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How Nintendo Is Navigating Tariff Chaos with Secret Shipments and New Factories
How Nintendo Is Navigating Tariff Chaos with Secret Shipments and New Factories · The Wall Street Journal

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It was the greatest tragedy that could possibly befall our household, at least according to my 15- and 12-year-old sons: Their plan to pool their savings and preorder the eagerly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 game console was foiled by the Trump administration. Nintendo announced the full details of the Switch 2 on April 2, the same day Trump stood on the White House lawn with a poster board full of new tariffs. Two days later, the Japanese game giant said it would pause U.S. preorders of the Switch 2 on account of those tariffs.