Even though I want a Switch 2, I'm actually fine with this because I think it's extremely important for the long-term health of American democracy for gamers to suffer as much as possible. - ThreadSky

ryanhatesthis.bsky.social • 18 hours ago

Even though I want a Switch 2, I'm actually fine with this because I think it's extremely important for the long-term health of American democracy for gamers to suffer as much as possible.

Reposted from Bloomberg News

Nintendo said it’s delaying Switch 2 pre-orders in the US due to concerns over Trump's global tariffs

Comments

jax1156.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Agreed

down10.bsky.social•13 hours ago

A fair tradeoff.

joeinkm.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Wait until the PC crowd sees the price of new video cards...

phalaenopsis-pyxis.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Treat-lerite Americans deserve to suffer.

mandoqueer.itch.io•17 hours ago

it's important that they suffer and that they suffer specifically because of conservative politics directly taking away Mario Kart.

mandoqueer.itch.io•17 hours ago

formative experience, direct line between this and my unquenchable thirst for conservative blood:

Hugo Chavez makes a law banning me from playing Twilight Princess

allhailmogambo.bsky.social•16 hours ago

trump take games

dburx.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I never wanted a Switch 2, don't even know what it is really, but boy I'm going to be a soft touch if the 10yo asks and I think buying one outside the US will increase US prices

ak0.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Agreed. "I voted for a right-wing reactionary/think both sides are the same and now I'm seeing everybody outside of America get to play with the fun new toy" is an important lesson for Gamers

dochsteiner.bsky.social•14 hours ago

ah at least in EU, we will have it before US!

blandphilosophy.bsky.social•17 hours ago

gamer gate dudes are at least partially responsible for this shit

deplorablehobbit.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I don't want to suffer though. I didn't fuck around I shouldn't have to find out

goofrider.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It's a golden opportunity to triple attendance at 50501 protests tomorrow tho

unmitigatedgaul1.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I’m frankly pleased I don’t even know what that is.

erniepurcell.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Anything that’s gonna rile people up without inflicting real harm is good news right now.

prepostroff.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Same, and oh my god “Trump take Nintendo” is like a headline sent from God to hurt him, my body can’t produce hope molecules anymore but I’m getting at least a tiny bump from this rn

baluartedemocracia.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Yeah, let's all ask Rockstar to scrap GTA 6

pkillboredom.com•18 hours ago

Announcing at $450 and then possibly bumping it up to $600 in a way that is unambiguously attributable to trump is exactly what gamers need

ubermitch.bsky.social•16 hours ago

can't wait to run the numbers on bootlegging switch 2s in from Canada

beaniefish.bsky.social•16 hours ago

They're gonna be entirely in Quebecois french with no other language options.

abys.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Smuggle me a bottle of Crown Royal and a Switch2 for $4,000, hell yeah, now I just need a tommy gun and a knee-length dress and I'm good to go in The New America

ubermitch.bsky.social•14 hours ago

*revving up my Chris-Craft on a lake that straddles the Minnesota-Ontario border*

haredurer.bsky.social•18 hours ago

"Gamers should suffer."
"For the greater good, right?"
"Yeah, sure."

schcrt.bsky.social•15 hours ago

polyglotprog.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Considering a large part of the far-right was garnered and created from brainwashing feeble minded gamers... Yes.. unequivocally yes..

mrrodriguez89.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Yes. This is my exact same position. Gamer Americans must suffer!!!

saegidius.bsky.social•16 hours ago

😂💪

heyincendiary.bsky.social•17 hours ago

If it was the PS6 I think we'd maybe peel off a few swing states.

rager.tech•16 hours ago

I mean this is pretty much all their fault.

ecto1vlad.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Emulatorssssss, mount up.

weekendfairy.bsky.social•17 hours ago

How could game journalists do this to us?

jhoward.bsky.social•15 hours ago

are the MAGA gamers really the ones playing mario and animal crossing? lol

maybe, but I’d love to see some viral articles about how tariffs will effect PS5, Xbox, whatever the next AAA shooter is…

apparently they’ve been stockpiling so it might take a while
https://tech.yahoo.com/business/articles/sony-increasing-ps5-supply-us-181431113.html

nocatsnomasters.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Even if you were right, which you are grossly not....

Did you see that FromSoft's next game is going to be Switch 2 exclusive? I fucking well guarantee you that MAGA gamers saw it.

jhoward.bsky.social•14 hours ago

the one everyone laughed at because it made no sense given the player base? I did see that

if you think Nintendo players are mostly MAGA, or more than on PS5 and Xbox, I’m happy to agree to disagree. I don’t know how we’d get hard numbers anyway 🤝

mulledwine.bsky.social•16 hours ago

If it gets some of the terminally online “gamers” to realize how all this shit actually impacts them outside of all the conservative memes, I’m for it.

wesmank.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Hopefully announcements from Sony and MS raising console prices soon. Also, need nvidia and amd to do the same. The more pain for Americans in the short term, the faster this nonsense ends.

crankylefty.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Shit take.

jayofthesea.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Why? What generalization are you assuming about gamers here?

radiantvimes.bsky.social•13 hours ago

That we tend to be sheltered from the consequences of our actions and from political/social conflict, and that far too many of us look an awful lot like bigoted sheltered man children

jayofthesea.bsky.social•13 hours ago

That’s assuming a lot.