de minimus tariff exemption (imported goods valued at under $800) ends at the end of the month because trump said so a few days ago
this is why
This does not only affect playstation. Anyone who doesnt have a stockpile of inventory already imported are gonna be affected very soon.
Norwegian postal service will not send packages with less than $800 dollars (except for private packages). Many businesses will not send anything to the US in the coming months.
jokes on you if you thought this was about this term, it’s about his first term.
The COVID deaths statistic gave it away. Nobody cares about that any more.
Plus the number is quite a lot bigger now.
Belgian postal service is suspending all deliveries regardless of value.
The ports must be bracing for chaos.
I thought these increases were going to be as bad as Xbox by the looks of things. $50 for PlayStation is way better than I thought vs $100 for greedy Microsoft.
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Have you all said thank you yet for the tariffs?
Definitely not getting in on this generation, then.
Unfortunately Christmas is gonna be rough time for a lot of Americans this year thanks to the trump tax
Americans need to boycott Christmas. Make memories and handmade presents instead of sending money at billionaires
That’s their fault for voting for Trump or not voting at all
Eh, I voted third party. Why? Because my vote literally doesn’t matter in my state, since Trump took it with >20% margin. Votes only really matter in like 8 states because the rest have enough straight ticket voters to secure the election for one of the candidates. And in those 8 or so states, the misinformation was real, so it’s understandable that many people didn’t know what they were getting with their vote, they just voted based on whatever smear campaign made them hate the other candidate more.
IMO, the fault here lies w/ Kamala Harris for running a mediocre campaign promising the “status quo” when most people wanted real change. If she ran a more interesting campaign with actual plans regular people could understand, maybe she could’ve cut through the noise and reached enough people to win.
Literal millions of us (myself included) voted “correctly” for Harris. Blue no matter who. We did our part for your petty ass purity test and we’re still getting fucked.
Must be nice to live in a world where people only experience the results of who they voted for.
Dude, I’m from the US. I know. But the fact of the matter is that there’s shittons of poor people who voted for Trump, and they’re the ones most at risk. And they’re the ones I’m calling out
Tens of millions of us voted against it and did our best to convince those around us.
On the whole, we deserve what we’re getting. We asked for it. I just hope the rest of the world doesn’t forget that so many of us tried.
I’m gonna wait until 11:59 to order my PS5 and then list it tomorrow as a “limited edition pre-increase model” for $150 more. Then Sony will hire me as their CEO.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Reduce comes first for a reason.
You do not need a PS5. You don’t need a new console - if you need a console at all.
A okay gaming PC withis not cheap. To some people, console is the only way
Just buy used PS5.
My PC is not a “gaming” PC. I play games on it. I have access to a nearly 50-year library of games. Just because I don’t have the newest and shiniest doesn’t mean I don’t have tons of fun games available. And I said ‘if you need a console at all’. If you are determined to play video games and you don’t want them on a PC, phone, or tablet, then fine. There are thrift stores, there’s eBay (though that’s loaded with scalpers and scum even more than the thrift grifters), there are many ways to buy a used console. But I also stand by the thought that if what you have is working and being fun, keep using it. If the corporations have made it not fun, either go to older hardware they can’t do that to, or get homebrew set up.
Don’t just keep it on a shelf “in case”. Don’t store it. And for the love of anything good, don’t just discard it.
Reduce. If you think you’ve reduced “enough”, find something else to reduce.
As demand increases so will their price too.
What is wrong with ps4 or ps3? Are the games not good because they are aged?
I do most of my gaming on ps1 and wii, and a bit on PC.
IN MY DAY WE HAD A STICK AND A HOOP AND WE WERE HAPPY
Getting into that case also gets into pedagogical theory, because giving kids primarily analog entertainment compared to digital seems to be beneficial. I was talking about those of us adults who are already doomed. We have computers. We already have machines. We don’t need the new one.
I’m my day that wasn’t far from the truth. We don’t need quality games machines but they’re a very nice luxury.
Quality is exactly what we need in games machines.
Not meaningless iteration and oppressive corporate greed. The 2600 was a quality machine - you can still find working VCS consoles in the wild - and when they fail, it’s usually something that can be fixed by the owner of the console. It doesn’t die because software tells it to die, or because of a known manufacturing fault where a simple fix was ignored because it wouldn’t have been profitable. The same can (mostly) be said of NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, SNES, and even TG16/PC Engine.
Beyond that, I expect that 32-bit machines and forward should still work, even if disk rot is affecting the ones that weren’t cartridge based.
“When I joined the Corps, we didn’t have any fancy-shmancy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole platoon - and we had to share the rock!”
— Sgt Johnson, Halo 2
“You don’t need a new PS4-game player. Your PS4 is fine enough as-is!”
A cheap SSD upgradeand a PS4 plays PS4 games the same way a PS5 does.
I mean, there’s that too.
Damn shame, Sony. I’m lowering my buy price by $50.
Are you under the impression this is Sony trying to gouge you? It’s your idiot president and your trash country
Damn shame, Trump. I’m lowering my buy tax by $5.
Other countries got their price increase months ago. Ours was probably delayed so that they could tell how bad the damages of our idiot president would be.
Then why did so many other countries get an increase first?
You’re right. I can’t forget to factor him in.
It’s $100 less now. I’m taking a tariff on it. Final offer.
Say thank you.
I just got a PS3 for free
You lucky bastard! Good for you. 🤘
I once traded someone my PS3 for his PS4.
I traded up, and he had two PS4s and no PS3 and he wanted one of each. It was a win-win.And a PS4 BluRay exploit has just been released, so you can crack the whole thing by burning a BluRay (up to a certain software version).
Lots of legitimately obtained backup copies to play!
Is there a cfw yet or other homebrew? Or we just at the start and they’ve just found the door in so far?
There isn’t a CFW for PS4. But what we have is GoldHEN (which enables us to run decrypted games, also called fPKG’s) and various methods to run GoldHEN.
Up to firmware 9.00 (I believe) there is a browser exploit to run it, up to 11.00 you can also hack the console via PPP (pppwn) and up to 12.02 GoldHEN can be loaded with a BluRay you have burned before.
So you basically start the system and put it in a state where it accepts unsigned code. It’s very similar to PS3HEN. There’s also a method of hacking the console with some obscure Japanese games and one with a PS2 game. Some absolute madlads even made it possible to hack the PS4 with an LG Smart TV. 😆
The channel MODDED WARFARE always reports on those methods and makes tutorials, highly recommended.
And Nintendo over here raising console prices for shit released in 2017 I guess only thing in common was Trump.
Well, that’s tariffs for you. Completely expected, though a ~10% bump on the PS5 doesn’t adjust for all the tariff increase IIRC.
*capitalism for you.
the tariffs are part of the overall system which is designed to exploit folks a few rich owners can profit.
Then why did Sony also increase pricing in several other countries?
Pretty sure this is due to the dollar weakening by 10%.
That’s not a particularly realistic explanation
The USD index has weakened by 10% as a whole, but not relative to the JPY. It has held roughly steady against the yen for the past couple years, before which the yen had weakened significantly. USD to JPY is extremely high right now, compared to where it has been over the past 15 years
Pretty sure the dollar weakened by 10% over it being harder to trade with the US.
Both? Probably both.
Positive feedback from Trump trying to fix an economy he is beyond understanding.
But the shouty man on TV said tariffs were good! Why vibeo janes cost more?
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Good for the sovereign wealth black hole of money though! Wherever that ends up getting spent, likely on gold plating the jumbo plane bribe he accepted.
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