Nintendo says tariffs aren’t the reason the Switch 2 costs $449.99

But Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser says that tariffs did not directly impact the console’s original price tag. “Put [the April 2nd announcement] aside. Any previous tariffs were not factored into the price itself,“ he explained, speaking to me the day after the event. That may be true, but the impact of the April 2nd tariff announcement is already being felt. Just two days after its event, Nintendo announced that it was delaying Switch 2 preorders, which were originally slated to begin on April 9th, in order to “assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions.” There’s currently no new preorder date, and whether the price of the console will be changed is unclear. “The news is fresh, and like many companies right now, we are actively assessing what the impact may be,” Bowser says. So why is the Switch 2 so expensive? When I asked Bowser, he rattled off a list of the new console’s features: the bigger LCD screen, the more powerful internals, the Joy-Co ... Read full article.