Nintendo's Customer Appreciation Sale goes live in the US, made possible by tariff-related refunds

SecureBoot · 2026-09-13T13:57:48+0100

I think it does open an interesting a discussion about how people believe they should be compensated for any tariff refunds. How do you determine who gets how much of the refund? How much does the company keep? It's not like they didn't absorb any additional cost

Clydefrosch · 2026-09-13T14:22:04+0100

if you're angry about this, direct your anger at the pedophile who caused all of this to steal from you twice in the first place.

Skv0ra · 2026-09-13T14:38:25+0100

So, sale thanks to most of newer Swatch 2 owners and naturally ONLY on their first party stuff? They can keep it unless its for physicals too.

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SecureBoot said:
I think it does open an interesting a discussion about how people believe they should be compensated for any tariff refunds. How do you determine who gets how much of the refund? How much does the company keep? It's not like they didn't absorb any additional cost

Simple - those who are willing to simp away their money, get a marginal incentive to do so!

GenoCL · 2026-09-13T14:40:23+0100

While 30% off is laughable, at least it makes enough of a difference in price to Galaxy 2 to actually make me get it.
Nintendo has and will always be allergic to discounts tho, calling it "Customer Appreciation" almost feels demeaning. Nintendo is known for actively IGNORING its customers and they've admitted it.

You know what's fun? This is the first time in almost 5 years that The World Ends With You: Final Remix is finally on sale and IT'S STILL MORE EXPENSIVE than Super Mario Galaxy 2. You know, the Switch port of a phone port of a Nintendo DS game is somehow more expensive than a Wii game's port.

Also, the Xenoblade games and their DLC are also on sale.

Skv0ra · 2026-09-13T14:41:07+0100

Clydefrosch said:
if you're angry about this, direct your anger at the pedophile who caused all of this to steal from you twice in the first place.

It did shift sales away from Bandai and towards Hasbro for a while, at least for those that typically shop both, so tariffs did what they intended to. The real problem was and is that US barely supplies much of anything when it comes to entertainment or much of manufacturing nowadays.

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GenoCL said:
You know what's fun? This is the first time in almost 5 years that The World Ends With You: Final Remix is finally on sale and IT'S STILL MORE EXPENSIVE than Super Mario Galaxy 2. You know, the Switch port of a phone port of a Nintendo DS game is somehow more expensive than a Wii game's port.

Welcome to Japanomics - you will abide the msrp and buy it anyway if you truly want it, or you won't, but NO discount ever!

Technicmaster0 · 2026-09-13T16:28:56+0100

SecureBoot said:
I think it does open an interesting a discussion about how people believe they should be compensated for any tariff refunds. How do you determine who gets how much of the refund? How much does the company keep? It's not like they didn't absorb any additional cost

For nintendo, that would be pretty easy if they wanted to do an actual compensation. They know the hardware you bought, the digital games you bought and thanks to the nintendo points redemption option the physical games you bought. They could give you a certain percentage of nintendo points per dollar spent

Scarlet · 2026-09-13T17:11:33+0100

Technicmaster0 said:
For nintendo, that would be pretty easy if they wanted to do an actual compensation. They know the hardware you bought, the digital games you bought and thanks to the nintendo points redemption option the physical games you bought. They could give you a certain percentage of nintendo points per dollar spent

Gold Points don't exist any more do they? Regardless they would still be able to figure something out for digital purchases if they wanted to. If it were spread the refund amount across every user I do wonder how little that would be in the end though.

Exnor · 2026-09-13T17:26:47+0100

What a joke. This is like saying "let them eat cake".

And the prices are still higher than the used games market.

Ambers_Crimson_8K · 2026-09-13T17:31:05+0100

Some sites messed up last night and glitched the dlc prices for the full games...ended up getting mario kart deluxe for $17.

A-Hacked-Soul · 2026-09-13T17:46:56+0100

This is stupid, it is the same Switch 1 sales they have been having for the last few years. There is. Irving special about it and they still have not brought back down the price of the Switch 2 accessories they raised cause of said tariffs.

The Catboy · 2026-09-13T17:59:16+0100

This just feels like corporate voter manipulation, ngl
It reminds of the time when Walmart in 2017 credited Trump for them raising wages, wages they were already plan in on raising before the Trump presidency

codezer0 · 2026-09-13T18:04:22+0100

This doesn't even begin to answer the literal decades of refusing to drop the prices on old releases.

Nintendo has gotten away with too much for this to even begin to count in their favor.

DJPlace · 2026-09-13T18:11:47+0100

not a whole lot of saving's IMO it's just normal nintendo sale has always.

SecureBoot · 2026-09-13T18:19:05+0100

Technicmaster0 said:
For nintendo, that would be pretty easy if they wanted to do an actual compensation. They know the hardware you bought, the digital games you bought and thanks to the nintendo points redemption option the physical games you bought. They could give you a certain percentage of nintendo points per dollar spent

They know all of that-
If you bought directly from them.
I buy my hardware at Best buy and games at Walmart. Would it be fair if only the people who bought direct from Nintendo got a refund?

Maximumbeans · 2026-09-13T18:36:51+0100

Customer(‘s money) appreciation sale

ZeroT21 · 2026-09-13T18:39:02+0100

Yay...if only I were a fanboy

retrospect · 2026-09-13T18:40:02+0100

I'm guessing my Nintendo account is region-locked to the UK and I can't get in on this, even if I'm in the US?

Sir Tortoise · 2026-09-13T18:53:03+0100

Please understand the Nintendo Ninjas are not forcing me to say this, but...really, how would direct tariff refunds even work?

I've not heard of any company actually passing them back to individual customers, because there is no practical way to do so. Is Nintendo supposed to ask millions of people for their bank details and recent purchase history? Across multiple countries?
That sounds like a legal and logistical nightmare.

Dropping prices back down would be the best move, I think...but lol, they're never going to do that. So a temporary drop in price is at least something, even if it is an entirely cynical move.

RetroNerdGamer · 2026-09-13T18:59:36+0100

Ya know, at least put the games $20 bucks a pop and make it like the Nintendo selects back in the day even if it's fer a week or two. These're older games.

At least it counts toward the physical games too, I gotta give 'em that. But I already own most of these, except the Mario Galaxy 1+2 collection and Luigi's Mansion 2 HD.

I'd like to get one of those but... hm. I wish it could be a lil more discounted.

Edit: I should mention I already have 3D All Stars, so Galaxy collection is a bit eh. Maybe I'll go fer Luigi's Mansion 2.

SeltzerMist · 2026-09-13T19:01:20+0100

Sir Tortoise said:
Please understand the Nintendo Ninjas are not forcing me to say this, but...really, how would direct tariff refunds even work?

I've not heard of any company actually passing them back to individual customers, because there is no practical way to do so. Is Nintendo supposed to ask millions of people for their bank details and recent purchase history? Across multiple countries?
That sounds like a legal and logistical nightmare.

Dropping prices back down would be the best move, I think...but lol, they're never going to do that. So a temporary drop in price is at least something, even if it is an entirely cynical move.

This is the most logical stance. Trying to give consumers direct rebates or reimbursement sounds like a logistics nightmare.

And maybe a price reduction or cancellation of their $50 price increase would have been on the table if not for the components shortages, the Trump Iran conflict, and another round of Trump tarrifs on the horizon.

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