How much will the Nintendo Switch 2 cost after Trump’s tariffs? 

I watched the Nintendo Switch 2 event waiting for the three most important details from Nintendo: the release date, price, and preorder date for the new handheld. The company didn't quite deliver them during the Direct launch event. Nintendo only told the world the new console will hit stores in early June, without offering the price or the preorder date during the one-hour video.

I thought we might get an additional announcement at a later point in time, but it turns out Nintendo was going to reveal the Switch 2 price and preorder date on Wednesday, just not during the event. We learned from the Switch 2 press release that the console will be available for preorder on April 9th. You'll have to pay $449.99 for the Switch 2 or $499.99 if you want the Mario Kart World bundle.

The latter seems like the better option seeing that some Nintendo Switch 2 games will cost $80 or $90, depending on whether you like digital downloads or physical releases. Speaking of digital things, Switch 2 microSD cards are also more expensive because they're fast, like SSDs. No, the old memory cards you already own won't work.

Gamers hated everything about the Switch 2 price reveal, and that's understandable. Leaks and estimates said the console would cost $399, while games would only go up by $10 to $70.

All of this information dropped hours before President Trump made his own announcement. The US imposed tariffs of at least 10% on almost every country on Earth, with some of them getting hit much harder than others. As you might have guessed, the countries that are part of the Switch 2 supply chain were hit with tariffs, too. Nobody was safe.

A day later, people are wondering how those tariffs will impact the prices of some of the products they plan to buy this year, whether it's the iPhone 17 or the Nintendo Switch 2.

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