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Nintendo [of America] sues the US government over tariffs — Japanese videogame giant seeks 200 billion refund with interest (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 72 points 8 months ago (12 children)

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

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The Pokémon Company owns the other third

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    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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