Wait what happened? What did I miss I have been traveling all day?A global killer disease will do that to the world's economy. It totally sucks.
Yeah ain't no way. SorryHeisenbergFX4 but it aren't happening now LOL!
PREACH! Say it again for the people in the back. They don't understand.
She's been under the knife a lot since I last saw her it seems.
Sure, collectively. Working at a big corp myself, there's no malice or greed when seemingly evil decisions are being made. Just tons of different department that have no idea what they're doing and can't cooperate with each other properly to save their lives. And we're very profitable too, so profitable you'd think there was a masterplan in motion. But there isn't.
And useless bastard middle management desperate to prove their worth.
Fuck don't make me wade through 10 pages of people who love record profits and huge sales numbers beating each other off to this price increase like its a good thingWe wonder what happened to Katie Price.
I mean, technically I agree with you that greed is involved, but literally every publicly owned company operates on this metric. Almost none of them are going to eat it, so you've got to attribute it instead to the system we are all forced to operate within
The desease was bad enough but some of the decisions made totally contributed for the economy collapse.. it didnt needed to be this bad. But this is an old discussion... not much point in having it again ...A global killer disease will do that to the world's economy. It totally sucks.
Yeah ain't no way. Sorry
PREACH! Say it again for the people in the back. They don't understand.
If tariffs disappeared next week, would the prices come back down?
It has nothing to do with the tariffs no matter what they might say. Europe got a price increase a few months back.
@grok is this true?
I don't think it's that simple. It's not like a CEO knows everything and just gives orders. He's given numbers by different departments and spends several hours in meetings being consulted about things he doesn't know or needs to take into account. He just has the final word, but the decision is shaped by everyone involved.
My point is exactly this .. tariffs are probably not the "entire" story ... so lets blame tariffs and completely absolve company greed ? ... dosent work for me sorry.
Also tarrifs, sharing the joy
I'm no expert in economics, but my understanding is that instead of increasing a price severely to a single (important) region, companies tend to spread the increase out worldwide so we all suffer. Whether that was really the reason for the previous increase I don't know, but I really don't think increasing hardware prices at this point in the generation comes without an important reason as it'll come back to bite them later as I've said before.
I think they're getting pretty close to the limit if they're not there already.
It's almost like there was a global event 5 years ago that caused massive worldwide supply line issues and inflation.
Didn't the PS5 go up in price like 3 or 4 months ago in many other regions of the world except the US?
You're right, but considering just two months ago we were told that the PS5 is more profitable than all of Sony's other consoles combined, I have doubts that the tariffs will dent their profits that hard.
www.newsweek.com
the amount of corpo dick sucking you and others do is astoundingHome Depot is raising prices
The home improvement retailer said it would be implementing "modest" price increases for imported goods due to "higher" tariffs.
Oh Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo greedy! Bad company! *smacks back on hand*
What else was going on in the world in 2022?................Hmmmm............if only any of us could remember of a world-wide shortage of electronic components. It's almost like there was some global event that happened to literally kills 1,000s of people everyday or something.
Yeah, I think we're saying the same thing. The CEO has the final say, after information and advice has been collectively gathered. In this case, it could very well be that Totoki did not directly say "increase the price to X amount" but he merely said "find a way not to lose profits next quarter" and all the departments collaborated and came with this price increase suggestion which he approved. Had they come up with a different suggestions, we might be looking at a different outcome right now. I think it's always a group effort even if a single person has the final say, he couldn't have come up with everything himself.
The bellends just love to platform war.
Yeah ain't no way. Sorry
When Sony bragged about record profits no less
Listen, if you want to have common sense, this thread is not for you. Trumps a retard, corporations are greedy, and people still think it was actually covid that killed a lot of people. That is what I have learned from this thread, oh and somehow fake tits got bigger.
There was a price rise in April but only to the digital edition which accounts for a small proportion of PS5s sold, 20% if I remember correctly. The economically illiterate saw this as Sony making foreigners pay for Trumps tarrifs. The more likely answer is that it was planned earlier due to digital attach rates not justifying the discount over the disc version.
Really, bragging about this? Everyone knew this was happening. Especially right after both Xbox and Switch got price increases for the same reason.O predicted price increase for Pro few months ago
