Submitted 1 day ago by Hisnitch@beehaw.org to gaming@beehaw.org
Do you guys think these companies will retroactively raise game prices?
There’s a couple of Nintendo games that never go on sale that I’ve been waiting on. I have a gift card, so I’m thinking maybe I should snag em now before things get stupid expensive
Trump puts tariffs on Americans and then companies use this as an excuse to raise prices worldwide
Good luck selling a “Xbox one series x pro plus elite series s” for €600
If your competitor is forced to raise prices 10%, why wouldn’t you raise prices 8/9/10%?
Anyone that’s taken an AP history class knew tariffs don’t work to help the economy — it’s a tax on all of us and only raises all prices.
You might not buy a €600 Xbox when the Switch is €250, but it looks more attractive when the Swich is €470
zero competitors are forced to raise prices 10% in europe, though
it’s a console launched 5 years ago with no new revision, it was unattractive for €500 in 2020 and it’s even more unattractive for €600 in 2025, if they want to move more units they should lower the prices, not increase them. With this price people can get a real PC with better performance, where you don’t need to pay a subscription to play online. And there are no cool “must have” exclusives like the ps5 or the switch, so the premium is not justified.
Tbf, Microsoft is an American company that is probably looking for ways to address their own rising expenses. Japan is struggling economically as well, so I imagine they’re looking for the foreign markets to offset their own struggles as well.
One thing that should be noted is Nintendo is roughly the 10th best company in Japan and has billions in reserve cash.
‘If we have to suffer, you have to suffer. We don’t need to be told we’re the best we the best we just are. The numbers prove it. Look at those numbers, highest they’ve ever been, it’s beautiful. Joe Biden could never have gotten numbers this high. Kamala and Hillary wanted to but we didn’t invite to the new island so they missed the party.’
looks at my steam deck
…yeeeeah
For real though, I’m so glad I got out of consoles haha.
Same, although I use the SD as a console, lol…
I had the original Xbox all the way through the last series and sold it to get the last 100€. I hadn’t bought a game on the Xbox since No Man’s Sky and just didn’t see anything appealing about it anymore, it was just a steaming box until it was gone (and is at a friend’s, who is using it as a streaming box, lol)
Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk 43 minutes ago
Nice. Hopefully this means I can get a bit more selling my series x and I can put the money towards better parts for my pc. Thanks MS