Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/nintendo-sues-for-full-tariff-refund-after-backlash-over-price-hikes/

Last Friday, Nintendo joined thousands of companies suing the Trump administration to secure full refunds, plus interest, for billions in unlawful tariffs collected under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

In its complaint, Nintendo insisted that the Trump administration has already conceded that more than $200 billion in refunds are owed to hundreds of thousands of importers who paid tariffs, regardless of liquidation status.

However, Nintendo fears that the Trump administration may try to avoid paying refunds to certain companies whose tariff payments have already been liquidated, which means that the duties owed were finalized. The government has continually argued that it will only follow through on refunding all importers if a court directly orders refunds to be repaid in a way that requires reliquidation. Such an order would force officials to void all finalized tariffs and come as a relief to many companies in Nintendo’s position that remain uncertain if all their tariff payments can be clawed back.

Ultimately, Nintendo argued, it increasingly seems like the government plans to delay refunds until the court steps in. That leaves it up to the Court of International Trade to order Trump officials to do the right thing, Nintendo said. And in the gaming giant’s view, that’s to proceed with prompt refunds to make all importers whole.

Yet Nintendo games will still never go on sale and Nintendo will charge more for worse quality controllers than any other company in the business.

Yep, Americans pay more for products and then pay interest and court costs to companies. Those tariffs were such a genius idea, especially implementing them on a whim without knowing how tariffs work or how to legally implement them, right?

That's because prices don't reflect costs, but what sellers believe we will pay. If people stopped paying them...

I've only been pirating Nintendo games since the Wii era. When they released the Wii and stopped providing support for the old consoles they were dead to me. Before that I was able to get my NES serviced for $35 at Nintendo of America in Redmond, Washington and that included new parts and my games all getting cleaned.

I did find a 3DS on the side of the freeway once, but I firmware hacked it and loaded up a 128gb SD card with about 60 pirated games.

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You ever play any GCN in your travels? Wondering if I'm better off hacking my wii (due to the GCN being natively built in) or if emulation through something like dolphin might be better.

Never got to experience the gamecube all that much so im open to ideas. I do have one of those nice wireless wavebird controllers which has me slightly gravitating to hacking the wii

If you have a quality PC, I always promote emulation over hardware, just because modern PC hardware can do things like let you play old games at higher resolutions and framerates.

Also, if you want to use those Wavebirds on PC, you can use receiver for them in something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RSXRLUE

I like hacking the old systems, but I have more fun hacking them than actually continuing to game on them since using my PC and streaming the games to other screens is just more flexible for my needs.

Dolphin is really solidly built at this point, it's one of the most well put together emulators there is, imho.

Tariffs don't even impact video games, and yet they raised the prices by 33%

Should tell them he was seen with a knockoff DS full of roms. Just for funsies.

I revamped my 3ds recently and loaded that thing up! I’ll never part with this thing. I can also play MK online via Pretendo Network.

Um... Does that mean Nintendo lawyers are good guys now.... This is a strage timeline.

No because the money isn't going back to actual people

That's the insane part.

The companies charges the people for the tarrifs = gets their money.

The companies sues the government for the money they took from the people = gets more money.

Almost like that was the plan to begin with.

No way Nintendo took a hit to sales from prices + tariffs on purpose, not to mention spending legal fees, just so they'd get the money they would have got from being greedy assholes which they already were.

It only took a month before Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa foreshadowed tariff-linked price increases, a game industry news site closely monitoring Nintendo’s tariff moves reported. In May, Furukawa conceded that software wasn’t as impacted, but “hardware involves special factors such as tariffs,” which Nintendo must take into account, “while conducting careful and repeated deliberations when determining price.”

However, Furukawa said that the overall calculus for Nintendo weighed against increasing the Switch 2 price even more to cover tariffs, because seemingly Nintendo feared a higher price point would rob Switch 2 of sales and its games of exposure.

Thanks! I had no idea you could connect that controller to a PC thats really cool. My PC should be able to handle it find so I'll have to check it out!

I still remember the day that one coder decided to try and fix Dolphin and managed to make it going from rough to amazing in what seemed like it was overnight