Well obviously. You can't price a tariff off a price of something that hasn't sold. You would price a tariff off the cost paid to carry the product, or build the product. The money going to the government from the tariff charge would have already been paid by the time the product was sold through retail. You can't assess tariffs from a product sold at a Walmart based on the price it sold at off the receipt. Then you would be basing the tariff off the retail margin, which is preposterous and would be hopelessly impractical and impossible to manage. This shouldn't be a difficult thing for anyone to grasp.
I have some hope in what you're saying, but stockpiles eventually run out.
Microsoft already loses money on Series X. Sony likely fluctuates between small profit or loss too.
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Sony and Xbox in particular in North America have been eating the increases in build costs, etc ever since the pandemic, increased expense of parts, labor, freight, etc for years now. Spencer has been saying for 3-4 years now they can't hold pricing at pre-pandemic levels indefinitely. The looming tariffs are certainly what broke the camel's back. When Sony did their PS5 price increase related to pandemic cost increases a few years ago, they notably did not raise prices in North America. With not only Xbox but now even Nintendo doing so, (again…tariffs), knowing how much Sony corporate loves to wring profit out of PS, they absolutely will follow suit.
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Xbox games in and of themselves don't really sell anymore anyway, this is just a bummer for collectors more than anything. Game Pass has trained what I assume is a large portion of Xbox players not to purchase to own individual software. But certainly all the games Xbox sells on PC, PS and Nintendo will reap a lot more money for them.
shit, i might just collecting some bottle caps RN
No. Sony likes their margins.
The tariff isn't based off the retail price. Obviously. How could that possibly work, or even make sense. You'd be paying the government a duty partially based off of the retail sales margin, which is unfathomable.
That was in response to people trying to calculate tarrif percents on retail prices.
Many on GAF thinks these tariffs are a great thing so..........
Right. Sony certainly won't be lowering any prices. This just gives them a lot of cover to raise prices as well without taking any of the negative press.
Most likely this is just to soften the blow of them confirming that their first party games are moving to the $79.99 price point.
Yeah, a lot of the time I use the thumbs up to mean "spot on!"
Won't sell many of them at that price either lol, Xbox gamers mostly use game pass don't they!.
These game prices will also go up on other storefronts (Steam, PlayStation) where Game Pass doesn't exist.
Makes no sense to raise one and not the other, people would just import the cheaper ones when Nintendo already lifted the bar.
