Interestingly, it's been a month and the Xbox price increases haven't actually been applied in Australia yet. A disc Series X still costs $799 everywhere, not the $849 it's apparently gone up to.
I wonder if that suggests stock isn't moving and for now retailers still have the pre-price increase inventory.
Interestingly, it's been a month and the Xbox price increases haven't actually been applied in Australia yet. A disc Series X still costs $799 everywhere, not the $849 it's apparently gone up to.
I wonder if that suggests stock isn't moving and for now retailers still have the pre-price increase inventory.
Interestingly, it's been a month and the Xbox price increases haven't actually been applied in Australia yet. A disc Series X still costs $799 everywhere, not the $849 it's apparently gone up to.
I wonder if that suggests stock isn't moving and for now retailers still have the pre-price increase inventory.
It's not really happened yet in gaming (using hikes elsewhere to subsidise US prices due to tarrifs). Remember the US got hiked in this xbox increase. The overall increase in prices globally was obvious though since there were counter tarrifs and global trade took a hit overall. Prices are bound to increase as every government tries to take a cut at every trade on top of other costs. Going from globalisation to a trainwreck of tariffs is obviously going to increase costs for everyone. Especially if you need to fight proxy trading with generalised tariffs.
It's not really happened yet in gaming (using hikes elsewhere to subsidise US prices due to tarrifs). Remember the US got hiked in this xbox increase. The overall increase in prices globally was obvious though since there were counter tarrifs and global trade took a hit overall. Prices are bound to increase as every government tries to take a cut at every trade on top of other costs. Going from globalisation to a trainwreck of tariffs is obviously going to increase costs for everyone. Especially if you need to fight proxy trading with generalised tariffs.
Yeah it was obvious that globally prices would increase as each government taxed trade so you're paying more but it wasn't a case of the world paying for US consumer while the US consumer doesn't get hit with the rising costs. It's just a frenzy of individual governments trying to tax more and raising the price of goods/trade. It's a shitshow.
Yeah it was obvious that globally prices would increase as each government taxed trade so you're paying more but it wasn't a case of the world paying for US consumer while the US consumer doesn't get hit with the rising costs. It's just a frenzy of individual governments trying to tax more and raising the price of goods/trade. It's a shitshow.
Depending on the product and rate, prices were going to rise at some point. Just a matter of when. Many companies can't even pass the price increase to stores who then pass it to consumers as many stores have price increase policies that may be 90 days lead time. And many don't give a shit if trump passes a new tariff tomorrow blindsiding everyone.
Also, the cost increase of a product is going to be muddied and many products have components from different countries which may or may not have a tariff.
But most people don't know this so they just assume if trump says let's say 30% it means everything goes up 30%. When in reality may be only a portion of parts is subject to 30% but the rest is 0%. Maybe the real blended rates is 12%. But companies and stores might as well just say 30% and both pocket more money off people as they don't know any better.