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[-] chunes@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

I hope they both lose.

[-] jaselle@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

I'm going to be honest I have trouble believing Nintendo sold anywhere close to $200 billion dollars worth of switch 2s.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

It's not about sales, it's about how many units they had to get through customs.

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 6 points 1 day ago

It’s a bad headline, all the companies are estimating that much total

[-] brillotti@lemmy.world 110 points 3 days ago

None of that is going to customers who overpaid, is it?

[-] MBech@feddit.dk 64 points 3 days ago

Are you mad? The poor capitalists need that 200 billion! Otherwise their chrildren won't be able to afford a 3rd yacht, is that seriously what you expect??? You make me sick!

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 17 points 3 days ago

I didn't overpay (because not living in the US) so take what I write with grain of salt but at this point I'm just happy the US gets their ass whooped. Yeah, it sucks for the people living there, but it's necessary.

[-] IronBird@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

am american, can confirm. americans as a whole are dumb as fuck, the only chance of them learning lessons is through direct personal pain

[-] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

"He's not hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting!"

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 3 days ago

Did Nintendo raise prices?

[-] brillotti@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Nintendo games on the Switch 2 are generally $20 higher than their Switch 1 counterparts.

[-] iamthetot@piefed.ca 5 points 2 days ago

That's not because of tariffs though.

[-] Chivera@lemmy.world 74 points 3 days ago

They sue over this but not when ICE used their Pokemon IP on their videos?

[-] Jomega@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Music rights are notoriously convoluted. Long story short, that's not their department.

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 31 points 3 days ago

That's 2 different companies (Nintendo vs The Pokemon Company). But also yeah, obviously they have much more to gain when it's about $200B.

[-] Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I have to suspect it's 200b yen, even though the article states "$200 billion". The later with a 15% tarrif would imply $1.33 trillion in US sales in the last year, which I highly doubt

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

The article states $166 billion in duties and tariffs total, not from Nintendo products. It doesn't actually state an amount for Nintendo in particular.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago

According to news sites, the US government took in about $166 billion, although I'm also seeing $175 billion floating around. CBP is claiming that they can't comply with the refund order as quickly as they want because of technological and manpower excuses. They're claiming that the large number of refunds and the current manpower is limiting their ability to quickly issue these refunds.

Sadly they had no legal standing on that due to parody law. I'm sure they would have of they could have.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

nintendo only owns 1/3 of pokemon apparently, the other is gamefrek/masuda, i forgot the 3rd one.

[-] Charzard4261@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

The Pokémon Company is a joint venture between Nintendo, GameFreak and Creatures Inc. Control of TPC is what people mean when they say Nintendo/GameFreak "own" 30%.

The story behind the trio is an interesting read, and IIRC Creatures is like wholly owned by Nintendo anyway so they technically have majority control of TPC.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I thought the tariff total collected by pedo Trump and his fash buddies was "only" $176 Billion?

[-] unphazed@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

And all of that was at the cost of Nintendo, didn't you know? They single handedly took on that cost so Americans wouldn't have to spend a cent more. They didn't even increase their products by more than 35% in relation to an increase of 10%.

[-] MetalSlugX@piefed.social 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Absolute fucking shit article.

Read the fucking lawsuit before ya compose and post your feeble excuse for journalism, Mr. Tom Shardware.

The total tariffs globally collected are around $200B but Nintendo is only seeking the return of their chunk plus attorney fees.

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[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

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Huh?

[-] MetalSlugX@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Of course you do he’s a Nintendo IP

[-] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

what in the 4chan is this thread. gonna dig into their trip codes next? Quick, someone drop a racial slur

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Oh trump. What have you wrought?

[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

I just hope this gets more huge companies to start suing. I've already accepted that I won't see any of that money again so I'd at least love to see how far this goes.

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 7 points 3 days ago

argues that those tariffs were unlawfully imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) and seeks the return of the collected duties "with interest," along with attorney fees and the reprocessing of its import entries.

Simply amazing lol. Certainly tired of all the "winning".

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