The many "mistakes" of the Nintendo Switch" article.

[Hynad]

Ka-pi96 said:

Hynad said:

Nintendo did mention that people had to check with their retailers for European prices. Could it be that's there's something in place there that prevent them from fixing a certain price? I really don't know. But I thought it was peculiar that they wouldn't give a definite European price during their presentation.

VAT. It varies quite a bit across Europe. IIRC the same is true with tax in the US but I think you guys are used to prices before tax. Us Europeans would be pissed/confused if Nintendo gave a pre-tax price and then when we went to the store and see it's a fair chunk higher than that.

That's something I liked when I went to Europe. Prices on the tags are what you pay for at the counter.  Where I'm from, there's roughly 15% taxes in place. But it's not included on the price tag. So you always have to calculate it when you to your shopping. What's worse, for things like grocery, some product are taxable, while others aren't, making it hard to keep track. I really don't know why they don't include the taxes on the tags, to be honest and I think it's stupid that they don't. It's not like our taxes fluctuate all the time.