• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Good. Every corpo that didn’t openly position against the cunt during the campaign is partly guilty of these tariffs. Enjoy them.

    The find out phase is always rough, isn’t it?

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    And seeing as how the US is a massive market for the video game industry I’m sure they are livid internally.

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      5 days ago

      On the bright side, maybe there won’t be any Switch 2 shortages in Europe at launch?

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        That’d be cool. I’m sure it’s wishful thinking but maybe their surplus stock could mean that the price goes down a bit quicker? Probably copium but one can dream…

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    There was some indications that the hardware was done for a while–Nvidia said the SoC was set years ago–but there was issues with the yen/usd exchange rate that were unfavorable to Nintendo. The board seems to have run through a bad case of analysis paralysis to find the “best” time to launch.

    They finally break themselves of that, and then a manchild with ultimate power kicks over the entire world economic system.