For months, Nintendo, the maker of famed video game series such as Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong, had expected the morning of April 2 to be a celebration.

To much fanfare, the company announced the price and release date for the Switch 2, its new video game console eight years in the making. At an event in New York City, Doug Bowser, Nintendo of America’s president, took the stage as fans cheered the arrival of new games to accompany the console; Mario Kart, Donkey Kong and Kirby among them.

Then, later that same day, President Donald Trump announced tariffs that sent global stock markets reeling and put the Mario party in jeopardy. The new Switch was made in Vietnam, one of the countries on the tariff list.

Two days later, Nintendo said it was delaying preorders for the Switch 2 and possibly raising the price from $450. Just how high was unclear. But on Wednesday, Trump said he was delaying expanded tariffs on Vietnam and many other countries for 90 days. Nintendo has yet to say how the delay will affect the Switch 2’s price.

Nintendo’s whipsaw experience shows the broader chaos Trump’s on-and-off tariffs have caused for technology manufacturers, and the uncertainty of what the market will look like for consumer technology in the coming months.

In a statement before Trump delayed his expanded tariffs on countries other than China, Nintendo said it still planned to release the Switch 2 in June, but it did not set a date for when it would reopen preorders or announce a new price.

Gamers had already taken to social media sites like X and Reddit by the thousands to complain. While it’s a common practice in the industry for gamers to blame the high cost of consoles and games on corporate greed, they turned instead to blaming Trump.

Jake Steinberg, a gamer and a writer from Philadelphia, visited New York last week to play a demo of the Switch 2. Now he’s unsure how much added cost he would be willing to take on.

“There’s an extreme amount of irony, because people always said this refrain, ‘Keep politics out of games,’” Steinberg said. “Well, here they are.”

For years, Nintendo manufactured its gaming consoles in China. But it moved most of its production to Vietnam in 2019, during Trump’s first term, to sidestep tariffs and the threat of a trade war between China and the United States.

Those maneuvers appeared to be for nothing as Trump’s plans announced last week threatened hefty new tariffs on goods from Vietnam (46%), Japan (24%), Malaysia (24%) and Cambodia (49%), leaving manufacturers in the region with few options.

But because of the delay announced Wednesday, Nintendo may be one of the lucky ones. A majority of consumer electronics, including smartphones and other gaming consoles, are still made in China. And they are expected to be subject to 145% tariffs — bigger than just a few days ago. Products made in Vietnam, like most countries, are still being hit with a 10% tariff.

The delay gives Nintendo 90 days to increase production and stock up on inventory in the United States, said Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities. But for other tech companies such as Apple, which typically doesn’t start producing new iPhones until months before the release date, that may not be an option.

Nintendo could still end up playing the delicate game of deciding how much it can raise the price without turning away gamers — many of whom already felt $450 was steep enough — or holding out hope that it won’t in the end be hit by the expanded tariffs.

For gaming companies such as Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, selling consoles is only one aspect of their business: If customers choose not to buy a new console, they also won’t be able to purchase the software for the games themselves, which sell at higher margins than hardware.