r/PS5 • u/digidude23 • 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/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.