{"id":983,"date":"2025-04-07T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:49:45","slug":"nintendo-of-america-president-says-tariffs-not-factored-into-switch-2-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/nintendo-of-america-president-says-tariffs-not-factored-into-switch-2-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Of America President Says Tariffs &#8220;Not Factored&#8221; Into Switch 2 Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>But new tariffs is &#8220;something we&#8217;re going to have to address.&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nintendo Switch 2 is a little pricier than many were expecting. The console will cost <strong>USD $449.99 \/ GBP \u00a3395.99<\/strong> for the console itself, or <strong>USD<\/strong> <strong>$499.99 \/ GBP \u00a3429.99<\/strong> bundled with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mario-kart-world\">Mario Kart World<\/a>. For many, that&#8217;s a lot, and when initially revealed last week, it brought to mind the slew tariffs introduced by the current Trump Administration.<\/p>\n<p>But President of Nintendo of America Doug Bowser has told <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/nintendo\/643277\/nintendo-switch-2-price-tariffs-doug-bowser-interview\">The Verge<\/a> and <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/nintendo-is-actively-assessing-what-trade-war-means-for-switch-2\/\">Wired<\/a> that these previous tariffs \u2014 that is, prior to the the Trump Administration&#8217;s <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0qnd2x1nn3o\">new international tariffs<\/a> on goods from across the world was announced on the 2nd April 2025 \u2014 &#8220;were not factored into the price itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/nintendo-of-america-president-says-tariffs-not-factored-into-switch-2-price\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But new tariffs is &#8220;something we&#8217;re going to have to address.&#8221;. The Nintendo Switch 2 is a little pricier than many were expecting. The console will cost USD $449.99 \/ GBP \u00a3395.99 for the console itself, or USD $499.99 \/ GBP \u00a3429.99 bundled with Mario Kart World. For many, that&#8217;s a lot, and when initially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}