Trump to begin new tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China

[IcaroRibeiro]

haxxiy said:

IcaroRibeiro said:

10% is fine, 25% is a bit big

About your concern regarding Nintendo, are the physical games not manufactured in US? If so then yes, this means you can expect Nintendo physical to be sold for 80 USD next gen, unless Nintendo accepts to lose part of their profit from physical games or move their physical production to USA

If the physical games are already produced in USA, then I don't think the tarrifs are going to be applied

AFAIK Switch cartridges are made in Japan. US blu-ray movies and Xbox physical games are made in Mexico.

I don't see any tarrif regarding Japan, if this is the case Nintendo games will be effectively the only one unaffected in the market which can lead to a significant market advantage for Nintendo 

Xbox and Playstation games being sold for 87,5 USD in other hand would be a disaster that will effectively end physical gaming market for both systems. For Microsoft which is going full on service and digital I don't think it's a concern, but for Sony most of its fandom loyalty comes to the fact they still release physical games. Even if Sony wants to go full digital eventually I think this can enter in a dangerous territory where they will lose part of their loyal userbase