US trade organization Warn

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) updated a report in January 2025, in which the cost of importing tech goods into the USA can increase between 24% and 69.4%. The latter number is expected for video game consoles if the Trump administration tariffs make progress as planned.

As Toms Hardware discovers, the report, which was written by the trading partnership worldwide, places on video game consoles, 87% of which are imported from China and the tariffs of 145% are exposed to – the hardest of all tech goods when the pausten tariffs are used for their current tariffs.

And if the tariffs go on, the estimates suggest that the financial failure of the video game console market alone would reconcile 10.4 billion US dollars from the entire US economy.

Analysts believe that this would send the price of consoles in the USA through – not To – around 428 US dollars, see imports 71% and triggered the cuts of consumer expenses by up to 73% – that is around 12 billion US dollars.

Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders were delayed in the USA due to the developing situation of the “mutual” tariffs of US President Donald Trump to imported goods. However, the start date of the console of June 5 has not changed.

Even before the excitement with tariffs, GameSindology. Biz spoke with analysts about why the 2 prices are so high and how inflation and other factors may have led to this decision.

Nintendo has published its financial results for the entire year today and reported a decline in net sales and profit, as it is preparing for the publication of the Switch 2 next month. As part of its results, the company announced its sales forecast for the upcoming console, in which it expects hardware sales of 15 million units, whereby sales with software are expected to be 45 million.

So far, 2.2 million people in Japan have applied for pre -orders of the Switch 2.