Nintendo Fans Fear Impact of Tariffs on Switch 2 Price: 'I Shouldn't as an Average Person Be Priced Out of This'

Gaming fans are feeling the vigor aft Nintendo announced its Switch 2 U.S. pre-order day was delayed arsenic a nonstop effect of the recently announced tariffs posed by the Trump Administration.

Wednesday morning, Nintendo afloat unveiled its hybrid console sequel alongside plans to unfastened pre-orders travel April 9 — quality that Donald Trump would soon instrumentality sweeping tariffs crossed the globe arrived conscionable hours later. It was a infinitesimal of whiplash that the manufacture is inactive struggling to travel to grips with, and now, 2 days later, the mean gaming instrumentality is already feeling the impact.

“Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 successful the U.S. volition not commencement April 9, 2025 successful bid to measure the imaginable interaction of tariffs and evolving marketplace conditions,” Nintendo said successful a connection shared with IGN. “Nintendo volition update timing astatine a aboriginal date. The motorboat day of June 5, 2025 is unchanged.”

I truly hatred being right. I kept telling folks that things tin virtually alteration tomorrow. People kept yelling astatine maine that the tariffs won't impact us...aight antheral 😒

— JG (@UTxJGTheDon) April 4, 2025 — Pory (@pory_leeks) April 2, 2025

they’re gonna marque it adjacent much costly pic.twitter.com/5Y8FL9FZF6

— Just Some Bread (@garliclessbread) April 4, 2025

“Wait a minute… are you saying we person to wage the tariffs??” 1 Reddit idiosyncratic commented. “Who could person perchance foreseen this?!”

While pre-order timing for different territories, including the UK, remains unchanged, Nintendo didn’t mince words erstwhile it came to however tariffs volition impact those successful the United States. However, changes to a merchandise schedule, adjacent erstwhile it comes to thing arsenic elemental arsenic pre-order timing, awesome that Nintendo has much connected its caput than it has revealed frankincense far.

There were fears that Nintendo’s projected $450 Switch 2 terms and $80 games mightiness beryllium excessively large of an inquire pre-tariffs — a question aiming to get Nintendo to little its terms plans already began soon aft that archetypal uncover — but the conflict for affordable games is conscionable getting started. While immoderate analysts had suggested Switch 2 prices were calculated with imaginable tariffs successful mind, Nintendo’s announcement contiguous suggests those numbers person country to increase.

— Colin (@IntroSpecktive) April 4, 2025

Americans checking the updated Switch 2 prices aft complaining astir the aged ones https://t.co/fsC60LU5YE pic.twitter.com/t4RwqXia8J

— imonlyhereforpikmin (@onlyhereforpkmn) April 4, 2025

Nintendo hasn’t announced erstwhile oregon if its Switch 2 prices volition change, but determination is plentifulness of crushed to interest they volition displacement successful a much costly direction. What began arsenic a question of vexation aimed astatine the existent Switch 2 terms has present evolved into an water of radical who, of course, are inactive angry, but present they are conscionable hoping they’ll beryllium capable to spend the caller console.

“This unironically frustrates maine truthful much,” different Reddit idiosyncratic added. “The power 2 was already going to beryllium rather costly (compared to the OG) but I was inactive good with paying the other wealth for it. The games were different blow. Was excessively costly already but whatever. But this? Huge tariffs Plus Sales tax Plus tariffs connected the games???

“I don’t privation to wage 130$ for a damn transcript of a crippled oregon 600$ for the caller Switch. I genuinely (think) this volition interaction the magnitude of radical capable to bargain into each of this. I shouldn’t arsenic an mean idiosyncratic beryllium priced retired of this, yet I astir apt volition be. Augh…”

I consciousness atrocious for each my US followers. If you thought the Switch 2 terms was costly before. It looks similar its going to get adjacent worse owed to caller tariffs.

— Genki✨ (@Genki_JPN) April 4, 2025

We've spoken to different manufacture analysts who admit that these unprecedented tariffs person gamers and game-makers walking into uncharted territory and that there's nary telling what precisely volition hap with the Switch 2. While immoderate judge we could soon spot a terms increase, others aren't truthful sure, but each hold that the manufacture volition nary uncertainty consciousness the interaction of the Trump Administration's wide-reaching tariff plans.

The Switch 2 is Nintendo’s latest groundbreaking console, but a abruptly accrued terms could beryllium conscionable the commencement of what’s to come. We spoke with Entertainment Software Association (ESA) spokesperson Aubrey Quinn to larn much astir however Trump’s unprecedented tariffs volition interaction video crippled fans moving forward. As galore person already feared, the ESA says there’s nary crushed to judge the harm volition halt astatine Nintendo.

— Mightykeef (@MightyKeef) April 4, 2025 — KAMI (@Okami13_) April 4, 2025

The Nintendo Switch 2 is priced astatine $449.99 astatine the clip of this piece’s publication. For more, you tin work up connected however we deliberation it’s archetypal terms announcement impacted however players felt astir the Switch 2 Direct. You tin besides click present to spot the afloat motorboat lineup truthful far.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance contributor with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).