{"id":660745,"date":"2025-04-04T19:28:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T16:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nintendo-delays-switch-2-pre-orders-citing-tariff-uncertainty\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T19:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T16:28:39","slug":"nintendo-delays-switch-2-pre-orders-citing-tariff-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nintendo-delays-switch-2-pre-orders-citing-tariff-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders, Citing Tariff Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe tariffs are coming for the video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNintendo said in a statement Friday that it was delaying pre-orders in the U.S. for the hotly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 console, though it added that it is still on track for a June 5, 2025 release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cPre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions,\u201d the company said in a statement to <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. \u201cNintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNintendo had debuted the Switch 2 earlier this week, announcing the release date and a $450 price point. it also announced a number of high-profile games, including a new game in the<em>\u00a0Mario Kart\u00a0<\/em>franchise calls\u00a0<em>Mario Kart World<\/em>, and a new\u00a0<em>Donkey Kong<\/em>\u00a0game, called\u00a0<em>Donkey Kong Bananaza<\/em>, to be released later in the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOf course, just hours after Nintendo announced the Switch 2, President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, including a surprise 24% tariff on imports from Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tVideo games are a part of the entertainment business that could be hit hard by tariffs, as they rely on advanced electronics, chips and physical devices. In particular, new console sales like the Switch 2 could be hit particularly hard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Nintendo said in a statement Friday that it was delaying pre-orders in the U.S. for the hotly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 console, though it added that it is still on track for a June 5, 2025 release. \u201cPre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-mediaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}