Nintendo Pushes Back Nintendo Switch 2 Preorder Date, Cites Trump Tariffs

Nintendo is officially pushing the preorder date for Switch 2 customers successful the U.S. The institution cited uncertainty surrounding U.S. tariffs arsenic the main origin for the delay, though the bequest Japanese crippled shaper promised the June 5 motorboat day is inactive successful effect.

In a connection sent to Gizmodo, Nintendo said “Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 successful the U.S. volition not commencement April 9, 2025, successful bid to measure the imaginable interaction of tariffs and evolving marketplace conditions. Nintendo volition update timing astatine a aboriginal date. The motorboat day of June 5, 2025 is unchanged.”

Nintendo shared each the details astir the $450 Switch 2’s features, price, and motorboat day during the official Switch 2 Direct connected April 2, the aforesaid time that Trump announced sweeping tariffs hitting practically each state successful the world, including Nintendo’s reported hardware manufacturing bases of Cambodia and Vietnam, arsenic identified by The Financial Times. Some analysts who spoke to Gizmodo antecedently said Nintendo apt calculated the outgo of tariffs into its Switch 2 terms point. Still, the institution was deed hard by Trump’s arbitrary import taxation scheme. President Donald Trump enactment a 46% tariff connected Vietnam and a 49% tariff connected Cambodia.

Nintendo has repeatedly promised investors it has prepared its manufacturing to person capable Switch 2 units to bushed scalpers. The caller question is if it needs to set pricing to marque up for the implicit skyrocketing terms of shipping units to the U.S. Some analysts claimed Nintendo has brought adjacent to 400,000 units to the U.S. earlier the tariffs hit, but preorder numbers could easy eclipse that, and conscionable successful the U.S. alone.

Nintendo sold 13.4 cardinal archetypal Switch systems during its merchandise twelvemonth successful 2017, according to Omdia data. The analytics steadfast forecasted the institution would merchantability 14.7 cardinal Switch 2s this year, though that wasn’t accounting for the interaction of tariffs.

This communicative is ongoing, and we volition beryllium updating this leafage arsenic we larn more.