Nintendo has asked a US court to dismiss a class-action lawsuit brought by customers who argued they were owed refunds after the company raised hardware prices in response to Trump-era tariffs. The case follows Nintendo's own lawsuit against the US government in March, seeking repayment with interest of tariffs it had already paid, which prompted two customers in April to argue that any refund should be passed on to consumers who had paid the higher prices.

In its filing, Nintendo said it has no legal obligation to refund buyers, arguing that customers "received exactly what they bargained and paid for" and could have chosen not to buy the products or sought alternatives instead. The company noted that, unlike many rivals, it made only "modest and selective" price adjustments and absorbed tariff costs on popular items including the Switch 2 console, whose $449.99 launch price was unaffected. It remains for the courts to decide whether the lawsuit proceeds, and the dispute comes as Nintendo prepares to raise the Switch 2's price by $50 from 1 September, partly due to a wider computer component shortage that has also pushed up PlayStation and Xbox prices.