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Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have written a joint letter to oppose proposed tariffs from the Trump administration.
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That is so offensive to Goombas, they didn't do anything to deserve this comparison.
I have the utmost confidence that this will be read, comprehended, and acted upon! Who's with me!
Already a thread, but I do like your title better, OP:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ni...s-to-fight-against-us-tarrif-on-china.125670/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ni...s-to-fight-against-us-tarrif-on-china.125670/
They'll definitely eat the 25% if their current prices are based on consumer price acceptance.
Highly unlikely.
In my industry (which touches 2 others directly) we have already had a few large price increases with previous tariffs. They are not consumer items but are critical in day to day business operations. Not going to go into a specific number but an example would be we eat 30% and remaining 70% is passed on for increase.
Very likely the end consumer would see 4-8% increase (At max around 15ish% but that would be wild). That does not mean they mark it up directly in the console though. The big three could easily push these price increases into other areas such as Online play (ex.. PS+) or raise video game prices slightly (Ex. $65 MSRP instead of $60 MSRP in US). Then when the Tariffs are removed/lowered if consumers as a whole handle these slight increases to pay for online or standard video game they could remain like that forever.
Edit: Tariffs are most likely not a 1:1 increase for Company/Consumer, most of the items pass through a secondary,third source (Your average retail store) so Sony might take a slight hit, Walmart takes a slight hit and then finally consumer takes slight hit for example). Overall though at the end of the day its bad for the consumer
The peak of all this stupidity is that the production of these consoles will just move to factories in other countries owned by the same Chinese corporations Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are already doing business with.
I'm pretty 100% sure that our price is base from the US.... so we will also get that increase.
Not for next gen, they'll ride it out instead. It will also likely adjust price cuts for the current gen stuff and raise the price of things coming out. So if the Switch was going to see a price cut, with the Pro taking over as the more expensive model- they may instead not cut the price of the Switch and start with a higher price of the Pro to offset all of this. While other regions may see the price cuts.
This will likely also affect what games come out here physically and push towards the digital marketplace. I've no doubt that physical copies will see that price increase, while they start pushing everyone to a digital future and keep prices lower there.
Hell yeah. It will have no impact but it might at least make the gaming populace aware something is gong on
Also: Nintendo, Sony, and MS just made more work for the poor bastard whose job it is to tape back together all the papers Trump rips up (not joking, look it up)
Also: Nintendo, Sony, and MS just made more work for the poor bastard whose job it is to tape back together all the papers Trump rips up (not joking, look it up)
We already have a thread for this topic here: https://www.resetera.com/threads/ni...s-to-fight-against-us-tarrif-on-china.125670/
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