Over the past few months, gamers have been anxiously awaiting an important new release,

the Nintendo Switch 2.

For months, there's been leaks from different suppliers.

Case manufacturers saying, oh, it's coming, it's coming.

And, you know, there's sort of this fever pitch of people getting excited for the release.

That's Jason Kebler, a co-founder of 4-4 Media who wrote about the Switch 2.

Last Wednesday, the very same day that President Trump announced his slew of tariffs,

Nintendo made it official.

And on Liberation Day, last week, Nintendo officially announced the device in the morning

and said it was going to cost $449, and that pre-orders for the Switch to were going to start

on April 9th.

Gamers were psyched, but they didn't love the price tech.

And so there was this huge mix of excitement that this thing was finally real and that it's coming soon.

And at the same time, I think people were a little upset about the price because the original switch, I believe, was $299, and the announced price for this was $449.

And so people were saying, oh, well, this is already more expensive than we were expecting.

And they let the company know.

Nintendo did like a live stream a few hours after the initial announcement and all of the live chat comments were like, lower the price, lower the price, it's too expensive.

Even if you're not a gamer, it's worth paying attention to the story of the Switch 2 because it's a fascinating case study and how tariff policy changes what we buy and how it's made.

Nintendo, which is a Japanese company, manufactured most of the Switch 1s in China. And there was

reporting ahead of the announcement that a lot of the manufacturing had been moved to Vietnam and Cambodia,

in part because Nintendo anticipated big tariffs on China.

And then, you know, hours after it was announced, these massive tariffs were announced on Vietnam and Cambodia.

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