Won't happen as long as politicians use Apple products. Everything's fine until it hits their pockets.
This.
Indeed.The console war is reaching the highest levels of state power.
The console war is reaching the highest levels of state power.
Trump trying anything possible to let Playstation stay #1 in the EU.
If you are going to screw your citizens with these tariffs, you might at least help your own industry by taxing products competing with your own. There are no European consoles, so I find the whole thing pretty pointless. Specially when Xbox is already selling so bad in Europe.
If Phil really does put Xbox Game Pass on Switch, he will be an early front runner for the Nobel Peace Prize.
If you are going to screw your citizens with these tariffs, you might at least help your own industry by taxing products competing with your own. There are no European consoles, so I find the whole thing pretty pointless. Specially when Xbox is already selling so bad in Europe.
That deal does not include tariff-free gaming products at all.The EU have just signed a significant new trade deal with Japan. There's plenty of tariff-free gaming product to go around for EU citizens.
Pretty sure that Trump would get off on that, economical consequences be damned.
What more so than Trump's administration? I don't think so.
I also associate 'right wing' with belligerency when it comes to foreign policy, so kindly remind me how many military campaigns Japan are involved in right now compared to the US.
Well said and Japan been able to dominate console sales in the EU for the last 30 years. The EU always had it in for Microsoft with various actions over Windows. No doubt Google and Apple will be in the EU sites, to help make up the short fall of the UKs £70 billion. net contributions over a parliamentThat deal does not include tariff-free gaming products at all.
I don't know why people associate trade deals with tariff free all the time.
Cheese and processed pork are tariff free or near tariff free.
Isn't the Xbox brand quite strongly linked with first person and military shooters? The rights favourite genre.I'm a bit unsure of the connection between Xbox and Republican constituencies? Like I get Whisky and Harley-Davidson but Microsoft is centered at more Liberal states. Either way as long as it brings this crap closer to an end.
Yeah, it's ridiculous Xbox's name being mentioned, while other American companies like Apple don't.Why do video games always have to suffer from politics as if they are the weakest shackles in everything from taxes, censors, etc...?
Yeah, it's ridiculous Xbox's name being mentioned, while other American companies like Apple don't.
It does feel like video-games are always the scapegoat.
This is quite an unsubstantiated point of view, to say the least.
This is all shades of wrong. Completely and utterly. Microsoft and their employment policies are way ahead of the others (and IF businesses can be political a way further left than the others in this field). Japan is a very right wing country with a right wing business culture.
You guys are disgusting calling Xbox and Xbox fans for alt righters and trying to associate Xbox with the alt right. It's so easy to tell what you are trying to do and mods should seriously warn or ban you for that.
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Are Xboxes not brought in directly from China?
Or is the issue is that the company is US owned?
(Or maybe the reporter just looked for a list of additional US products and ran with that? Did this list come from an EU document?)
I'd say that if you seriously, even for a minute, thought that it was a serious post, then yes your sarcasm detector has probably never existed in the first place
...ya think?This is quite an unsubstantiated point of view, to say the least.
This is all shades of wrong. Completely and utterly. Microsoft and their employment policies are way ahead of the others (and IF businesses can be political a way further left than the others in this field). Japan is a very right wing country with a right wing business culture.
Yikes. Maybe take a little break from the internet, guys.Ah yes the same far left company that put out a game with a gay conversion subplot in it.
Cinema and music medias are stronger than video games and they have strong defenders and they can't be touched so easily because they are older medias but also more important medias according to some which is not the case. I can guarantee you that people now play video games more than watching movies. Even in cinema, many video games are getting more and more adaptations. Video game domain should really get more respect and stronger defenders these days because it is no longer a toy as it was considered before but really one of the fundamental domains in media and one of the important arts too.
I really hope things will change when in the next Tokyo Olympics, e-sports will be part of the olympic sport games. This will make many people in the world make fun of this and consider this so futile, irrelevant and not worthy and should belong to the ancestral sports but when they realize that some young or normal which look veyr normal and not like famous sport celebirites can win medals for their countries, they will no longer mock up video games and longer consider them just toys or dangerous entertainments.
https://www.reuters.com/sponsored/article/popularity-of-gaming?utm_source=reddit.comThink you're going to need more evidence on that than your own feelings. And don't link me some report that shows me that video games bring in more money cos that's not what's being argued here.
You really think video games are more relevant in the wider public's eyes than movies?
Xbox is conservative right. PC is far right. PlayStation is social democrat left. Nintendo is far left. Stadia is libertarian.
Spotify has filled a lawsuit about the AppStore currently studied by the EU commission.
I agree.You guys are disgusting calling Xbox and Xbox fans for alt righters and trying to associate Xbox with the alt right. It's so easy to tell what you are trying to do and mods should seriously warn or ban you for that.
When the US imposed steel and aluminum tariffs, Brussels imposed punitive duties on motorcycles like Harley-Davidson, whisky and various foods to hit republican constituencies and the Trump voters among farmers.
Now she's targeting video game consoles like Microsoft's Xbox and fitness equipment, helicopters and handbags, casino tables and tobacco, vodka and frozen lobsters.
You guys are disgusting calling Xbox and Xbox fans for alt righters and trying to associate Xbox with the alt right. It's so easy to tell what you are trying to do and mods should seriously warn or ban you for that.
It seems few people actually take a moment to understand what they're reading. The temptation to go into outrage mode is just too strong.This thread is crazy. One poster makes a joke about Xbox being far right and loads of people take it seriously and act like the whole thread is calling Xbox players nazis.
Anyway, reactionary tariffs seem a bit petty but at the same time Trump wins if the EU doesn't respond and that's definitely not good.
https://www.reuters.com/sponsored/article/popularity-of-gaming?utm_source=reddit.com
Looks like a legit source but cant say for sure
/jk
It's hard to tell on here sometimes especially since I've seen similar sentiments stated unironically.
I would love to see that.
Isn't the UK (and maybe Germany and France) like the only place in europe where the current XBOX has a relevant market share? And thanks to Brexit they aren't in the EU anymore, sooo... not gonna hurt the XBOX too much I would say, at least not this generation. Could be really bad for the next XBOX though, because that will probably effect prices.