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Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser say that the fellowship did not factor out in possible tariffs from the U.S. when deciding on the pricing for its Nintendo Switch 2 console , accord to Wired .
Nintendo unveiled its highly anticipatedSwitch 2last week and announced that the console table would be releasedon June 5 , price at $ 450 . But later that day , President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would imposesweeping tariffson good imported into the country , send off the global saving into confusion .
U.S. preorders for the Switch 2 were imagine to begin on April 9 , but U.S. consumerswon’t be able-bodied to preorder the consoleuntil Nintendo visualise out how to address the tariff . Many of the Switch 2 ’s parts are gather and manufactured in China , Vietnam , and Cambodia ; under Trump ’s new plan , China is subject to 54 % tariff , while Cambodia and Vietnam are dependent to 49 % and 46 % tariff , severally .
harmonize to Bowser , Nintendo had already begun test to radiate where it makes product , prompt most product from China to other countries .
