"The majority of Switch consoles are made in China"

Damn...Why was everyone saying the majority were made in Vietnam?

Anyway, Trump has caved multiple times already so I'm not too concerned, I expect he will cave even more soon, in the meanwhile, I assume Nintendo will start shipping everything made in China to countries outside of America and everything not made in China to America but the question is if they have the supply for that, I doubt they do, so I assume still some China shipments will have to be sent to America.

If we didn't have pesky things like businesses to worry about, I would have said fuck America and let them deal with limited supply, they can have the limited Vietnam supply and the rest of the world can have the China supply, but obviously, Nintendo can't do that because America is a huge market, unfortunately, Lol.

The majority of Switch consoles sent to the USA are made in Vietnam (60%), but they haven't fully left it. So Vietnam is the majority supplier for Nintendo hardware to USA, but globally China is still the majority. But yes the main question is how many units will Nintendo be able to supply to the USA without using China, I mean the thing was going to sell everything it shipped anyway but it may be even harder to get a Switch 2 in the USA than it would have been.

Nintendo already shipped over 1m Vietnam-made consoles to US this year, as Switch 2 launch threatened by tariffs | Eurogamer.net

According to Bloomberg a third of Switch 2 consoles are made in Vietnam, with most of the rest made in China. They're also now shipping everything made in Vietnam to the USA.

So it is possible that they could fully supply the USA from Vietnam. So the China tariff's shouldn't be too much of a problem, it might just be the 10% they have to worry about for Switch 2, though Switch 1 shipments may be affected.

I don't know if the Camera, Controllers and other Nintendo accessories still ship from China and may be impacted.

Yeah if anything Switch 1 might be in trouble because Vietnam has to fully focus Switch 2 supply to the US. Maybe Switch Lite bundled with more games could retail for 299.99.

Well, it's been over 10 days since it was delayed and almost a week after the pre-orders were meant to go up and we've still not got a new date. Must mean that it is a difficult decision for them, whether $450 is still a viable RRP or not.

Of course it's difficult when there's still a sweeping 10% tariff on all countries right now. That's still significant enough to push up the RRP to $500.

I just don’t think they can afford to raise the price. It’s been a total disaster from a PR perspective in terms of how the already announced prices have gone over. Nintendo hasn’t had this much negativity surrounding them in the casual eye and media since peak Wii U days. If they raise the prices further, I’m calling it now that this is going to be a massive failure for them initially and they will have to slash prices quickly ala 3DS.

Was there no tariff before? Is it possible that some type of tariff was always included in the $450.00 price?

Edit: @HyrulianScrolls I imagine they could just greatly reduce the amount of Switch 2 non bundled consoles and greatly favor the already $499.99 priced Mario Kart World bundles which are already favored per reports of pre-orders in other countries.

It's quite hard to find historical information on tariffs on Vietnam before all this kicked off. But after a lot of digging I've finally worked out what the situation in China was and it seems unlikely that tariff's would be more tough on Vietnam than China.

Video Game Consoles (HTS code 9504.50) have not been affected by tariffs from China previously. They were duty free imports from MFN (most favoured nations) which Vietnam also was.

Trump threatened to tariff video game consoles from China and a lot more products in List 4 of Section 301 which resulted in a joint letter from MS/Nintendo/Sony in June 2019: Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft issue joint statement against tariff proposed by Trump administration | VG247

Eventually List 4A did go ahead in September 2019 and a whole range of products were now tariffed at 10%: TRG Section 301 Lists.xlsx

But Video Game Consoles were not part of List 4A. The Video Game Consoles were going to be implemented as part of List 4B: TRG Section 301 Lists.xlsx You can see the consoles in this list here (9504.50) and they were in-line to get a 10% tariff.

However List 4B tariffs were suspended when America reached the "phase one" trade agreement with China: China and United States Reach Phase 1 Deal – List 4B Canceled - USA

So tariffs on 9504.50 (video game consoles) were never implemented on China.

All of this is to say that if tariffs for video games consoles were never implemented on China and they suspended their plans to charge them 10% it's very unlikely they've been charging Vietnam 10% tariffs on video game consoles before they had blanket tariff rates this year. Especially as video game console imports from Vietnam to the USA will have been very low until recently, with Nintendo beginning a shift to Vietnam after Trump's initial threat of 25% back in 2019. As the joint letter linked above says, 96% of video game consoles imported into the USA in 2018 were from China.

And as for Tariff's being included in the $450 price, Nintendo have denied this: Nintendo Says Tariffs Weren't Factored Into the $450 Price of the Switch 2