Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade
  • alekwithak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Nintendo -
    Use our IP to advertise fascism: I sleep
    Fuck with our profits: I WAKE

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2 months

      Don’t. Just because a conflict exists doesn’t mean you need to pick a side.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    More than 1000 companies also have sued the US government

    I think it‘s past 2000 at this point and growing. This is huge.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2 months

      It’s big, but it’s not really impressive. It’s just for restitution, because the tariffs were already ruled illegal. This is just suing to see how much will be returned. It’s interesting, but it doesn’t effect much. It’d be nice if the money went to the consumers that paid the increase in prices, but we know that isn’t going to happen.

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2 months

    Companies suing the government for taxes that they just pass on to consumers is both the bread and the circuses of the modern age.

    • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2 months

      I think that Nintendo did not pass on the tariff to consumers in this situation meaning that they have literal monetary damages. At least, that’s the rumor.

      • Infrapink@thebrainbin.org
        2 months

        Switch 2s are cheaper in America than the Eurozone and the EU aren’t putting any new tariffs on Japan or Viernam, so they haven’t increased prices to account for tariffs. They pulled this off by getting a whole lot of Switch 2s into America before tariffs came into force.

        • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2 months

          I think Nintendo knows how important the US is to their bottom line so they’re willing to eat some shit before making a buck.

    • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2 months

      Fascists executing people on the street = evil

      Company that sells stuff that never goes on sale = evil

        • Miaou@jlai.luEnglish
          2 months

          Still nowhere near bombing schools and hospitals

    • null@lemmy.orgEnglish
      2 months

      Hey now, with Nintendo I at least get fun games and they don’t bomb me.

      • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2 months

        Just don’t pirate their shit to avoid provoking them. They take that so seriously they might consider it.

    • themurphy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2 months

      Nintendo evil for locking down emulators, using it’s market power to smash small indie etc etc.

      US evil for raping children, killing them, kills civilians, destroying millions of lives, bombing other countries, deporting families, stealing tax pater money etc etc.

      Yeah, good comparison you idiot…

      • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2 months

        The emulators that Nintendo killed were being developed by morons.

        They traded ROMs and used official an official dev kit without even hiding it. There is zero chance that any software company would not bury them ASAP.

        I use emulators and have a mister FPGA on my TV. I support emulators but some folks are too dumb to be a part of the community.

  • OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Heh… It will be a very very long time before any of these companies see a thin dime of that tariff money back…if ever.

    • athatet@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2 months

      No no. They will give the money back to the corps. The people who spent that money won’t see it.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      The point might be injunctions and judicial record, they might know they’re not getting their money back.