Trump’s Proposed Tariffs Will Hit Gamers Hard (40% raise e.g. $1000 PS5 Pro)

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Not sure how his tariff imports will work since i dont follow politics, but if it's anything like in South America gamers who voted for him will regret it.

There's no country in latin america that has the same leverage in threatening tariffs as the US, AFAIK.
 

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Hoping to buy dustborne and Dragons Age veilguard soon, hope they don't put Tarrifs on those.
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So the right wing grifters who have spent the last two years complaining about Western "woke" games and $70 pricetags have now voted for all of their Eastern Games to be raised to $90

Lmaoo
 
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So the right wing grifters who have spent the last two years complaining about Western "woke" games and $70 pricetags have now voted for all of their Eastern Games to be raised to $90

Lmaoo
You sound salty.

Prices aren't going up, they're going down.
 

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Surely this thread will turn out great.
Politics is not allowed but it is when I agree with it. Either drop the politics or all all politics. The halfway house is a crock of shit.

I'm actually shocked how many people don't understand how taxes work at all, or the reasoning behind them.

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I doubt you even understand how a tariff works

Everyone knows how tariffs work, except for the anti-Trump crowd who think they somehow found some big gotcha they can throw at people who voted for him, mostly because they have no idea how, why and when tariffs are used.


Yes, tariffs are charged on the companies who import the goods. Which then means the imported goods must be sold at a higher price to the end consumer. The part the gotcha crowd fails to understand is these products become less appealing than other competitors.

And other than blocking trade altogether, it's the sole tool that a government can use against an external player enters the market with government-subsidized products. Which is the case with Chinese cars.

We're taxing chinese EVs like hell in Europe because the BYD are heavily subsidized by the Chinese government as an attempt to eradicate European car makers. And if the US doesn't do the same, all American car makers will be following suit.


No one thinks tariffs are charged at chinese exporters, despite the likes of David Pakman assuming that's what most people believe.
 

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Politics is not allowed but it is when I agree with it.
Hypocrisy on Icon Era? No way!

This place is the most neutral gaming forum on the net, full of the biggest and smartest minds in the gaming sphere, believe me. I had no clue this place had so many economists as well.
 

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Hypocrisy on Icon Era? No way!

This place is the most neutral gaming forum on the net, full of the biggest and smartest minds in the gaming sphere, believe me. I had no clue this place had so many economists as well.
The funniest thing to hear is the only ones who don't understand tariffs are anti-Trump? That's the same bullshit statement if you plugged in another politician's name. What was posted was genuinely one of those "tell people I'm a fucking idiot without using those words"

It's pathetic wankerish personality politics. My guy is so great because I voted for him. They all fucking suck. As I said before ban all or ban none.
 

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The funniest thing to hear is the only ones who don't understand tariffs are anti-Trump? That's the same bullshit statement if you plugged in another politician's name. What was posted was genuinely one of those "tell people I'm a fucking idiot without using those words"

It's pathetic wankerish personality politics. My guy is so great because I voted for him. They all fucking suck. As I said before ban all or ban none.
Honestly it's best to just read and move on when it comes to threads like this.
 
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Everyone knows how tariffs work, except for the anti-Trump crowd who think they somehow found some big gotcha they can throw at people who voted for him, mostly because they have no idea how, why and when tariffs are used.


Yes, tariffs are charged on the companies who import the goods. Which then means the imported goods must be sold at a higher price to the end consumer. The part the gotcha crowd fails to understand is these products become less appealing than other competitors.

And other than blocking trade altogether, it's the sole tool that a government can use against an external player enters the market with government-subsidized products. Which is the case with Chinese cars.

We're taxing chinese EVs like hell in Europe because the BYD are heavily subsidized by the Chinese government as an attempt to eradicate European car makers. And if the US doesn't do the same, all American car makers will be following suit.


No one thinks tariffs are charged at chinese exporters, despite the likes of David Pakman assuming that's what most people believe.
I think you must have quoted the wrong person because you just proved my exact point that prices will go up on gaming for people in the US and the guy who said "prices will go down" has no clue

No piece of gaming hardware is manufactured in the US. Your PS5, Switch, Xbox, Steamdeck, GPUs are all going up in price if these tariffs are applied. And the majority of games are produced outside the US. Some stuff may not even make it to the US anymore based on the prices.

Your example of targeted tariffs is fine where there is local industry that can pick up the difference. What Trump has proposed is a blanket 60-100% tariff on China and 10-20% on every other country. He is effectively putting on a humungous sales tax and calling it a tariff. It is nonsense policy that will adversely affect gaming where there is no local US manufacturing of specialised parts

The best case scenario for US gamers is that these manufacturing industries do pop up in the US. But that is unlikely to happen and would realistically be more expensive for the same parts to be made. It also places the Western gaming companies that the culture war grifters hate at a competitive advantage when it comes to pricing
 

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America used to run just off tariffs, we went to war once for a far lower tax rate than we currently endure. This idea that other countries will respond in kind and we'll just bend over is shit, especially the China shit, China is too dependent on us to not try to bargain this. The fear-mongering is absurd, especially considering it's over raising prices, something we've seen get absurdly bad since the Dems were in charge the last 4 years, this idea it'll somehow get worse under Trump (someone doesn't remember what things were like during his first term) is just typical FUD BS.
 
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Here some more insight into proposed policies. One thing to note - a consumption tax means the rich pay their share as they spend, instead of a convoluted income basis open to infinite loopholes….

 

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Sony is a Japanese company and SIE has its HQ in USA. PS5 is manufactured in multiple countries being China one of them, and uses components from different countries being China one of them.

I highly doubt it would be affected by these tariffs in case they end being applied (I think they won't, I think Trump said that just as a negotiation strategy). If affected, I think it would have a small increase, not the 40% mentioned in the article.

I think the article is just Democrat fud bullshit.
 
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