New Tariffs Could Lead To Fewer Physical Games And Higher Digital Prices
New Tariffs Could Lead To Fewer Physical Games And Higher Digital Prices
by IMissMyWife_Tails
26 Comments
Bumm-fluff
They will use any excuse to raise prices, this one is as good as any.
I’m not buying the PS6 or new Xbox, I can wait for sales and have a huge backlog. They can put up the prices all they want, no one will buy them.
Switch games are expensive but they also hold their value and are easy to trade in.
OrganicKeynesianBean
They came after gamers.
*Gamers.*
Wyluca95
Nintendo already moved much of their manufacturing to other East Asian countries outside of China and Furukawa said they expected any possible tariffs that do impact them to have minimal effect on both them and their consumers.
This might hurt PlayStation but for Nintendo it seems it is going to be a non issue.
EtheusRook
Far too many gamers support Pumpkin Spice Palpatine so it’s about time they enter the “find out” stage.
kamanitachi
“Companies will raise digital prices to reach parity on physical prices.”
This has never made sense to me for as long as digital games have been a thing. I always expected digital prices to be less because they don’t have to press a CD, ship loads of games, or occupy store space. Lo and behold, I go to buy a game on my Wii and it costs the same as it does in the store. But of course it’s just a profit game at the end of the day. Why pass those savings on when you can keep them?
mouseywithpower
And to think, so many gamers support this dude. Have we done enough finding out? Can yall stop voting for this maniac?
NIDORAX
This unfortunate situation is caused by that one old orange obese geezer in the white house. Who else is to blame? Russia? China? Nope. Its that Donald.
And we gamers have to suffer for this?
QF_Dan
LRG could be out of business
TerribleTerabytes
Y’know, today I finally decided that I didn’t just disapprove of what’s happening in our Government, I want it actually removed. My breaking point was reading the headline of Trump questioning why we’re defending Japan, claiming they should be defending themselves. “Who makes these deals?” he said.
We did, Donald. We did. We are the reason why they don’t have an army when we did that little minor insignificant thing of NUKING THEM TWICE and reconstructing their entire Government on OUR terms. Granted, removing their military at the time made sense because Imperial Japan needed to be dismantled. But that was in exchange for promising to defend them. (Something they actually pay the majority cost of themselves, mind you.) This is basic WWII history. Maybe crack open a book sometime, Donald. Fuck.
Alernet
You mess with my GameBoy, I’ll Color you Advanced, partner. *Spits dip into GameCube*.
I don’t want to spend any more dang money on games. Ugh I hope this is minimized somehow.
theyburnedmyfriend
Oh perfect, just what I fucking wanted. To pay more to not actually own something I pay a full retail price for.
Jarppakarppa
Remember when we thought digital games would bring prices down? I barely remember.
Hassage
I’m glad to live in France where physical games are still important 😀
Calexixa777
F*** that sucks
Krombasher
I got a backlog, I’m good.
TalesOfFan
Good. End the bread and circuses and the people may finally wake up.
Raleth
You can’t simultaneously already be phasing out physical media and then now act like this is going to affect digital prices. Seems like a convenient excuse to me.
Valuable_Product9570
This has already been happening in Latin America, The PVP of digital games on switch is now 67.99 and Ps and Xbox games are 79.99, and so on and so forward. considering the exchange rate and economy in the region is more unstable than an action figure trying to stand on its own, and the mentioned situation, I can see why it’s happening.
this happened last time in 2017-2018 when the exchange rate fell, things became less expensive If I remember correctly.
Phoef
Before digital games became a thing gamesites advocate for them bcs they would be cheaper, ha! What a joke.
Drmo6
Zero reason a digital game should get more expensive
raylan_givens6
This is what we get when a man with a 4th grade level of economics is elected
And sells sneakers and steak knives………
Juliko1993
Thanks a lot, orange manbaby. Glad to know making games more expensive is yet another addition to your Jupiter-sized rap sheet.
As someone who’s been on a mission to collect as many physical games in light of the 3DS eShop closure, this is bad, not just for games in general but for game preservation.
warmapplejuice
“AMERICA IS BACK ✊🏻” – Trump
alextastic
Digital prices have nothing to do with this, that’s just them taking advantage of the situation.
NiaAutomatas
Wow sounds like they found the perfect excuse to raise prices.
Blame the thing that everyone is already blaming and the consoomers will just defend the price hikes and blame it not on greed but current thing lol
26 Comments
They will use any excuse to raise prices, this one is as good as any.
I’m not buying the PS6 or new Xbox, I can wait for sales and have a huge backlog. They can put up the prices all they want, no one will buy them.
Switch games are expensive but they also hold their value and are easy to trade in.
They came after gamers.
*Gamers.*
Nintendo already moved much of their manufacturing to other East Asian countries outside of China and Furukawa said they expected any possible tariffs that do impact them to have minimal effect on both them and their consumers.
This might hurt PlayStation but for Nintendo it seems it is going to be a non issue.
Far too many gamers support Pumpkin Spice Palpatine so it’s about time they enter the “find out” stage.
“Companies will raise digital prices to reach parity on physical prices.”
This has never made sense to me for as long as digital games have been a thing. I always expected digital prices to be less because they don’t have to press a CD, ship loads of games, or occupy store space. Lo and behold, I go to buy a game on my Wii and it costs the same as it does in the store. But of course it’s just a profit game at the end of the day. Why pass those savings on when you can keep them?
And to think, so many gamers support this dude. Have we done enough finding out? Can yall stop voting for this maniac?
This unfortunate situation is caused by that one old orange obese geezer in the white house. Who else is to blame? Russia? China? Nope. Its that Donald.
And we gamers have to suffer for this?
LRG could be out of business
Y’know, today I finally decided that I didn’t just disapprove of what’s happening in our Government, I want it actually removed. My breaking point was reading the headline of Trump questioning why we’re defending Japan, claiming they should be defending themselves. “Who makes these deals?” he said.
We did, Donald. We did. We are the reason why they don’t have an army when we did that little minor insignificant thing of NUKING THEM TWICE and reconstructing their entire Government on OUR terms. Granted, removing their military at the time made sense because Imperial Japan needed to be dismantled. But that was in exchange for promising to defend them. (Something they actually pay the majority cost of themselves, mind you.) This is basic WWII history. Maybe crack open a book sometime, Donald. Fuck.
You mess with my GameBoy, I’ll Color you Advanced, partner. *Spits dip into GameCube*.
I don’t want to spend any more dang money on games. Ugh I hope this is minimized somehow.
Oh perfect, just what I fucking wanted. To pay more to not actually own something I pay a full retail price for.
Remember when we thought digital games would bring prices down? I barely remember.
I’m glad to live in France where physical games are still important 😀
F*** that sucks
I got a backlog, I’m good.
Good. End the bread and circuses and the people may finally wake up.
You can’t simultaneously already be phasing out physical media and then now act like this is going to affect digital prices. Seems like a convenient excuse to me.
This has already been happening in Latin America, The PVP of digital games on switch is now 67.99 and Ps and Xbox games are 79.99, and so on and so forward. considering the exchange rate and economy in the region is more unstable than an action figure trying to stand on its own, and the mentioned situation, I can see why it’s happening.
this happened last time in 2017-2018 when the exchange rate fell, things became less expensive If I remember correctly.
Before digital games became a thing gamesites advocate for them bcs they would be cheaper, ha! What a joke.
Zero reason a digital game should get more expensive
This is what we get when a man with a 4th grade level of economics is elected
And sells sneakers and steak knives………
Thanks a lot, orange manbaby. Glad to know making games more expensive is yet another addition to your Jupiter-sized rap sheet.
As someone who’s been on a mission to collect as many physical games in light of the 3DS eShop closure, this is bad, not just for games in general but for game preservation.
“AMERICA IS BACK ✊🏻” – Trump
Digital prices have nothing to do with this, that’s just them taking advantage of the situation.
Wow sounds like they found the perfect excuse to raise prices.
Blame the thing that everyone is already blaming and the consoomers will just defend the price hikes and blame it not on greed but current thing lol
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