Consolefags get fucked.
PC Master Race wins again.
my favorite part is, these people under biden are so bad off that 100 dollars extra on a thing that should be a luxury 'saved for' purchase is absolutely devastating to them. they cannot comprehend that a corporation might not care if they can't afford to buy the latest and greatest console, or that the cost of the upgraded internals may actually have bumped up production costs. but instead of blaming the president who put them in a financial situation where they cannot even save an extra 100 dollars in a reasonable time frame to buy a console, they blame the guy who's working to try and fix that very economic state. it's just more proof in my eyes that most people talking about the tariffs do not even know what the fuck a tariff IS, let alone how they work, who they're applied to, what goods are being tariffed, or anything else about it.
Is this because the games are manufactured in China? I remember when they were all manufactured in Japan. I guess that must have switched some time during the DS or Switch era when they moved to the flash cartridge format.
no, this is being done to digital games as well, as i explained a bit earlier it's because video games did not inflate in price the way other goods did, and now the inflation is happening all at once, so it seems much higher compared to other things, but if you do inflation calculation, games are far cheaper today, even at 90 USD, than they were regularly priced at during the Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 eras.
these people think that because there are tariffs on some countries, including japan, that those tariffs must be on 100% of goods in and out. but it's not the case for japan, whose tariffs are on aluminum exports, and automaking exports, which is why the tariffs on mexico are a problem for companies like nissan.