On Friday, Nintendo introduced that gamers received’t have the ability to pre-order a Swap 2 on April 9. The corporate straight blamed President Donald Trump’s deliberate tariffs towards mainly each nation on the planet (besides Russia and North Korea, weirdly) for the delay. This has led to some folks and analysts on-line to foretell a value enhance on the $450 console.
This was defined in an announcement from Nintendo, first obtained by GameSpot:
Pre-orders for Nintendo Swap 2 within the U.S. is not going to begin April 9, 2025 with the intention to assess the potential influence of tariffs and evolving market situations. Nintendo will replace timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged.
To be clear: The Swap 2 is presently nonetheless priced at $450 and continues to be set to launch in June. None of that has modified. For now. Nevertheless, with this information and the continuing backlash from gamers over recreation costs, I’d say lots of the Swap 2’s rollout and pricing is up within the air. Maybe Trump does what he has performed up to now and on the final minute delays some or the entire big tariffs. Possibly they get doubled in some locations out of spite. Possibly he declares video video games unlawful with an government order. People, something is feasible proper now.
It’s very uncommon {that a} main online game firm like Nintendo would backpedal this rapidly after saying a date for pre-orders. Even weirder for Nintendo of all firms to straight tie its determination to President Trump by calling out his deliberate tariffs. However we live in wild and unprecedented instances, one thing I’m remined of each single time I test social media or the information. As you would possibly anticipate throughout such a weird second, lots of people on-line reacted to the Swap 2 information.
Listed below are a few of the extra entertaining reactions, to distract you for just some minutes from…every part.
