Nintendo says Switch 2 customers aren’t owed tariff refunds

Nintendo is pushing back against a proposed class-action lawsuit from customers who say the company should pass along tariff refunds tied to Switch 2 pricing. The company’s argument is simple: buyers saw the price, agreed to it, and got the products they paid for.

The case, Hoffert et al. v. Nintendo, follows last year’s Switch 2 preorder delay in the U.S. and Canada and later price increases on some Nintendo products after tariff changes. Those tariffs were later ruled illegal, and the U.S. government was ordered to refund companies that paid them.

According to Game File’s report, Nintendo has also sued the U.S. government to recover tariff payments it made. Customers in the class-action suit argue that if Nintendo gets refunded, consumers who paid higher prices should get money back too.

Nintendo disagrees. In the court complaint, the company’s position is that it has no obligation to retroactively adjust completed sales because the tariff litigation changed later. Its filing says customers “received exactly what they bargained and paid for.”

The lawsuit is still playing out, but Nintendo is asking for it to be dismissed. For now, the company’s stance is that any tariff refund it may receive from the government doesn’t automatically create refunds for Switch 2 buyers.