I wish people would just not buy products that shit on their rights as consumer.
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
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Build it (and market it) and they will buy it. They only need 2% of the population to buy it to be the best selling peice of shit on the market
I find it hard to believe that it's somehow cheaper for them to mass produce two different models of Switch 2 for different regions than to just bite the bullet and make battery replacements easier for everyone.
I mean, even Apple chose to give up the lightning port across all their phones after the EU required it, and they had a much bigger incentive to not change in other regions since they made a good deal of money via lightning adapter licensing/certification.
Hopefully this will eventually trickle over to international models, unless Nintendo decides to burn even more consumer good will than they already have.
European models will be smuggled globally.
If youโre in the USโฆ wait till you find out what a tariff is. Youโll get a letter saying the switch you paid $450 for can be picked up for an additional $300 bucks. TACO Tax.
Your choice is to pay $750 for a Switch2 OR abandon your $450 and your order will be destroyed.
Smuggling implies not paying taxes or tariffs on those goods.
Huh sounds like his/her first time
Smuggling implies youโre already paying a tariff, just not a government sanctioned one. Like drugs, youโre not getting Colombian prices on that Switch2. Youโre paying for every border, agent, and politician along the way. Hiding lithium batteries in mass is almost as impossible as hiding precursor in air soft rounds. It just doesnโt happen anymore.
Smuggling implies youโre already paying a tariff, just not a government sanctioned one. Like drugs, youโre not getting Colombian prices on that Switch2. Youโre paying for every border, agent, and politician along the way.
That's called a markup.
Both taxes and tarrifs are legal definitions.
I think they're simply hoping to get a bit of that revenue stream for themselves.
The first laptop I had had a battery you could easily detach and swap. If it was close to dying it told you to charge the computer or swap the battery
That was standard for decades.
Most phones, too.
I had an Apple laptop with a removable battery (an iBook G4). It even had a button and LEDs on the battery to show the level of charge, like tool batteries have nowadays. And not only was the RAM upgradable, it could be done toollessly because the keyboard could be popped off just by undoing a couple of latches.
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