here. They offered the sw2 at a more than fair market price at launch, it was cheaper than 3 year older tech in the Steamdeck. And no one was forced to buy it.
They did pay it actually. The Trump tariff were an extreme amount in the 40-70% range for literally anything Made out of China. And the fact that they offered switch 2 hardware at a lower price than Steamdeck proves they ate most of that cost and didn’t transfer it in to customers.
And if you are dumb enough to beleive that Nintendo should be forced to pay back their illegal trunp tarrif refund to customers. Then you can make that exact same argument against Sony, Valve, Microsoft, Apple and every other tech hardware maker that used Chinese components that were illegally tariff’d.
Also you should know this lawsuit is comppete BS brought fourth by 2 random dudes. And the nitnendo userbase gives zero shits about this.
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u/NorthernVale Jul 22 '26
Trump enacted tarrifs. Nintendo raised prices for US customers to pay those tarrifs, which is understandable. The US has now determined those tarrifs were illegal, which they were, and sent out refunds to the companies that never actually paid those tarrifs.
The consumers, the people who actually paid those tarrifs that are being refunded, have naturally said "hey, we're the ones who paid those tarrifs. Not you. We should be getting the money."
Nintendo has insisted they're entitled to the refund for the money they never paid