Gaming PCs and components look set to jump in price in the US as import tariff exclusions come to an end
Gaming PCs and components look set to jump in price in the US as import tariff exclusions come to an end
Certain graphics cards, motherboards, and even PC cases could rise by as much as 25% in price.
Just a FYI.
I don't know if I'm crazy, but that could literally kill PC gaming in the US, in my opinion. At that point, consoles absolutely run away in the competition of value.
Consoles aren't going to be immune, their components come from china too.
Yeah but when one PC component absolutely blows the price of a whole console out...
It won't, not even by a long shot. Twenty years of PC gaming and numerous booms, busts, corporate greed bullshit. PC gaming will be fucking fine, this is just another blip.
I thought most of the manufacturing and exporting was done through Taiwan and it's excluded from the high tariffs.
You must be young. These things happened before and it will happen again. You see, PC Gaming cannot be killed, because it belongs to everyone. We will endure. If anything, it will hit harder on console shortages or lack of demand.
When smartphones hit their peak, there was a big memory shortage, this ended up affecting the PS5 launch as well as PC RAM sticks and GPUs.
When Microsoft tried to enforce the Windows Store during the Windows 8 lifecycle, Valve responded by creating the first iteration of Steam OS, they launched their initiative and failed. But MS took note and stopped trying to force the store on Windows 8. Valve distrusted MS, so they kept investing in Steam OS so that it could become what it is today.
When 3DFX GPUs were expensive, people favored consoles for one generation, but that passed too and PC gamers came back in droves.
You see, Playstation can go bankrupt and never make a console again, as it happened with SEGA, NEOGEO, ATARI, and more. Maybe it will happen to XBOX consoles in the future. But PC Gaming is the sum of a multitude of companies which cannot close shop simultaneously.
Will it hit us? Sure. But we will endure.
There's plenty of room for optimization in recent games, meaning that new games can be made to run on the hardware we already own for years to come.
There is (still) a unusually high profit margin in key products like graphics cards, meaning that a price increase on some of the input components can most likely be absorbed with little-to-no change in product MSRP.
PC gaming can survive this just fine, certainly long enough for manufacturing in non-tariff countries to catch up.
thanks Biden for ruining something else
I doubt that Biden or Trump were personally involved one way or another. The Executive Branch is huge, and the President just isn't involved with the vast bulk of things that it does. An election only changes a few people at the very top who oversee the thing. Everyone else stays in place and keeps on going.
However, even if they somehow were, the timeline the article has is that the USTR recommended restrictions in 2018 -- when Trump was in office. In 2022, when Biden was in office, there were temporary carve-outs created for these, so that the tariffs, which affected many other things, did not affect these to provide a window for companies to relocate. The article is talking about how these temporary carve-outs are ending.
Thanks Trump for imposing the tariffs
The ccp stranglehold on electronics? Yeah I'm glad they're ruining that. At the end of the day, we might have a viable semiconductor business in the United States or in an allied country, which will leave us far better off.
It's like you don't understand recent history...
Things are really bad right now and only getting worse.