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[–] brillotti@lemmy.world 114 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 66 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)

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 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did Nintendo raise prices?

[–] brillotti@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 5 points 1 week ago

That's not because of tariffs though.

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 74 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Manpower? They could use the ICE idiots as manpower

[–] oddpixel@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 week ago

They'd be awfully upset if they could read what you just suggested.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

You expect them to be able to read numbers?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week 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.

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 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Charzard4261@programming.dev 6 points 1 week 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.

[–] Jomega@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] chunes@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

I hope they both lose.

[–] MetalSlugX@piefed.social 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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 1 week ago (1 children)

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Huh?

[–] MetalSlugX@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course you do he’s a Nintendo IP

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week 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.

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago

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

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

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week 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".

[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I cant imagine how powerful a corporation can be if they feel comfortable suing the fucking governemtnt

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

People sue the us government all the time over just about anything. It's only under this guy that it seems dangerous. But even then, as long as they bribe him, they can steal from the US government all they want and he won't do anything.

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it's great that organizations can and do sue the government

[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Im just afraid this thing can be abused man. Big corpos are not good, actually most of them are evil

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah but that doesn't mean that if a corporation is doing it it's evil.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh trump. What have you wrought?

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Absolutely nothing for him. They'll tie it up in the courts for years until the next guy has to deal with it.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week 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%.