In the US, gaming hardware prices rising as Trump’s tariffs come into effect - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.pcgamesn.com/trump-tariffs-pc-hardware-prices Effective today, September 24, there is a 10% tariff imposed on a host of different imports from China, and that will increase from January 1, 2019 up to a hefty 25%. The full tariff list covers 5,745 different items – with 297 taken off the original list, including tech like smart watches and Bluetooth devices – and in that list is pretty much everything that goes into making your gaming PC tick. In fact Trump’s list also includes a tariff on the outer workings too, even down to your mouse pad. We hope you’re happy with your current rig, because it’s going to get mighty pricey to upgrade… https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/89/a67279f1-aa6e-48a3-ac87-5f9b42fbb5a0/tar.PNG

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/644/4bdbdb93-4e99-411e-83cf-5e6bb1c0c71b/image.png Phew

*laughs in console*

Gamers, rise up

That's it Time to call Keighley

(suddenly impeachment) /s

I mean, aren't we too dependant on China for manufacturing? I don't like Trump, and I don't like higher prices, but stuff like this is necessary if we want to end our dependance.

Sudden higher prices for no other reason than dumb pride are not the way to do it

I was planning on building/buying a PC in the near future, looks like I'll have to get that done before the year's out.

To bad prices are already high because of price fixing.

If not higher prices, then what?

This is why we can't have nice things? Impeach Trump!

Moving manufacturing into the US wouldn't just be a small price increase, it would multiply prices. For example: An evaluation by Marketplace looked into the hypothetical cost of an American-made iPhone, and came up with a similar estimate. If all the components were made in the US, they suggest, that could push the cost up to $600, which would mean the phone could retail for as much as $2000.

Based, now less muricans will hog the market, resulting in price drop elsewhere

nobody respects woman more than gamers

Taxing yourselves on everything from rolled steel to keyboard-mouse bundles to own the libs Chinese.

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/205984/b4ad699e-63ec-4c52-9957-36d50ff36b92/image.png WE DID IT *sniff* WE BEAT THOSE SJWS...

I sadly can see the prices of GPUs and Motherboards spiking up here in Brazil, since most of them are imported from the US.

PC gaming is already too expensive for a huge part of the population. This will hurt multiple industries at once, and consumers the most as usual. It's incredibly hypocritical from Trump to control the free tech markets for absolutely no reason beside flexing on china, when his entire party cries about big governement all day. In the end, this won't change at all the situation, but everyone will be hurt more, especialy poorer PC users as usual. What do you want to do, have the american governement force intel, nvidia, AMD, Asus etc all collectively stop manufacturing in china? To what end?

yeah, figured this would happen with those tariffs.

https://youtu.be/pVsMcCsUaq4?t=27

Stay winning!!!!!! Libtards BTFO! ive seen trumptards actually say “doesn’t effect me, I’m not buying a new phone or computer” as a reason this isn’t bad theres so much of that “doesn’t hurt me doesn’t matter” thought process in trump supporters

Good fucking luck trying to find anyone willing to work on those factories for $0.50 an hour.

I'm 99% sure that nobody listed libtards as their reasoning for supporting the tarrifs, even if the actual given reasons were shite.

So glad I got my new PC and car before everything hit the fan.

No, having companies stop all manufacturing in China is unrealistic and potentially disasterous. I just want to know if there's any way other than raising prices or forcing a stop of manufacturing to combat China's control over manufacturing. I'd like a better option, but between the two it seems like higher prices is the only way to feasibly take action against it. I mean, something needs to change right? Chinese factories have terrible work conditions and many workers work for minuscule pay. Unless something has changed that I'm not aware of. Big companies manufacturing overseas because they can treat people worse and pay them less is bad, right?

I agree that a lot of chinese worker conditions are terrible, but Trump doesn't care about them, isnt doing this for them, and ultimately this won't help them at all. They will either work on something else or lose their job because they lost a big manufacturing deal. That change has to come from China, and US tariffs will never impact that.

This changes nothing for anyone except the consumer who buys the products

I can say as an Electrical Engineer, the tarrifs are hot garbage right now but it compounds with the fact that there's currently a shortage on capacitors in the market as well. It's been going on since late last year just due to the sheer demand of caps by the IoT, Automotive, etc businesses eating up all the stock mostly because manufactures like Murata & Kemet didn't expect this sudden surge in demand. And some manufactures, looking at you Samsung, are artificially limiting supply. So the situation for most electronics is high prices and low supply for the coming future.

Oh no, soon top end video cards will be impossibly unaffordable and with no sign of prices dropping as the model ages...