Trump’s Proposed Tariffs Will Hit Gamers Hard (Gizmodo) *UPDATE* They’re here

[88m3]

I'm trying to get into gaming


stop gatekeeping

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Again,

Can someone explain why Trump would put tariffs on a Japanese product made in Japan??

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Again,

Can someone explain why Trump would put tariffs on a Japanese product made in Japan??

all these consoles get their parts from china

 

[88m3]

all these consoles get their parts from china

There's nothing stopping Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and etc from getting their parts from Russia and North Korea.

 

[Return of the Jedi]

Nice

The original is the last Xbox I owned so I'm trying to create a baseline for expectations. Do you know does the S stack up to the X? How would an S stack up to a PS5?

If anyone else knows lmk


Would be cool if I can flip it for 2k in 4 months too

It's the least good option of the three. The PS5 is running away with this generation.

If you're just playing games casually, like Fortnite, COD, Madden, 2K, etc. and you're not obsessed with native 4K resolution or 60 FPS performance, the Xbox Series S is fine.

 

[Return of the Jedi]

There's nothing stopping Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and etc from getting their parts from Russia and North Korea.

None of these companies get any of their parts from Russia and North Korea. Neither country are anywhere near this country and are sanctioned out the ass anyways.

All 3 of the console manufacturers have a huge portion of their supply line in China. Nintendo has diversified out a bit to Vietnam, but nobody can fully pull out of Beijing's gravitational pull

 

[Kurt off them percs]

The government the people vote for, is the government the people shall receive.

I'm here for it...

 

[daze23]

I'm trying to get into gaming


stop gatekeeping

you're interrogating from the wrong perspective

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions

The import taxes could raise prices on PS5 Pros and Switch 2s by more than $100

kotaku.com

Console Sale could fall below early 2000s Levels (Worst Case Scenario)

But higher hardware costs are just the start of how tariffs could reshape gaming in the U.S. Joost Van Dreunen, a lecturer at the NYU Stern School of Business, believes the most draconian tariffs would dramatically reshape the console landscape in the years ahead. "The data indicate that tariffs would not just affect sales volumes but could permanently alter the console industry's role in U.S. gaming culture," he wrote in a recent edition of his Super Joost Playlist newsletter. In the worst-case scenario, he estimates that total console sales in the U.S. would fall below early 2000s levels "despite two decades of market expansion and a substantially larger gaming population."

Potential Rise in both Digital & Physical Prices

One likely outcome of this scenario, Van Dreunen speculates, is that players in the U.S. start moving toward other ways of accessing games. "These tariffs could fast-track the industry's shift toward cloud gaming, streaming services, and transmedia distribution, marking a classic transition from content innovation to distribution innovation in the pendulum cycle," he wrote.

Physical games would also potentially die off even faster as players switch to tariff-exempt digital downloads and cheaper, digital-only versions of the existing PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Or as Mat Piscatella, Executive Director & Video Game Industry Analyst at Circana, recently speculated, companies could actually raise the price of digital games to compensate for the rising MSRPs on physical store shelves.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Welp

https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-to-tariff-chips-made-in-taiwan-targeting-tsmc

President Trump is preparing to place tariffs beyond Chinese assembled electronics to computer chips made in Taiwan, warning the tariffs could reach as high as 100%.

"In particular, in the very near future, we're going to be placing tariffs on foreign production of computer chips, semiconductors and pharmaceuticals to return production of these essential goods to the United States," Trump said in a speech to Republicans on Monday.

"They left us and went to Taiwan," he then said in an apparent reference to how many of the leading US tech companies have been sourcing their processors from Taiwan's TSMC, a top semiconductor manufacturer. TSMC has established a factory in Arizona, but much of its chip production remains in Taiwan, where it's been serving clients including Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm and AMD, among others.

"We want them to come back," Trump said before slamming the US's CHIPS and Science Act, which his predecessor President Biden signed to invest over $52 billion in domestic chip manufacturing.

"And we don't want to give them billions of dollars like this ridiculous program that Biden has given everybody billions of dollars. They already have billions of dollars," Trump said. "They've got nothing but money Joe. They didn't need money. They needed an incentive. And the incentive is gonna be they're not gonna wanna pay a 25, 50 or even a 100 % tax."

Switch 2 gonna cost as much as PS5 Pro

 

[br82186]

Welp

https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-to-tariff-chips-made-in-taiwan-targeting-tsmc

Switch 2 gonna cost as much as PS5 Pro

 

[Methodical]

Welp

https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-to-tariff-chips-made-in-taiwan-targeting-tsmc

Switch 2 gonna cost as much as PS5 Pro

We all tried to tell yall but they didn't listen

 

[winb83]

We all tried to tell yall but they didn't listen

Almost nobody voting for Trump cared about this. He said he was going to do it upfront so people are fine with it.

 

[BlaccSunrise]

The price of the bricc (GPUs) going all the way up.

$3000+ 5090

 

[Wild self]

Welp

https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-to-tariff-chips-made-in-taiwan-targeting-tsmc

Switch 2 gonna cost as much as PS5 Pro

PS5 Pro gonna be $1500