Console Gaming (General)

[Legacy]

Well my whole thing was looking at this from a greed perspective as the tariffs on china were just lowered or at least they’re looking at making a deal for lowering them. I’m hoping not to make this into a political debate of pro or against Trump himself.

Purely from a math perspective, a $100 increase is more inline with the 30% tariff (based on a $400 or $500 MSRP) than when the tariffs were first announced ($120 increase / $150 increase respectively).

The price increase on the games is similarly inline (30% of $60 is $18 dollars, so $80).

While I'm sure greed played a part, if the profit margin from production cost to MSRP is already slim (which, it often is... reports are that the Xbox X costs around $470 to produce), then companies have a lot less wiggle to eat the cost of any tariffs.

 

[amar831]

Purely from a math perspective, a $100 increase is more inline with the 30% tariff (based on a $400 or $500 MSRP) than when the tariffs were first announced ($120 increase / $150 increase respectively).

The price increase on the games is similarly inline (30% of $60 is $18 dollars, so $80).

While I'm sure greed played a part, if the profit margin from production cost to MSRP is already slim (which, it often is... reports are that the Xbox X costs around $470 to produce), then companies have a lot less wiggle to eat the cost of any tariffs.

I’ve always thought that consoles were priced at an almost loss in comparison to the profit from games and online subscriptions

 

[Mike S]

Purely from a math perspective, a $100 increase is more inline with the 30% tariff (based on a $400 or $500 MSRP) than when the tariffs were first announced ($120 increase / $150 increase respectively).

The price increase on the games is similarly inline (30% of $60 is $18 dollars, so $80).

While I'm sure greed played a part, if the profit margin from production cost to MSRP is already slim (which, it often is... reports are that the Xbox X costs around $470 to produce), then companies have a lot less wiggle to eat the cost of any tariffs.

I bet Sony and Microsoft are wishing they followed Nintendo to Vietnam.

 

[Jake S]

I’ve always thought that consoles were priced at an almost loss in comparison to the profit from games and online subscriptions

Yeah, that’s my understanding, too.