Newly Imposed US Tariffs Impacting Vietnam, Other Countries Could Lead to Gaming Price Hike

The newly imposed tariffs affecting Vietnam where game consoles are manufactured could lead to a massive price hike on gaming items.

[BeHunted]

Console prices in the USA will increase. Under the new U.S. tariff plan, consoles made in China would face a 34% tariff.

Price Breakdown:

Xbox Series X: $499 → $670 (before tax) → $717 (after tax)

PS5 Pro: $699 → $937 (before tax) → $1,002 (after tax)

PS5 Standard Edition: $499 → $670 (before tax) → $717 (after tax)

PS5 Digital Edition: $399 → $535 (before tax) → $573 (after tax)

Xbox Series S: $299 → $401 (before tax) → $429 (after tax)

Nintendo Switch: $299 → $401 (before tax) → $428 (after tax)

[Outside_ofthe_Box]

Thousand dollar console and hundred dollar games. Thank you Trump and everyone that voted for him! The economy has never been better!

[DodoDojo]

You're welcome.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and a tariff for a tariff.

[ExPresident]

The economy wasn’t good anyway. Inflation was a mess, prices were up, and there aren’t enough jobs. Continuing to do what we’d been doing is the definition of insanity. High time to try something else.

[Redemption-64]

@ExPresident

High time to try something else.

Yeah, like make things significantly worse right? I mean that is such an awesome idea to vote in the idiot who filed for 6 bankruptcies and who during his 1st term had to end up spending billions to bail out farmers because of tariffs that almost put them out of business. You are complaining about things being expensive, yet pushing a stupid idea that makes things significantly more expensive.

[S2Killinit]

Lol 😆 seriously

[The_Blue]

But but assassin creed Shadow....

[SGT_Squirrel]

You are an idiot only looking at the short term.

[SGT_Squirrel]

Looking at the short term is silly. Manufacturing is already starting to return, and this country always did better when we had strong manufacturing and a strong middle class.

[franwex]

This is incorrect. I don’t agree with Trump, but at least let’s not spread misinformation if we can (unlike how MAGA hats do). The tariffs are not a consumer tax. They will charge the tax on the manufacturers. Meaning on what they pay to make the consoles.

So if it costs Sony $200 to make a ps5 in China, and there’s a 25% tariff-Sony will pay $50 for the privilege of selling a PS5 in the USA. So it eats into Sony’s profits as the PS5 is $500. Maybe Sony will increase its price by $50. Or it may want to stay competitive and keep the $500 price. Maybe Sony will manufacture the console in the US to avoid the tariffs? These parts are unknown at this time.

[Deathdeliverer]

@franwex
This incredibly wrong. That’s not how tariffs work at all. It doesn’t matter where in the world Sony made their PS5 in your scenario, they would pay tariffs on components they couldn’t source from the place it’s all being put together to create a PS5. Based on that Sony sets a price that makes them a profit when they sell it to the seller, and a profit for the seller if they sell at the “suggested” retail price. For Clarity Will say the PS5 sells to sellers for 465. The seller sells it at the suggested price of 500. The seller factors in any fees (like tariffs) they will have to pay to bring in this PS5 and sets a price. The SRP takes that into some consideration but how much profit the actual seller gets varies wildly based on tariffs. To the point where the seller will consider it not worth bringing the item in and selling it because nobody will buy it at the prices he has to sell it for to make a profit when the end user buys it.
That is where Tariffs hit the consumers. Those Tariffs are paid at the ports, for example, that they are brought in at. Let’s say Shoryuken Games has ordered 500 PS5s from Sony to sell in America. When it gets to the port they will look at its country of origin and depending on the type of item, its components, and charge tariffs on the IMPORTER based on that info. Shoryuken games right there in the old US of A now pays an extra 10%-50% to get it from the port to their shelves. Now they have to think. We paid MORE than the suggest retail price for these PS5s because of Tariffs. We have to make money too, so we will make them cost $520 so we can get the cut we originally planned on getting. I hope it doesn’t bother people too much and they still buy it.

THAT is how tariffs work and how customers eat the tariffs at the end of the day. Sony got their money a long time ago when the seller bought the shipment. They don’t pay for the “right” to sell anything. What hurts Sony is dang, people aren’t importing the PS5 in country G because they are having to pay some wild tariffs to get it in. Can we make concessions for country G to help with some of that cost so they can sell at a lower price there? We are a business too though and we also have to remain profitable… maybe we can wait until the slim version comes out and things on our end are cheaper to make. Then we can try to launch in the Tariff ridden countries. We could also build a factory in said tariff ridden country and just make the item there, but what’s the ROI on something like that? It will cost us multiple times more in labor because people will not work as cheaply as they do in country L. The product will have to cost a LOT higher on our end to make and an outrageous price before it hits the consumer in some countries.

Hope this is clear and FINALLY helps some people. May this wall of text have value 🤣

[franwex]

@deathdeliverer
Thank you for clarifying. I did a really quick oversimplified version. Essentially I was trying to clarify that the tariffs are not a tax on the consumer as stated above.

[Deathdeliverer]

@franwex

It’s not a tax on the customer but IS a cost payed by the customer. Sony pays no more or less to send their PlayStation to China as they do America. Someone there BOUGHT it already.

[Neonridr]

tell me you don't know how tariffs work without telling me you don't know.

[kayoss]

You cant be so more wrong. Thats not how tariffs works. It will be consumer footing the bill when its all said and done. To anyone who say, "Look at the long term", you are also wrong. Tariff is a great idea if we were still living in the 50's, 60's and 70's when manufacturing plants were abundant in the USA. However, those manufacturing plants are no longer there, companies have moved their manufacturing plants out of the country for to cheaper cost and labor. Do you honestly going to sit here and think that companies will spend multi-million dollars to build manufacturing plants in the USA, pay workers higher wages, pay workers benefits, pay for insurances, etc...? The easiest thing for companies to do is to raise the prices to offset the tariffs.

[gold_drake]

i still find it so odd that america lives in this world where they have Before and After tax ha

its gaslighting 101 haha

[Cellblock11]

Source for your numbers? Or just guessing to rile people up?

[Eonjay]

Seems like Switch 2 walked right into this. They announced there console a day before tariffs were announced. If we start seeing 600+ Switch prices...

[z2g]

But at least inflation is up and groceries are still expensive. Are we great again yet?

[1Victor]

@all behunted got disagreed because each state got different taxes and while some are low at about 6% like Florida othered are as high or higher as 8.88% like New York.

[DefenderOfDoom2]

Sad .

[ExPresident]

Could. Key word here. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t. Maybe more jobs actually come back and these specific countries drop their tarrifs on US products and negate the issue. Maybe.

But nothing we’ve been doing to this point has been working out great so it’s high time to try something else.

[Redemption-64]

You people live in some delusional alternate world. The ignorance on display truly and I mean truly deserves an award. One of the reasons trump and friends want to destroy DOE is to keep the ignorance alive with their sheep.

Manufacturing jobs left US because it is easier to produce them in other countries. The only way they will ever come back is if Americans all agree to take huge pay cuts and lower their salaries to match China or have to now pay significantly more for the same price. Am sure most Americans would be happy to see their pay check drop to $300-$700 a month to bring these jobs back right? If you think things are expensive now, you are in for treat

[ExPresident]

You mean bring back slave labor right? That’s what you meant to say. Because that’s the only way you get that cheap of labor.

We’ll see if things get that bad. The US was going bankrupt before Trump doing the same thing every administration.

[Redemption-64]

@ExPresident

Some countries are just easier to produce more products due to their weaker currency. If you want those jobs back, Americans would have to match the pay of those nations. Seriously is this rocket science to you people?

Over the course of trump’s four years in office, the gross national debt grew from $19.95 trillion to $27.75 trillion. Yeah, such an awesome business man right? This was literally him inheriting a growing economy from Obama, after the financial crisis left by republicans

The point is simple, you and your ilk clearly live in some made up delusional world where you think making things more expensive is the right thing to do. If the US is going bankrupt I guess I can understand why you think an 🍊 🤡 who filed for 6 bankruptcies, had to spend billions saving US farmers after almost causing them to go bankrupt with his tariffs failed, while growing the debt is the best choice

[kayoss]

@exPresident
Remember when trump became president in 2017? Remember when he implemented Tariffs on other countries during his first term? You know the high prices that we experienced during the Biden Administration was due to those Tariffs. I dont like Biden, I honestly thought he wasnt fit to be president, mentally. But the high prices wasnt his fault, it was due to Trumps policies during his first term.

[vovapeg]

Yes, it could also backfire as the rest of the world trades around the US instead of trading with the US and the value of the dollar tanks since it was based on the GDP which will almost certainly tank and foreign investors pull out of the US investment markets.

Meanwhile the idea that America is going to profit by producing its own goods could fail due to the fact that no one can afford anything so job creation can't happen and the economy turns into a third world situation with no middle class wealth to support growth.

Of doesn't help that Trump has also gutted government research investments which could lead to the US falling behind in its technological leadership role also damaging the economy as other places take that spot further damaging economic growth.

But I look forward to four years from now still blaming Biden and Obama who had extremely financially successful administrations that fixed the economic problems left to them by Republican Presidents, but I have faith that Trump in his second term will leave the economy so bad even a Democrat can't fix it.

[FIELDMARSHALL_P]

You might be a kid or something but I'm older got a 401k and stocks this is a freaking mess.

[MrBeatdown]

Try something else? If I have trouble repairing something in my house, I never light the house on fire and pretend it's a solution.

[PRIMORDUS]

If they want to push people to torrent more you got it, your on the right track, at least on the PC side. LOL.
If it were somehow possible to torrent physical items, your damn right I would. Usenet is good to.

[S2Killinit]

Haha holy shit 💩

[Elda]

All because of the Orange One.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Trump went so hard on tariffs. He even tariffed an island inhabited by penguins.

[ZeekQuattro]

There goes Trump making America great again. Higher prices on products. Lower taxes for millionaires and billionaires. Golfing and other sporting events on us. Gotta love it. 🫡

[glenn1979]

Orange clown in the Whitehouse how the hell you can bankrupt a freaking Casino? he's a conman now and a conman ever , just I don't understand how American voted for this man not one but twice, when the economy is in flames he will said just like he said when the covid hit it just magically go away

[franwex]

This may not be true:

Not a big Trump person. But tariffs didn’t affect consoles in 2018.

Source:

https://wolfstreet.com/2025...

[ZeekQuattro]

Well Nintendo and retailers outside of UK delayed Switch preoders over tarrifs so what happened in 2018 doesn't apply to today now does it?

[franwex]

The Switch 1 released Spring of 2017. Nintendo didn’t adjust the price to reflect the tariffs at that time. Neither did Sony or Microsoft. In fact, a lot of products didn’t overall (the stock market did crash though).

I don’t see tariffs affecting that much this time around either. I’m not saying absolutely not. But based on the past not really. It just seems that there is an over reaction from people here when I don’t think it’s warranted. I’m not pro tariffs, I’m just stating that chances are there won’t be price increases and provided a link to a well known analysts to back up what I’m stating. Here’s another report:

https://wolfstreet.com/2025...

I know they are a somewhat boring read. But there’s figures and tables with reliable information.

[Rancegamerx]

I know most of you here are uneducated and can only muster up enough brain cells to say "orange man bad" but the title clearly states this could happen, but it doesn’t mean it will. These tariffs primarily affect companies, not customers, unless companies choose to pass on the cost, which most won’t or won’t fully. The tariffs are temporary and aim to bring jobs back to the USA, focusing on economic growth.

Trump’s tariff strategy seeks to boost U.S. manufacturing, reduce trade deficits, and generate revenue by taxing imports. This is meant to encourage domestic production and job creation. Potential downsides include higher consumer prices and strained trade relationships. However, the temporary tariffs are also a tool to negotiate better trade deals.

Also stated by someone above who clearly knows nothing. The U.S. currency being replaced or devalued is unlikely. Tariffs influence trade balances, not currency stability, which depends on factors like interest rates and monetary policy. These tariffs are designed to support domestic industries and will likely have minimal impact on the dollar.

[Elit3Nick]

If you honestly believe that multi-billion dollar corporations won't use the tariffs an excuse to increase product prices, whether it actually affects said product, then I don't know what to tell you.

[kayoss]

I guess you didnt see the stock market dropping like rock that was tied to a 5 ton anchor did you? Look back at our last bad recession, this was how it started.

[z2g]

Assuming us Americans even keep our jobs to pay for games and consoles. The recession is coming. doing a great job of punching ourselves in the face right now with our moron president.

[Armyofdarkness]

Here in Norway I had to pay 7500 NOK for the Mario Kart bundle, which is about 700 US. Thats wiiiiild

[GotGame818]

Trump added more to the National Debt BEFORE COVID than any other president and the 2020 election wasn't stolen! He wanted a coup! How America forgot the dumpster fire that was 2020 is beyond me! Everything is going to be more expensive! From video games, cars, to groceries! I will get a Switch 2 as long as it isn't more than $500. Now watch trump cut taxes for the wealthiest in America!

[gigoran8]

so because America raised tariffs on other countries, somehow the switch 2 and the games for it are overly expensive in my country, not America. Sure, makes total sense.

[FungLip]

It was SNES for me when I was 10. I love SNES but PS2 takes it for me.