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Building a basic factory is up to 2 years, depending on size, then you have to recruit all kinds of workers, many of which might not be readily available in a short notice of time, and might require college education. Manufacturing isn't just driving in the screws on an iPhone (which is more like glued together).

This is all assuming they'll use all US components, which are available, and at least higher-end US made capacitors are on the same level as their Japanese counterparts. The issue would be scope. Don't know what happened to that TSMC factory after Trump axing the CHIPS act. However, that "all American" Nintendo Switch 2 would cost a small fortune, and would be needed to be made much longer lasting that otherwise, since it's now incompatible with the notion of cheap and short lived products, which those on the top wouldn't approve.

Even if Nintendo moved final assembly to the US (which they won't), they'd still likely need to import the components they don't manufacture themselves like the screen, battery, memory chips, SoC and what not, which then again would be tarrifed.

Nintendo aren't going to move to America to get away from tariffs because they don't care. Their audience will buy the switch anyway, regardless of its price point and regardless of how much of that price point is affected by tariffs.

Also no company is going to move to America because of these tariffs because the Trump administration flip flops on an hourly basis. Who knows what policy will be next month let alone in 4 years time.

Dude must work in sales. That is an optimistic lead time.

How fast can a Japanese company move work to America to reduce import expenses?

Counterpoint: to avoid tariffs, how fast can American companies move out of America?

Man, Nintendo literally only recently finally integrated the ability to use voice chat into their system, after almost everyone else has been doing it for 15 years or so at this point.

And you think they can move everything in 2 to 3 months???

by the way this section of the warehouse is now an american embassy, and therefore the product is finished on american soil thanks

2-3 months is enough time to form a committee and establish the metrics that an acceptable plan would have to meet.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present your average american.

I could get it done tomorrow

Nintendo moving production to USA in 2-3 months? Only by USA invading Japan and adding it as 51st state lol

That guy knows nothing.

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