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Due to new tariffs, many more physical game discs may "simply not get made"
Analysts also warn that tariffs could increase prices for game software and hardware.
A 25 percent tax on discs shipped in from Mexico could lead to "a sharp downtick in the number of disc-based games that get released physically in the US," Circana analyst Mat Piscatella said on social media. Analyst David Gibson noted last month that roughly half of Nintendo Switch consoles are currently produced outside of China, a shift that began during a previous trade war threat in 2019. "Tariffs on video game devices and related products would negatively impact hundreds of millions of Americans and would harm the industry’s significant contributions to the US economy.
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