Certain graphics cards, motherboards, and even PC cases could rise by as much as 25% in price.

Just a FYI.

  • SatouKazuma@ani.social
    234·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
    12·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      15·
      4 months ago

      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.

    • DarkGamer@kbin.social
      7·
      4 months ago

      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.