Earlier this year, following Trump’s Tariffs affecting the video games industry, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government. Then, two Nintendo customers filed a class action lawsuit against the company for raising the prices for hardware while seeking compensation for the tariffs. Now, Nintendo has requested the dismissal of the lawsuit, arguing that consumers who purchased tariff-affected products “received exactly what they bargained and paid for.”

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“If a consumer did not want to pay the advertised price, they were free to abstain from purchasing the product or seek out competing products,” said lawyers representing Nintendo.

“The common thread among Plaintiffs’ claims is that it is somehow ‘unfair’; that Nintendo has not retroactively adjusted its prices for completed sales in response to the outcome of the tariff litigation. But that is not how commercial transactions work.

“Nintendo or one of its retailers set a price for each product, and consumers decided whether that price was worth paying. Those who bought Nintendo’s products received exactly what they bargained and paid for: a console, game and/or accessory at a price to which both parties agreed.”

They continued: “The money Plaintiffs paid represents the purchase price of the goods they wanted and received; Plaintiffs are not entitled to a rebate simply because of intervening legal developments related to tariffs.”

The filing clarifies that Nintendo didn’t just raise its hardware prices with the full cost of tariffs.

The lawyers noted “Nintendo  did not simply increase each product’s price by the amount of tariffs it paid on that product or impose an across-the-board tariff surcharge. Instead, Nintendo imposed modest and selective price adjustments, and it chose to bear the costs of tariffs on some of its most popular products of 2025, including its flagship console, the Nintendo Switch 2.”