Importing a Nintendo switch

Hey guys! I'm just wondering if anybody knows if bringing a newly unopened Nintendo switch onto a flight in a check-in luggage to a new country would subject it to taxes etc or if the flight would hold it due to its batteries?

reason I'm asking is because I live in Malaysia and it costs like 450 USD for the console here, but I have a friend who's flying to the US this week and I'm thinking of asking him to get one for me from there. I'm just worried if it might give him any trouble helping me to "import" it back home?

Thanks for the help!

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