Damn I’m gonna not buy it even harder now
You can’t blame Sony for this
Part of an overall concerning trend, but as someone who decided to stop buying consoles years ago: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Make gaming great again!
This is Republicans and Trump’s doing btw.
There is also the choice if making less money that companies are allowed to make.
A company that is profitable will still be profitable if they make a tiny bit less profit.
But that’s not even seen as an option anymore. The idea that a company should shoulder the cost of anything instead of the consumer is crazy to us.
No no, I’m sure it’s the fault of the trans kids. And the immigrants. I’m sure prices will go down if the US just cracks down harder on these threats to gaming.
edit: do some of you dipshits have literal brain damage? If I have to add /s tags to something like this, it’s proving that we have NO hope for the future ffs
Username checks out.
You’re not wrong.
Here’s how I think it’s going to go down.
- They’ll realize that Sony isn’t a American company.
- They’ll find out it’s a Japanese company
- They’ll blame Chinese-Americans for the increase.
- Republican gestapo intensifies
- Tariffs will continue until Americans aren’t so stupid
Everyone in the world suffers from higher prices.
They’ll find out it’s a Japanese company They’ll blame Chinese-Americans
I love how this is one of those things that sounds like an absurdist joke but it’s actual realistic analysis based on current trends.
It’s Biden fault
Back in my day console prices would go down after being on the market for a few years
Back in my day, we elected scumbags who at least wanted to preserve stability and international trade relations so that at least a balance could be preserved long enough to nudge policy where people broadly wanted it.
Yeah but back then we weren’t winning™
Back in your day needless tarriffs weren’t a thing.
President Reagan decided Friday to impose punitive 100% tariffs on a wide variety of goods produced by Japanese electronic giants in retaliation for Tokyo’s failure to abide by the semiconductor trade agreement between the two nations.
In approving a recommendation Thursday by the Administration’s top economic officials, the White House decided to put the tariffs into effect about April 17, less than two weeks before Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone is scheduled to begin a visit to the United States aimed at easing trade frictions.
The tariffs will be targeted to bring in as much as $300 million and designed to punish such firms as NEC Corp., Hitachi Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Oki Corp. by either pricing some of their goods out of the American market or by forcing them to accept substantial losses on U.S. sales.
So a specific tariff, on specific goods in a specific country, for a specific reason. Really not comparable.
Was that not a measured response to a failure to abide by an established agreement?
Depends on who is telling the story.
Japan / Korea were early instances of US industrial outsourcing. The consequences of the project was an economic boom during late 70s/early 80s in both countries, such that American politicians feared Japan and Korea would return to the world stage as independent regional powers. Reagan’s tariffs, the subsequent opening of Japanese import markets, and the further industrial outsourcing to China, the Philippines, and the rest of the South Pacific labor markets effectively clipped the wings of the Japanese/Korean wage laborer.
You could argue this was part of the “agreement” between Eastern Zaibatsu executives and Western investment banks. But I’d hardly call it a “measured response”. I certainly wouldn’t call it a policy that served the best interests of either Eastern or Western wage labor.
Five years… in the OG days we’d be prepping for the next generation about now.
Then things got weird around the 2008 financial crash. :(
(US dates)
Atari 2600 - 1977
Atari 5200 - 1982
Atari 7800 - 1986
Atari Jaguar - 1993NES - 1985
SNES - 1990
N64 - 1996
Gamecube - 2001
Wii - 2006
Wii U - 2012
Switch - 2017
Switch 2 - 2025Sega Master System - 1986
Genesis - 1989
Sega CD - 1992
32X - 1994
Saturn - 1995
Dreamcast - 1999NEC Turbo Grafx 16 / CD - 1989
NEC Turbo Duo - 1993Playstation - 1995
PS2 - 2000
PS3 - 2006
PS4 - 2013
PS4 Pro - 2016
PS5 - 2020
PS5 Pro - 2024Xbox - 2001
Xbox 360 - 2005
Xbox One - 2013
Xbox One X - 2017
Xbox Series X - 2020I feel like part of it was that the console revisions past 2008 aren’t as big of a deal as they were before. You also had publishers start producing games for multiple generations of consoles at the same time.
Games took way longer to make in the 7th gen and later, so 5 years for a console generation didn’t cut it anymore.
I’ve owned 15 of the consoles listed. Doesn’t seem like I’ve been through that many of them!
24 for me and I still own most of them.
Sega even had an earlier console in 1983 called the SG-1000. It was only released in Japan though.
Node shrinks are not as impactful as they use to be, in that area at least.
de minimus tariff exemption (imported goods valued at under $800) ends at the end of the month because trump said so a few days ago
this is why
This does not only affect playstation. Anyone who doesnt have a stockpile of inventory already imported are gonna be affected very soon.
Norwegian postal service will not send packages with less than $800 dollars (except for private packages). Many businesses will not send anything to the US in the coming months.
jokes on you if you thought this was about this term, it’s about his first term.
The COVID deaths statistic gave it away. Nobody cares about that any more.
Plus the number is quite a lot bigger now.
The ports must be bracing for chaos.
Unfortunately Christmas is gonna be rough time for a lot of Americans this year thanks to the trump tax
Americans need to boycott Christmas. Make memories and handmade presents instead of sending money at billionaires
That’s their fault for voting for Trump or not voting at all
Tens of millions of us voted against it and did our best to convince those around us.
On the whole, we deserve what we’re getting. We asked for it. I just hope the rest of the world doesn’t forget that so many of us tried.
Literal millions of us (myself included) voted “correctly” for Harris. Blue no matter who. We did our part for your petty ass purity test and we’re still getting fucked.
Must be nice to live in a world where people only experience the results of who they voted for.
Dude, I’m from the US. I know. But the fact of the matter is that there’s shittons of poor people who voted for Trump, and they’re the ones most at risk. And they’re the ones I’m calling out
But the shouty man on TV said tariffs were good! Why vibeo janes cost more?
Trump: tariffs ARE good. For budget, not for you, though…
Bad for the budget too, because a shrinking economy shrinks tax revenues from other sources.
Good for the sovereign wealth black hole of money though! Wherever that ends up getting spent, likely on gold plating the jumbo plane bribe he accepted.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Reduce comes first for a reason.
You do not need a PS5. You don’t need a new console - if you need a console at all.
IN MY DAY WE HAD A STICK AND A HOOP AND WE WERE HAPPY
“When I joined the Corps, we didn’t have any fancy-shmancy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole platoon - and we had to share the rock!”
— Sgt Johnson, Halo 2
I’m my day that wasn’t far from the truth. We don’t need quality games machines but they’re a very nice luxury.
Quality is exactly what we need in games machines.
Not meaningless iteration and oppressive corporate greed. The 2600 was a quality machine - you can still find working VCS consoles in the wild - and when they fail, it’s usually something that can be fixed by the owner of the console. It doesn’t die because software tells it to die, or because of a known manufacturing fault where a simple fix was ignored because it wouldn’t have been profitable. The same can (mostly) be said of NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, SNES, and even TG16/PC Engine.
Beyond that, I expect that 32-bit machines and forward should still work, even if disk rot is affecting the ones that weren’t cartridge based.
Getting into that case also gets into pedagogical theory, because giving kids primarily analog entertainment compared to digital seems to be beneficial. I was talking about those of us adults who are already doomed. We have computers. We already have machines. We don’t need the new one.
“You don’t need a new PS4-game player. Your PS4 is fine enough as-is!”
A cheap SSD upgradeand a PS4 plays PS4 games the same way a PS5 does.
I mean, there’s that too.
A okay gaming PC withis not cheap. To some people, console is the only way
Just buy used PS5.
My PC is not a “gaming” PC. I play games on it. I have access to a nearly 50-year library of games. Just because I don’t have the newest and shiniest doesn’t mean I don’t have tons of fun games available. And I said ‘if you need a console at all’. If you are determined to play video games and you don’t want them on a PC, phone, or tablet, then fine. There are thrift stores, there’s eBay (though that’s loaded with scalpers and scum even more than the thrift grifters), there are many ways to buy a used console. But I also stand by the thought that if what you have is working and being fun, keep using it. If the corporations have made it not fun, either go to older hardware they can’t do that to, or get homebrew set up.
Don’t just keep it on a shelf “in case”. Don’t store it. And for the love of anything good, don’t just discard it.
Reduce. If you think you’ve reduced “enough”, find something else to reduce.
What is wrong with ps4 or ps3? Are the games not good because they are aged?
I do most of my gaming on ps1 and wii, and a bit on PC.
As demand increases so will their price too.
Then decrease the demand by reducing what you buy and the lifespan you demand of the hardware and software.
Well, that’s tariffs for you. Completely expected, though a ~10% bump on the PS5 doesn’t adjust for all the tariff increase IIRC.
Pretty sure this is due to the dollar weakening by 10%.
Both? Probably both.
Positive feedback from Trump trying to fix an economy he is beyond understanding.
That’s not a particularly realistic explanation
The USD index has weakened by 10% as a whole, but not relative to the JPY. It has held roughly steady against the yen for the past couple years, before which the yen had weakened significantly. USD to JPY is extremely high right now, compared to where it has been over the past 15 years
Pretty sure the dollar weakened by 10% over it being harder to trade with the US.
*capitalism for you.
the tariffs are part of the overall system which is designed to exploit folks a few rich owners can profit.
Then why did Sony also increase pricing in several other countries?
Damn shame, Sony. I’m lowering my buy price by $50.
Are you under the impression this is Sony trying to gouge you? It’s your idiot president and your trash country
Then why did so many other countries get an increase first?
Other countries got their price increase months ago. Ours was probably delayed so that they could tell how bad the damages of our idiot president would be.
You’re right. I can’t forget to factor him in.
It’s $100 less now. I’m taking a tariff on it. Final offer.
Damn shame, Trump. I’m lowering my buy tax by $5.
And Nintendo over here raising console prices for shit released in 2017 I guess only thing in common was Trump.
I’m gonna wait until 11:59 to order my PS5 and then list it tomorrow as a “limited edition pre-increase model” for $150 more. Then Sony will hire me as their CEO.
Ok. More reasons not to get one.
Pretty much all of tech will see this price bump because of Trump
Yup. Still more reasons to not buy anything.
