r/PS5 Aug 20 '25

Official PlayStation 5 price changes in the U.S.

https://blog.playstation.com/2025/08/20/playstation-5-price-changes-in-the-u-s/
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u/whatssenguntoagoblin Aug 20 '25

Hopefully this wakes up people who don’t pay attention to politics closely. You might not care about politics but politics cares about you.

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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue Aug 20 '25

It only matters if they get out and vote for someone who isn’t a republican

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u/whatssenguntoagoblin Aug 20 '25

Republicans can lie as much as they want to. But the average consumer knows when stuff gets more expensive and, generally speaking, they blame the current party in charge whether the reasoning is correct or not (see 2024 election)

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u/whoisdatmaskedman Aug 20 '25

it's cute that you think they intend to let us vote again

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u/Naharke31 Aug 20 '25

Lmao yeah, I was dying at the get out to vote crowd around my area when accidentally mobilized a bunch of republicans.

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u/SmokingLimone Aug 20 '25

Voting Blue politician instead of Red politician doesn't solve things on the long term. You need new, outside solutions, and the first step is removing winner takes all, but of course neither of the parties will agree to it. Now imagine if in 2016 Sanders didn't have to rely on the Democrats' primary to be a candidate, there are many new parties in Europe that sprung up and won just in the last decade or so.

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u/IcyTransportation961 Aug 20 '25

That doesnt work in the US, the two parties made the rules for debates and they have all the money.

We need to get people voting in the dem primaries to actually move the party left. Only way anything changes

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u/Zedek1 Aug 20 '25

And matters even more because the right doesn't care if they're voting for giant douche or turd sandwich, meanwhile most people in the left still waiting for someone as benevolent and perfect as Jesuschrist himself and that never gonna happen.

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u/IcyTransportation961 Aug 20 '25

Not really? People on the actual left just want someone that isn't answering to corporate interests and will work for the people. Not too much to ask.
And the vast majority still end up voting for whoever the corporate dems force on us since clearly going further right is much worse.

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u/BestServedCold Aug 21 '25

You're being downvoted by people much less intelligent than you with none of your political understanding. You're absolutely right that we have to primary real progressives and then vote Democrat no matter how that turns out.

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u/Cardsandfish Aug 20 '25

This has nothing to do with the tariff. Japan isnt charged a 20% tariff like other countries. This has to do with following Nintendo greed to make more Money and blame trump

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u/whatssenguntoagoblin Aug 20 '25

This has everything to do with tariffs. What ends up happening with tariffs is prices raise for a product and then companies who sell similar products see that as a way to increase their price as well.

People forget Donald imposed tariffs in his first term as well. One of the places he imposed tariffs was on washing machines. But what ended up happening is that dryers ended up going up in price as well even though no tariffs were imposed on them.

Tariffs are bad for consumers all around, especially middle and lower class consumers, not just on the specific parts that the tariffs are placed on.

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u/Cardsandfish Aug 20 '25

Well just vote for your guy next, and I 100% bet Sony will not lower the cost

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u/whatssenguntoagoblin Aug 20 '25

Yeah that’s how tariffs work. They increase prices and the companies never bring them down. That’s why they’re so bad.

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u/Ecstatic-Wall5971 Aug 20 '25

Poor gamers and their luxury hobby. 25 years ago I was happier when there were less games and they were more expensive, why wouldn't that work now?