Hudo
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Afaik, it's even region locked. So they know exactly what they're doing...
Had anyone considered that Jensen Huang and Nvidia Corp may the villains in all of this?
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winjer
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Region locked consoles, movies, games, software, has always been the norm. Unfortunately.
The price in the USA is a clear sign of Trump tariffs. And it's not just Nintendo that will have to increase prices.
So it's going to get worse for gamers in the USA, as current stocks for current consoles and games end, and the new stock gets price increases to accommodate the new tariffs.
the yen's value dropped 30% in the last 5 years. Nintendo is likely eating a loss of the Switch 2 in Japan
Blackwell will likely go do the same as the RTX 2000 series. Rolls out new tech, but it's too early but lays the groundwork for future game development. The RTX 6000 Rubin in two years or so is when we'll see if this paid off for Nvidia or not.
It's great that AMD has a competitive product, though it still only hits Ada ray-tracing performance. AMD has to be hoping the move away from traditional raster than Blackwell is pushing doesn't happen, or we'll be hit with another decade of NVIDIA dominating. Though who knows what Intel has up their sleeves. It really seems like they were caught off guard with how well Battle Mage turned out to be. And they are competitive in ray-tracing performance though we've only seen the low-mid offerings so maybe it doesn't hold up in the high-mid range.
AngelMuffin
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When you're being bent over a barrel, it's best to do a barrel roll.
WAS the norm. It died off almost 20 years ago in the PS3/360 generation. Today it's just region locking to countries with low value currency so you can make some sales there, while the rest of the world isn't buying new releases at an exchange rate of $15USD. Though that is for PC games, Nintendo is the first I'm aware of doing it for console hardware.
The tariff excuse is also a load of BS. If it was the cause it wouldn't be the inflated price in every other country as well. And they wouldn't have delayed preorders in the US to re-evaluate.
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winjer
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Still is the norm. DVDs an Blurays are still region locked. Even on a PS5.
And although physical games are not region locked, PSN games and content are dependent on the region.
So although not as strict as it once was, region lock is still a thing.
Look at the price in Europe and the USA. Usually, the prices in the USA are around 20-25% cheaper, because they don't have VAT included. The best example of this are GPUs, such as the ones Nvidia sells. In the EU, they are much more expensive than in the USA.
But the Switch 2 has just a 15$ difference. This is because the Switch is set to release after the tariffs enter in effect. Nintendo is already prepared the price for that.
You can be certain that other consoles, GPUs, and other hardware will also see price increases in the future, as the current stock dwindles.
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Digital games aren't locked. On a PlayStation or Xbox you can create an login to an account from any region and purchase and play games. You can import games from any region and play. Movies are down to licensing, it is possible to create and there are region free disks that are sold. But physical media for movies is mostly dead which is why they are disappearing from retail stores.
Nintendo said preorders in the US were going live April 9th at the reveal. The next day they said due to tariffs they are re-evaluating. But the price in other countries are much higher than in Japan. Yes the price increased a small amount in the user versus Europe. The US tariffs wouldn't drastically inflate the cost in the rest of the world.
winjer
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There are games and DLC that are changed or blocked in certain regions.
Recently Sony had to deal a a backlash from PC gamers, because PSN was not available in many regions of the world, despite being available on Steam. But because of that gamers weren't play some games.
Fortunately Sony reverted the mandatory use of PSN.
Nintendo is subsidizing the Switch 2 in Japan. But not in the rest of the world.
US Tariffs affect US citizens.
Usually there is a significant price gap between prices in the EU vs the USA. For example, the Pro release in the EU, 100€ more than the price in the USA.
But now the Switch releases at almost the same value in euros and dollars.
Prepare to see more products incresing price in the future, such as other consoles, GPUs, iPhones, etc.