I have seen this mentioned in comments elsewhere but I haven't seen anyone make an actual post about it. I thought it was odd when I didn't get charged any tax on my purchase yesterday, so I have been checking to see if others noticed.
Through reading various comments over the past 24 hours, I feel confident the mistake was listing the controller as a digital good/software download. Everyone who says they weren't charged taxes lives in states where digital games aren't taxed like California, Arkansas (which taxes some digital goods, but not games), and Missouri.
Meanwhile, I've confirmed that people in states like Georgia and Pennsylvania were charged tax, which makes sense because those states tax digital downloads just like physical hardware. Originally I was confused by someone in Georgia paying tax, but through some research I found out that Georgia updated their laws in 2024 to tax digital game purchases.
This seems like a pre