Sony and Microsoft do their best Nintendo impression, say customers aren't entitled to tariff refunds because they chose to pay inflated prices and got "exactly" what they "paid for"

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Both Sony and Microsoft have now followed in Nintendo's footsteps by stating that they aren't obligated to pass on their U.S. tariff refunds to customers who paid inflated prices for goods like the PS5 and Xbox Series X.

Back in July, Nintendo requested a dismissal for a proposed class action lawsuit which had alleged that "Nintendo stands to recover the same tariff payments twice – once from consumers through higher prices and again from the federal government through tariff refunds," and therefore sought "restitution of those tariff overcharges, together with appropriate declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief."