Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath. Though the Supreme Court has stymied the tariffs for the time being, the situation remains in flux for companies manufacturing goods outside the U.S. and sent stateside.

  • emb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    3 hours ago

    Important to note that many companies are suing, Nintendo is not uniquely taking on the government.

    Given recent rulings, it seems like not suing right now might be equivalent to giving up free money. Why not ask for what you’re owed?

    Sad thing is all these companies near certainly passed most of the costs onto consumers, and consumers almost certainly will see none of the refunds.

    • zikzak025@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      9 hours ago

      Sad thing is all these companies near certainly passed most of the costs onto consumers

      Nintendo explicitly said they did. They opted not to increase the asking price of the Switch 2 but did increase the prices of the Switch 1 and accessories of both consoles to compensate.

      https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/nintendo-switch-pricing-update/

      No way any customers see refunds from that. I doubt there will even be price reductions with the tariffs no longer in place.

    • Infrapink@thebrainbin.org
      11·
      9 hours ago

      Sad thing is all these companies near certainly passed most of the costs onto consumers, and consumers almost certainly will see none of the refunds.

      FWIW, Nintendo didn’t (because they got a bunch of Switch 2s into America before tariffs came into force).

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      14·
      10 hours ago

      consumers almost certainly will see none of the refunds.

      The only company I could maybe see doing this, though still unlikely, is Costco. Membership fees are ~2% of their revenue but ~70% of their profit, so they really do try hard to keep customers happy (since losing customers has the biggest impact on their profit). If there’s any risk of customers canceling their memberships over something, they’ll do what it takes to make the customers happy.