Sounds like PlayStation 5 consoles are about to increase in price again!
How do we know? Well, because Sony just announced that they’re planning to charge more for them. Again. Christ almighty…
This report comes by way of Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson, who recently collated all of the relevant info from Sony’s latest earnings report.
In said report, Sony’s chief financial officer Lin Tao revealed that they may “pass the price” of the Trump administration’s tariffs… onto the customer.
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“In terms of the tariffs, we are not just simply calculating the simple tariffs [prices] to come up with 100 billion yen,” stated Tao, “but are thinking about the current available information and looking at the market trend, we may pass the price [to customers] and also shipment allocation. So we are taking different measures in managing to come up to the 100 billion yen.”
To clarify, the “100 billion yen” is the rough figure that they have to recoup as a result of the tariffs. That’s roughly 500 million dollars.
So, what do the users over on Insider Gaming’s Twitter post detailing the news think?
They think Sony is absolutely full of it.
Ghost of Yōtei is one of Sony's biggest upcoming releases.
“Naw, tariffs is a nice excuse to increase prices”, replied user @ArnulfoCarden17. “So when a new trade deal is hatched out, what becomes of the price increase?”
“So why did they increase the price in EU and other places already?” replied user @themrohiostate. “Did those nations just increase tarriffs too? If not Sony can stop with the bs.”
Yeah, it’s nonsense, and I’m glad that some folks out there are smart enough to see through this.
Sony isn’t hurting. It's not taking significant losses. And it damn sure isn’t going to reverse these price increases if these tariffs suddenly disappear.
The company wants more money. That’s it. At this point, I’d respect it more if it just came out and said that.
Topics: PlayStation 5, PlayStation, Sony