Sony wants to share the tariff related increase in price of it’s PlayStation across Europe and other regions.
https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/04/14/sony-hikes-playstation-5-prices-by-25-in-uk-europe-and-australia#:~:text=The%20recommended%20retail%20price%20for,announced%20pricing%20update%20in%202022.
by apegen
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So Americans want to export their inflation?
Fuck that I’m not going the subsidy Americans! Guess I won’t be buying a new PlayStation in the near future.
>Referring to the US, Christopher Dring, editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Game Business, said, as reported by the BBC: “Rather than simply increase prices there, it’s possible the likes of PlayStation could increase pricing globally in an effort to protect, as best they can, the US market.”
US tariffs raising prices for all consumers…
Do it Sony. Release Concord 2 after that, what’s the worst which can happen.
They are actually doing this. I think is just an opportunity for them to increase the prices
Thats a rediculous move Sony! Boo!
They won’t be the only ones doing that. Give soulless corpos an excuse to raise prices and they’ll definitely do it
The increase might be 11%, not the 25% stated in the article. Still not acceptable.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/sony-hikes-playstation-5-price-by-11-europe-2025-04-14/
US adds tariffs. Dollar goes down.
US is the only market where price does not increase. Right.
If they do it, it would be a perfect time to cancel Sony in Europe.
Excuse me what?
I bet Nintendo will do the same
Good, then I’m not buying one.
Isn’t Sony Japanese?
They must hate their market share.
Fuck Sony then I guess
I was looking to buy, but now I am not. This is a stupid move by Sony. If the US wants to kick themselves, so be it, but do not ask me to feel some of the hurt.
They’ll literally dominate the market even more with the Xbox getting tariffs, but they have to be greedy and do this instead. They just make some of the most bizarre decisions at times.
No problem, they have the right. I have the right not to buy this garbage.
Boycott this shit.
Maybe what Sony needs is the Tesla treatment
You want to lose most of your customer base? Because that’s how you lose most of your customer base.
So the solution is simple – cancel their subscription and write clearly about the reason.
and Europe can reply by not buying Sony
They want Europe to subsidise the USA? Fuck that. If the USA dug itself a hole then the USA needs to live in that hole
Fuck them, how it is our fault what Trump is doing??
Was just thinking of getting a PS5, guess won’t be doing that, no way I’m subsidising US for Sony after all they’ve done
Time to boycot Sony in that case
If Sony thinks it can raise prices in Europe to subsidise the US market, there is only one reasonable response to that, don’t buy their stuff.
So we are subsidizing America’s poor choices?
They expect Europeans to subsidize the US, even though the US willingly brought this upon itself?
We really are living in the most absurd timeline imaginable.
When the euro wasn’t doing so hot, Sony were amongst the first to raise prices for Europeans.
When the dollar isn’t doing so hot, Sony is amongst the first to raise prices for Europeans.
Every company that’s even contemplating about making Europeans pay for the US tariff madness should lose their license to do business here. I’m fucking done with these ghouls.
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