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Nintendo [of America] sues the US government over tariffs — Japanese videogame giant seeks 200 billion refund with interest
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alessandro lemmy.ca alessandro@lemmy.ca
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brillotti lemmy.world brillotti@lemmy.world
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None of that is going to customers who overpaid, is it?

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MBech feddit.dk MBech@feddit.dk
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None of that is going to customers who overpaid, is it?

Are you mad? The poor capitalists need that 200 billion! Otherwise their chrildren won't be able to afford a 3rd yacht, is that seriously what you expect??? You make me sick!

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Midnitte beehaw.org Midnitte@beehaw.org
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argues that those tariffs were unlawfully imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) and seeks the return of the collected duties "with interest," along with attorney fees and the reprocessing of its import entries.

Simply amazing lol. Certainly tired of all the "winning".

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TommySoda lemmy.world TommySoda@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
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I just hope this gets more huge companies to start suing. I've already accepted that I won't see any of that money again so I'd at least love to see how far this goes.

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SeductiveTortoise piefed.social SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-07-16
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None of that is going to customers who overpaid, is it?

I didn't overpay (because not living in the US) so take what I write with grain of salt but at this point I'm just happy the US gets their ass whooped. Yeah, it sucks for the people living there, but it's necessary.

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Chivera lemmy.world Chivera@lemmy.world
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They sue over this but not when ICE used their Pokemon IP on their videos?

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PonyOfWar pawb.social PonyOfWar@pawb.social
Joined: 2023-06-12
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They sue over this but not when ICE used their Pokemon IP on their videos?

That's 2 different companies (Nintendo vs The Pokemon Company). But also yeah, obviously they have much more to gain when it's about $200B.

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MetalSlugX piefed.social MetalSlugX@piefed.social
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Absolute fucking shit article.

Read the fucking lawsuit before ya compose and post your feeble excuse for journalism, Mr. Tom Shardware.

The total tariffs globally collected are around $200B but Nintendo is only seeking the return of their chunk plus attorney fees.

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Jesusaurus lemmy.world Jesusaurus@lemmy.world
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That's 2 different companies (Nintendo vs The Pokemon Company). But also yeah, obviously they have much more to gain when it's about $200B.

I have to suspect it's 200b yen, even though the article states "$200 billion". The later with a 15% tarrif would imply $1.33 trillion in US sales in the last year, which I highly doubt

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Agrivar lemmy.world Agrivar@lemmy.world
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Absolute fucking shit article. Read the fucking lawsuit before ya compose and post your feeble excuse for journalism, Mr. Tom Shardware. The total tariffs globally collected are around $200B but Nintendo is only seeking the return of their chunk plus attorney fees. [DO NOT DELETE FOOTER BELOW]

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Huh?

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MetalSlugX piefed.social MetalSlugX@piefed.social
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[DO NOT DELETE FOOTER BELOW] Huh?

See link

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Hideakikarate sh.itjust.works Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
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I have to suspect it's 200b yen, even though the article states "$200 billion". The later with a 15% tarrif would imply $1.33 trillion in US sales in the last year, which I highly doubt

According to news sites, the US government took in about $166 billion, although I'm also seeing $175 billion floating around. CBP is claiming that they can't comply with the refund order as quickly as they want because of technological and manpower excuses. They're claiming that the large number of refunds and the current manpower is limiting their ability to quickly issue these refunds.

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village604 adultswim.fan village604@adultswim.fan
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None of that is going to customers who overpaid, is it?

Did Nintendo raise prices?

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sp3ctr4l lemmy.dbzer0.com sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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CluckN lemmy.world CluckN@lemmy.world
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See link

Of course you do he’s a Nintendo IP

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brillotti lemmy.world brillotti@lemmy.world
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Did Nintendo raise prices?

Nintendo games on the Switch 2 are generally $20 higher than their Switch 1 counterparts.

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BCsven lemmy.ca BCsven@lemmy.ca
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According to news sites, the US government took in about $166 billion, although I'm also seeing $175 billion floating around. CBP is claiming that they can't comply with the refund order as quickly as they want because of technological and manpower excuses. They're claiming that the large number of refunds and the current manpower is limiting their ability to quickly issue these refunds.

Manpower? They could use the ICE idiots as manpower

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oddpixel lemmy.wtf oddpixel@lemmy.wtf
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Manpower? They could use the ICE idiots as manpower

They'd be awfully upset if they could read what you just suggested.

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IronBird lemmy.world IronBird@lemmy.world
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I didn't overpay (because not living in the US) so take what I write with grain of salt but at this point I'm just happy the US gets their ass whooped. Yeah, it sucks for the people living there, but it's necessary.

am american, can confirm.
americans as a whole are dumb as fuck, the only chance of them learning lessons is through direct personal pain

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SmokedBillionaire sh.itjust.works SmokedBillionaire@sh.itjust.works
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#21 · (edited) Quote Reply

They sue over this but not when ICE used their Pokemon IP on their videos?

Sadly they had no legal standing on that due to parody law. I'm sure they would have if they could have.

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iamthetot piefed.ca iamthetot@piefed.ca
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Nintendo games on the Switch 2 are generally $20 higher than their Switch 1 counterparts.

That's not because of tariffs though.

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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They sue over this but not when ICE used their Pokemon IP on their videos?

nintendo only owns 1/3 of pokemon apparently, the other is gamefrek/masuda, i forgot the 3rd one.

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NotSafeForWorld lemmy.dbzer0.com NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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nintendo only owns 1/3 of pokemon apparently, the other is gamefrek/masuda, i forgot the 3rd one.

The Pokémon Company owns the other third

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super_user_do feddit.it super_user_do@feddit.it
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I cant imagine how powerful a corporation can be if they feel comfortable suing the fucking governemtnt

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abcdqfr lemmy.world abcdqfr@lemmy.world
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Of course you do he’s a Nintendo IP

what in the 4chan is this thread. gonna dig into their trip codes next? Quick, someone drop a racial slur

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boonhet sopuli.xyz boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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I have to suspect it's 200b yen, even though the article states "$200 billion". The later with a 15% tarrif would imply $1.33 trillion in US sales in the last year, which I highly doubt

The article states $166 billion in duties and tariffs total, not from Nintendo products. It doesn't actually state an amount for Nintendo in particular.

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some_kind_of_guy lemmy.world some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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what in the 4chan is this thread. gonna dig into their trip codes next? Quick, someone drop a racial slur

Clanker!

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melsaskca lemmy.ca melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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Oh trump. What have you wrought?

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I_Has_A_Hat lemmy.world I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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Oh trump. What have you wrought?

Absolutely nothing for him. They'll tie it up in the courts for years until the next guy has to deal with it.

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GeeDubHayduke lemmy.dbzer0.com GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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am american, can confirm. americans as a whole are dumb as fuck, the only chance of them learning lessons is through direct personal pain

"He's not hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting!"

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Jaysyn lemmy.world Jaysyn@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-04-09
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I thought the tariff total collected by pedo Trump and his fash buddies was "only" $176 Billion?

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chunes lemmy.world chunes@lemmy.world
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I hope they both lose.

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Test_Tickles lemmy.world Test_Tickles@lemmy.world
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I cant imagine how powerful a corporation can be if they feel comfortable suing the fucking governemtnt

People sue the us government all the time over just about anything. It's only under this guy that it seems dangerous. But even then, as long as they bribe him, they can steal from the US government all they want and he won't do anything.

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Charzard4261 programming.dev Charzard4261@programming.dev
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The Pokémon Company owns the other third

The Pokémon Company is a joint venture between Nintendo, GameFreak and Creatures Inc. Control of TPC is what people mean when they say Nintendo/GameFreak "own" 30%.

The story behind the trio is an interesting read, and IIRC Creatures is like wholly owned by Nintendo anyway so they technically have majority control of TPC.

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unphazed lemmy.world unphazed@lemmy.world
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I thought the tariff total collected by pedo Trump and his fash buddies was "only" $176 Billion?

And all of that was at the cost of Nintendo, didn't you know? They single handedly took on that cost so Americans wouldn't have to spend a cent more. They didn't even increase their products by more than 35% in relation to an increase of 10%.

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jaselle lemmy.ca jaselle@lemmy.ca
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I'm going to be honest I have trouble believing Nintendo sold anywhere close to $200 billion dollars worth of switch 2s.

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jaselle lemmy.ca jaselle@lemmy.ca
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I cant imagine how powerful a corporation can be if they feel comfortable suing the fucking governemtnt

I think it's great that organizations can and do sue the government

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Gamma beehaw.org GammaGames@beehaw.org
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I'm going to be honest I have trouble believing Nintendo sold anywhere close to $200 billion dollars worth of switch 2s.

It’s a bad headline, all the companies are estimating that much total

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Jomega lemmy.world Jomega@lemmy.world
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They sue over this but not when ICE used their Pokemon IP on their videos?

Music rights are notoriously convoluted. Long story short, that's not their department.

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k0e3 lemmy.ca k0e3@lemmy.ca
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Manpower? They could use the ICE idiots as manpower

You expect them to be able to read numbers?

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super_user_do feddit.it super_user_do@feddit.it
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I think it's great that organizations can and do sue the government

Im just afraid this thing can be abused man. Big corpos are not good, actually most of them are evil

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jaselle lemmy.ca jaselle@lemmy.ca
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Im just afraid this thing can be abused man. Big corpos are not good, actually most of them are evil

Yeah but that doesn't mean that if a corporation is doing it it's evil.

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inclementimmigrant lemmy.world inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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I'm going to be honest I have trouble believing Nintendo sold anywhere close to $200 billion dollars worth of switch 2s.

It's not about sales, it's about how many units they had to get through customs.

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