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[–] 111 points 8 months ago (7 children)

None of that is going to customers who overpaid, is it?

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  • [–] 64 points 8 months ago

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

    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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  • [–] 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)
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    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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    I hope they both lose.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

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

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

    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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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    [DO NOT DELETE FOOTER BELOW]

    Huh?

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

    Oh trump. What have you wrought?

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

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

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    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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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    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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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I cant imagine how powerful a corporation can be if they feel comfortable suing the fucking governemtnt

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

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

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

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