Greg Miller

It should be noted that not all of Trump's tariffs are now gone, as not all of them were enacted using the IEPA.

But many of his so-called reciprocal taxes have now been ruled illegal.

Last year, Trump's reciprocal tariffs and his trade war against countries like China and Canada directly led to Nintendo delaying pre-orders of the Switch 2 in April.

In August, the company quietly raised the prices on many Switch accessories and on various models of the original console.

Other companies like Sony and Microsoft followed suit with similar price increases on hardware and accessories as a result of tariffs against countries that produced many of the parts needed to manufacture gaming hardware.

In a better, less horrible timeline, most of Trump's trade war tariffs being deemed illegal would lead to video game hardware prices going down.

But we don't live in that timeline.

President Trump has many different legal avenues for reinstating many of the now illegal tariffs, as helpfully pointed out by a Bloomberg chart, if you want to go read it there.

Even if all of these legal backup plans fail and he's unable to get all or most of his precious tariffs made legal again, console and gaming PC prices are likely to keep going up and up and up due to the ongoing memory shortage caused by AI hyperscalers racing to build massive data centers.

But at least you can take comfort in knowing that Trump is having a bad day today.

That's something, right?

Jerrica, fuck Donald Trump.

It sucks.

This is the worst part of this whole fucking timeline, as Zach points out.

This happens, great.

Nothing will change.

Cat's out of the bat.

Everything's fucked.

Yeah, yeah, take an L. That's great.

You know, the Supreme Court definitely has been a shit show.