Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.

They want to eat their cake, and have it to. Will capitalism benefit the capitalists like it does 99.99% of the time? You bet your sweet ass it will!

99.99% of the time, it works every time!

I mean, not quite the same logic. The tariffs that Nintendo paid were deemed illegal. The price consumers paid was not deemed to be illegal. At least, not yet, as the case is ongoing.

I hate comments like this. Nintendo paid an illegal tax, so they deserve a refund. Consumers got screwed by their government, not Nintendo.

Also, if you think the tariffs, AI, threat of more tariffs, Iran war, etc. haven't increases the cost of operations for businesses then you're not paying attention to current events.

i think you mean the store she bought it from refunded you the difference.

many retail outlets have 30 day price guarantees, sometimes 90.

Nobody was buying NES systems direct from Nintendo.

Sorry your mom's greedy Nintendo probably

They also don't know what the current US adminstration will do next. As soon as the tarrifs were struck down Trump implemented new ones. And the thing is that he wasn't even given as much as a stern talking to for implementing these illegal world affecting tarrifs. In other nations these would have been career ending.

My opinion the tariffs are the US's own fault they shouldn't have voted in a moron.

Actually, the election was rigged in favor of Trump. He stole it. You just don’t hear about it because all he does is cover up shit and gut regulatory bodies while screaming about the left doing it first.

Nintendo had long since realized that their customers are kids who see Pokemon and Mario and scream at their parents until they buy it for them. They can charge whatever they want and those kids will still bug their parents until they get it.

Everyone else that buys their products is just a bonus if they still keep buying even after the prices get jacked up. Nintendo made their decision about who to prioritize, and the only boycott that would work to turn things around would have to be orchestrated by all the parents of all the 6 year olds in the world, and I doubt that'll happen.

By Nintendo’s logic they have no right to your money.

lemmy seems to have a hard on for painting Nintendo particularly as this awful terrible corporation. Most likely because they are bitter they won't lower their game prices. And they turn it into this weird moral issue and compare them to Steam as if Steam is the 'good guy' and Nintendo is the 'bad guy'. it's basically virtue signalling over consumer choice or something, instead of political issues. because only bad stupid people would ever own a switch or something.

I mean, cool. I don't buy a lot of shit from a lot of companies because I also don't find their pricing and business model appealing. But it's not a moral issue in any way. There are far worse examples of course, too. Jeep makes objectively shitty cars for decades, but people keep buying them, and complaining about how they are shitty, for the lifestyle image/cool club they think owning a Jeep puts them in.

But you're 100% right and basically no company is giving customers refunds over any of this because it's already enough of a clusterfuck as it is to get their own refunds. But hey, let's not let complex and costly reality get in the way of idealistic consumer entitlement over like $20 bucks, which even if they could give people the refunds, it probably would among to very little money. Even more hilarious is that folks who never bought the product still seem to think they should get a refund from Nintendo because they had a Gamecube 20 years ago.

Likewise. The Switch 2 is a very nice handheld, but it doesn’t hold a candle to having a never-locked-down x86 PC in your hands.

the only console outside of my Steam Deck that i still occasionally use is my old Nintendo DS, because of it's small form factor and my seemingly undying M3 card lol

I doubt the majority of nintendo customers will be aware of this

I doubt the majority of the nintendo customers are going to care to be honest. The only people that really got screwed were people decided to jump on board and buy the switch 2 after they raised the prices by 40$ in response to the tariffs.

Not saying that I think those customers who did spend more on it shouldn't get a refund but, I do think that the majority of nintendo fans are either unaffected, or the amount wouldn't be worth chasing. I highly doubt this instance will be the deciding factor on many fans for a "yea fuck Nintendo I'm out" reaction. There are far worse things that Nintendo has done that I think would have caused it prior.

You have a symbiotic relationship with a capitalist‽

Nintendo is being singled out because they're withholding the tariff refunds for tariffs they never paid and passed on to the customers. When the tariffs were imposed, no one really blamed Nintendo and knew it was the Administration's fault. If Nintendo didn't want sales to drop because of higher prices, they could have eaten the additional tariff cost until it all got sorted out. Had they done this, then they'd be entitled to that tariff refund money. Instead they passed on the tariff cost to customers, which sucks for customers but was really the only sensible thing Nintendo could have done given the circumstances, and most people aren't really blaming Nintendo on that decision. But now Nintendo is trying to have it both ways, not pay any of the tariffs and keep all of the tariff refunds which is why they're being singled out. It's pure greed on their part with blatant disrespect to their customers.

because folks are bitter about they still charge $60 for a 10 year old game.

I'm not. I bought a switch 2 last month and Zelda BoTW for $70. It's great. But what do I know, I'm a morally bankrupt bootlicker or something, because I was happy to spend my money on something that I am enjoying.

Second hand market doesn't financially support them. You can have your cake and eat it too.

If only it were so. Unfortunately prices were jacked up worldwide to compensate. If only the Americans were paying the tarrif it would have been an extra $50-100 for the console in the U.S. easy.

americans voted for this. they wanted to be fleeced.

everyone told them tariffs were stupid, and they told those people to f off, they know better and Trump is a Really Smart Guy Who Knows What He Is Doing.

But they did profit from the tariffs, as Nintendo gets the refunds but do not pass it on to the customers?