The Customer Appreciation Sale starts this weekend after Nintendo recouped $300 million in tariff refunds.
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Rather than giving any of the tariff refunds it obtained from the US government back to players,
"The Customer Appreciation Sale is our way of saying thank you to Nintendo players for their continued support and is made possible in part by tariff-related refunds,"
The sale will run across the eShop, Nintendo Store and retailers. It includes 30 percent discounts on dozens of digital games and bundles, as well as DLC, physical games, Amiibo, accessories and other merch. The company in an attempt to claw back tariff payments after the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration's global levies were illegal.
Like , Nintendo is that Nintendo filed in July, the company argued it's not legally required to give those refunds back to consumers, claiming the plaintiffs "received exactly what they bargained and paid for" when they bought its products following tariff-induced price increases. Framing the sale as a thank you to players — whose money Nintendo wants to get its hands on during said event — while touting the tariff refunds as a reason for making the discounts possible is deeply gross. Panic, on the other hand, did the right thing by simply