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[–] brillotti@lemmy.world 114 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 66 points 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago (1 children)

Did Nintendo raise prices?

[–] brillotti@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 5 points 5 days ago

That's not because of tariffs though.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago

I hope they both lose.

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 74 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 31 points 6 days 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 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago (2 children)

Manpower? They could use the ICE idiots as manpower

[–] oddpixel@lemmy.wtf 7 points 6 days ago

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

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

You expect them to be able to read numbers?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days 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.

[–] Jomega@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days 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 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Charzard4261@programming.dev 6 points 5 days 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.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
[–] MetalSlugX@piefed.social 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 6 days ago (1 children)

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Huh?

[–] MetalSlugX@piefed.social 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Of course you do he’s a Nintendo IP

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days 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.

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

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 6 points 5 days ago

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

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days 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.

[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 2 points 4 days 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 4 days ago

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

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days 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.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days 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 5 days 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%.

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

Oh trump. What have you wrought?

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 6 points 6 days 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".