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Nintendo are scumbags but this isn’t scummy. You can’t expect money back for everything you buy if and when they get discounted.
By the same logic, Nintendo isn’t entitled to a refund because they got what they paid for.
Imagine the court to dismiss the lawsuit, and then use their decision as evidence for refusing USA to pay tariff refunds to Nintendo.
Time to tell the crackheads that Nintendo HQ is made entirely of copper and catalytic converters.
Ok well I am never buying another Nintendo product again. Fuck them.
Second hand market doesn’t financially support them. You can have your cake and eat it too.
A glorious suggestion! I love it.
Ferengi rules of acquisition.
- Once you have their money, you never give it back.
Nintendo told the court that “the doctrine of unjust enrichment does not apply when a party voluntarily pays a purchase price and receives a product in return.” Nintendo said plaintiffs “received exactly what they paid for: Nintendo products that Plaintiffs knowingly and voluntarily purchased at the advertised price. Nor is there anything ‘unjust’ about Nintendo retaining money that it may receive from the government as tariff refunds. The fact that Nintendo stands to receive tariff refunds does not give Plaintiffs any legal entitlement to those funds.”
I’m a lifelong Nintendo fan but this is robber baron speak. You don’t blame the victim of price manipulation by telling them they deserve to pay unjust prices because they have no other choice than to pay unjust prices or go without. This is the type of shit medieval feudal lords would pull when oppressing peasants. This type of behavior doesn’t belong in the 21st century.
This has been the true face of Nintendo all along…
Nintendo has become an awful company.
Stop supporting them.
By their own logic, they don’t have a right to tariff refunds either.
They want to eat their cake, and have it to. Will capitalism benefit the capitalists like it does 99.99% of the time? You bet your sweet ass it will!
99.99% of the time, it works every time!
I’m reminded of how Disney pulled most of their movie ideas from the public domain, and then pushed hard to try to extend copyright so that none of their movies would ever enter the public domain themselves.
Board the ship, then pull up the ladder
I hate comments like this. Nintendo paid an illegal tax, so they deserve a refund. Consumers got screwed by their government, not Nintendo.
Also, if you think the tariffs, AI, threat of more tariffs, Iran war, etc. haven’t increases the cost of operations for businesses then you’re not paying attention to current events.
I hate comments like this. Mega corps do not need you to defend them. Fuck them. They can afford to give some of that money back.
I’m not defending anyone, just explaining how the law is working in this scenario as people seems to have lost the ability to understand simple taxes (tariffs).
I mean, not quite the same logic. The tariffs that Nintendo paid were deemed illegal. The price consumers paid was not deemed to be illegal. At least, not yet, as the case is ongoing.
I’m sure their logic would also say “When we raised prices, fewer people bought our stuff, so we already paid the price.” Or something skeezy like that.
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Nintendo aren’t a good company but they no doubt lost sales due to the higher tariffs and I don’t really blame them.
My opinion the tariffs are the US’s own fault they shouldn’t have voted in a moron.
They also don’t know what the current US adminstration will do next. As soon as the tarrifs were struck down Trump implemented new ones. And the thing is that he wasn’t even given as much as a stern talking to for implementing these illegal world affecting tarrifs. In other nations these would have been career ending.
In other nations, the leading government figure probably isn’t kept in power by politicians that refuse to do their duty or citizens that stopped caring about facts when it was still legal to smoke on planes.
My opinion the tariffs are the US’s own fault they shouldn’t have voted in a moron.
Actually, the election was rigged in favor of Trump. He stole it. You just don’t hear about it because all he does is cover up shit and gut regulatory bodies while screaming about the left doing it first.
I’ll say the same thing to you as I said to them back then. You have to provide proof for claims like that. I really want that to be true and something to be done about it but I need evidence first.
They provided the admission too
My mother bought me an NES when I was a child, and shortly after Nintendo lowered the price and they voluntarily refunded her the difference.
She told me years later that secured her as a Nintendo customer for my games for life.
This greed is disgusting, but more than anything it’s depressing.
i think you mean the store she bought it from refunded you the difference.
many retail outlets have 30 day price guarantees, sometimes 90.
Nobody was buying NES systems direct from Nintendo.
Nintendo offered mail in rebates with proof of purchase back in the day. I have no idea if that applied to OPs story but it wasn’t the store offering the rebate in these cases
back then they did, I doubt any have it now.
Hell, walmart wont even price match its own website… and like or hate walmart, thats the cheapest place in town to get shit so thats where most people, especially in this economy, will be shoppin.
Not only that, walmart won’t even do price adjustments anymore. they got rid of that about 3 or 4 years ago.
It used to be if you bought an item and the price fell within 14 days of purchase you could do a price adjustment on it. Now if you give the reason it’s cheaper as a reason for the return, they will refuse to do the exchange full stop.
it’s stupid because their return policy is still 90 days on most items, so you can just… return the item as a change mind, and then go and buy a brand new unopened one off the shelf for the reduced price… so not only are they out the money anyway but they also now have to sell or claims out a used product and are down a new unopened product ontop of it.
Amazon doesn’t do it anymore either, they used to offer price adjustments on anything within 30 days of purchase as long as you contact customer support. Now they force you to return the item and buy it again.
it’s not super common but a couple times a year i will buy something and the price drops a week or two later and you can contact them to get a gift card for the difference. you aren’t going to get in in cash or credit in 2026 though. it’s 30 days from date of purchase for all the places i have done this for.
Just got a statement credit on a CC for a tv bought from Best buy. July 4th sale…30 day price match against themselves
giftcards arent refunds.
They are a marketing ploy to get you to come back and spend more money.
Yep. I’m just an idiot. It’s not like I’ll go back to the store ever again and I’m a regular customer.
They are clearly ENTRAPPING ME. Just like all the times I returned a product and they gave me a full refund, that was also total entrapment. Or when I returned a product for a warrenty fufillment and they replaced it, also entrapment.
He’s out of line, but he’s got a point
what point is that? that companies are evil if they give you refunds in gift cards?
am i also evil when I get my nephews gift cards for christmas? because i’m restricting their consumer choice!
because 12 year olds care about what store they buy games from…
Sure buddy.
I was like, 5 when it happened, so I’ve never confirmed it, and my mother is definitely the kind of person who would misremember this kind of thing, but from what she claims she called them directly because they dropped the MSRP, not just a store price drop.
Take it with a grain of salt though.
Sorry your mom’s greedy Nintendo probably
IMO I think it’s weird to focus specifically on Nintendo. The American government basically screwed over its populace and a ton of foreign companies (less sympathy for the former though). I don’t think it’s realistic to expect these companies to reimburse companies, because logistically it’d be a nightmare. The only way I can imagine consumers getting their money back is if the government used the tarrif money to pay a portion of the federal income tax for its citizens, ideally the lower tax vracket. Unfortunately that won’t happen.
lemmy seems to have a hard on for painting Nintendo particularly as this awful terrible corporation. Most likely because they are bitter they won’t lower their game prices. And they turn it into this weird moral issue and compare them to Steam as if Steam is the ‘good guy’ and Nintendo is the ‘bad guy’. it’s basically virtue signalling over consumer choice or something, instead of political issues. because only bad stupid people would ever own a switch or something.
I mean, cool. I don’t buy a lot of shit from a lot of companies because I also don’t find their pricing and business model appealing. But it’s not a moral issue in any way. There are far worse examples of course, too. Jeep makes objectively shitty cars for decades, but people keep buying them, and complaining about how they are shitty, for the lifestyle image/cool club they think owning a Jeep puts them in.
But you’re 100% right and basically no company is giving customers refunds over any of this because it’s already enough of a clusterfuck as it is to get their own refunds. But hey, let’s not let complex and costly reality get in the way of idealistic consumer entitlement over like $20 bucks, which even if they could give people the refunds, it probably would among to very little money. Even more hilarious is that folks who never bought the product still seem to think they should get a refund from Nintendo because they had a Gamecube 20 years ago.
“GUYS I DONT LIKE PEOPLE STANDING UP FOR THEMSELVES, WHY NINTENDO CUSTOMERS NOT BE LIKE OTHER CUSTOMERS AND NOT STAND UP FOR THEMSELVES!!!11!!!1!!”
The best way to “stand up for yourself” when a company that sells a luxury product is to not buy said product. In which case this tariff nonsense doesn’t affect you. More people were affect by the increase in the cost of groceries and gas than the cost of a Switch 2.
yeah, your human rights are being violated, clearly.
meanwhile pharma companies are murdering people with drug costs, but this is where you draw the line. very brave and strong and smart!
Yes, because multiple things can’t be fought at once.
Big brain moment for you with that laughably pathetic attempt at a gotcha.
The alternative being… not paying and still getting it, Nintendo??
Or would you rather no one buy or play games from you? I stopped a long time ago.
Nintendo had long since realized that their customers are kids who see Pokemon and Mario and scream at their parents until they buy it for them. They can charge whatever they want and those kids will still bug their parents until they get it.
Everyone else that buys their products is just a bonus if they still keep buying even after the prices get jacked up. Nintendo made their decision about who to prioritize, and the only boycott that would work to turn things around would have to be orchestrated by all the parents of all the 6 year olds in the world, and I doubt that’ll happen.
I play my Steam Deck more than I play my Switch 2.
Likewise. The Switch 2 is a very nice handheld, but it doesn’t hold a candle to having a never-locked-down x86 PC in your hands.
it also costs half as much as a steamdeck.
you’re comparing a Civic to a BMW3 series and asking why the Civic doesn’t have leather seats and a 5K audio system.
If you want to discuss prices, discuss them fully. The Deck is more expensive, but the games are cheaper. And the day I bought the Deck I already had a massive collection, with many more games added for free from epic, giveaways…
Depends on when you buy the game. New retail games on steam deck are still 50-60 bucks.
I can also find massive discounts on digital games on switch. I just bought like a bunch of $5 or less games on the last eshop sale.
Does Zelda and Mario go on sale for $5? No. They go on sale for like $30-40. I also just bought Mario Odsyessy for $40.
I’m happy to pay these prices. Cool if you are not? Lots of people buy shit I would never spend my money on. I haven’t bought a gaming PC in 15 years, because it me it seems like a huge waste of money and time.
Almost as if other people have different preferences, and priorities than you do? And they are happy to buy products you are not.
Well, it does NOW. At the prices I paid the Steam Deck was only a bit more.
cool, and a few years ago you could get a switch lite for $200. still can, in fact.
I’m really not sure what point you’re trying to make here.
Is the Switch Lite the Honda Fit?
my point is everything was cheaper a few years ago.
the only console outside of my Steam Deck that i still occasionally use is my old Nintendo DS, because of it’s small form factor and my seemingly undying M3 card lol
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Back when Nintendo made good consoles. My 3DS has been my daily driver since 2012, and so far only needed to replace the thumbstick because the rubber degraded. It’s a little tank and I love it.
I had to replace my DS because the hinge broke, which was pretty common back then. I scored myself a used one from the revision a few years back, where they made the hinges more robust.
