For example, regional pricing is taken into account for the Switch 2 (the Japanese one was priced at ¥49,980 / $310 while the American variant is $450 + tax) but there are caveats, such as requiring a Japanese Nintendo Account and accepting that English isn’t supported. Nowadays game consoles are dual voltage (unlike old consoles from the past).
The answer depends on how much a game console costs in where you live: if it’s expensive (like for Australian Customers: the switch 2 is A$700 but the Japanese one is A$422) and for EU customers: the console is 470€ while the Japanese one is 270€, you get the point. Even though if you were going to import it just to not pay that much: do additional duties apply?
The same applies to the upcoming PS6 (for US customers: it’s NOT $999 alone if you count sales tax, so closer to $1050 or above) while it’s around ¥150,000 / $930 with 10% CT but even if one were to import it, does that alone void sales tax or replaced with a tariff? I mean, which one is viable: importing a console from overseas or buying one domestically?
There’s a catch you got to be aware of: warranty is rescinded when you take hardware out its bound jurisdiction unless you are willing to fork out more money on having it repaired by a technician. Knowing that, should you import it or pay MORE to buy it in your home country, as in it may be $450 for a console plus tax but the warranty is entitled to US consumers.


If you come visit, we have duty free for any electronics above 20k yen or something like that (might be 50k, please check; also they’re stopping this programme in the near future iirc). So you save on the sales tax here. You just can’t open it until you get back to Australia I think. A
lso, since you won’t have warranty anyway, you could consider getting it second hand for a lot cheaper. Any reputable second hand shop will also honour the duty-free shopping programme for foreign tourists.