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Blessing (Addy Oye Jr.)

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Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

At a certain point, you look at it and it's like, how much of this ride does Nintendo even know as far as what they're doing? Because Trump, as far as these terrorists, has been fairly unpredictable. And I think there is this, for Nintendo, the timing has been terrible. As far as... Alright, we have the Switch 2 Direct. It happened to land on the same day in which Trump enacted the tariffs.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

At a certain point, you look at it and it's like, how much of this ride does Nintendo even know as far as what they're doing? Because Trump, as far as these terrorists, has been fairly unpredictable. And I think there is this, for Nintendo, the timing has been terrible. As far as... Alright, we have the Switch 2 Direct. It happened to land on the same day in which Trump enacted the tariffs.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

Okay, cool. We have the pause, but the pause is for 90 days. Within those 90 days, the Switch 2 is releasing. So, Nintendo's in this weird place of... Alright, we have this thing that we want to release, that we want to do well, but we're kind of at the mercy of how this thing goes with the tariffs. And I think, I predicted that the price would stay the same as far as it coming out at launch.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

Okay, cool. We have the pause, but the pause is for 90 days. Within those 90 days, the Switch 2 is releasing. So, Nintendo's in this weird place of... Alright, we have this thing that we want to release, that we want to do well, but we're kind of at the mercy of how this thing goes with the tariffs. And I think, I predicted that the price would stay the same as far as it coming out at launch.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

But I think as soon as these tariffs go up, or if these tariffs come back and are reenacted, depending on what that looks like, I think these prices will go up. On the Nintendo website, Nintendo.com,

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

But I think as soon as these tariffs go up, or if these tariffs come back and are reenacted, depending on what that looks like, I think these prices will go up. On the Nintendo website, Nintendo.com,

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

One of the things they mentioned with the press release, talking about them maintaining the price, they have a sentence here, that is, other adjustments to the price of any Nintendo product are also possible in the future, depending on market conditions. So I think them launching at $450 is them trying to be like, alright,

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

One of the things they mentioned with the press release, talking about them maintaining the price, they have a sentence here, that is, other adjustments to the price of any Nintendo product are also possible in the future, depending on market conditions. So I think them launching at $450 is them trying to be like, alright,

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

Our dream scenario where maybe these get reversed or maybe these aren't as bad as they could be. We want to maintain that 450. As soon as those tariffs come in, that price is raising. And I think for them, you even maybe want to launch with a 450. That way, when the prices do raise, you can easily be like... Not our fault. Not us. That's the US government. Sorry.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

Our dream scenario where maybe these get reversed or maybe these aren't as bad as they could be. We want to maintain that 450. As soon as those tariffs come in, that price is raising. And I think for them, you even maybe want to launch with a 450. That way, when the prices do raise, you can easily be like... Not our fault. Not us. That's the US government. Sorry.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

What do you expect from us? Yeah. I totally agree with that. I think that is a... Preisaufgaben? Yeah, because I know that like... Game Pass.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

What do you expect from us? Yeah. I totally agree with that. I think that is a... Preisaufgaben? Yeah, because I know that like... Game Pass.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

Yeah, Game Pass would be the thing.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

Yeah, Game Pass would be the thing.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

Yeah, I guess so. I think I'm thinking more hardware, where you don't expect hardware prices to rise two or three years after the release. I know PlayStation did that in certain regions of the world. I don't exactly know.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

Yeah, I guess so. I think I'm thinking more hardware, where you don't expect hardware prices to rise two or three years after the release. I know PlayStation did that in certain regions of the world. I don't exactly know.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

I think that just happened in Japan last year.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

I think that just happened in Japan last year.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

It definitely happened like two years or a year and a half ago somewhere else. And I think that right now Nintendo will... They're playing improv right now. It's just whatever you all decide to do, we'll figure it out and then we'll act accordingly. And I think you're totally right. I think it Es ist ein leichter Weg, zu sagen, hey, das ist fΓΌr euch. Es tut weh, aber das ist, was es ist.

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Nintendo Maintains Switch 2 Price, Pre-Orders Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.18.25

It definitely happened like two years or a year and a half ago somewhere else. And I think that right now Nintendo will... They're playing improv right now. It's just whatever you all decide to do, we'll figure it out and then we'll act accordingly. And I think you're totally right. I think it Es ist ein leichter Weg, zu sagen, hey, das ist fΓΌr euch. Es tut weh, aber das ist, was es ist.