Your Next Retro Emulation Handheld Could Cost You 35% More Than Usual

raising handheld hardware prices to own the libs

Kind of suck for usa people but our country also got higher tax (and higher price) for western import like ps5 and iphones. For example my iPhone 14 Plus (128gb) cost about $1.035 when I bought it on release day.

Who said I owned one in the first place? lol

Devils you know and devils you don't. The "sides" only pretend to hate each other as they rile up their demographics against the others.

That said: no, it won't affect the things I'm going to buy, but I'm already pretty frugal with my gaming purchases and prefer to play what I have than yearn for what I don't.

@Tasuki

"This is what the people wanted, if they didn't they wouldn't have voted for him."

false. more people didn't vote for him, than did.

✋ Personally, I voted against him.

"This is what the people wanted, if they didn't they wouldn't have voted for him."

Something like 30% of registered voters voted for trump. While he won the popular vote by a slim margin he failed to gather even half of the ballots cast. The majority of the American people do not want donald trump.

Analysis of the election at this point indicates that his "win" was largely the result of voter suppression, disenfranchisement, and intimidation.

In other words, they cheated and they still barely won. trump being the democracy hating chud that he is takes this pathetic "victory" to be a "mandate". Because he and his followers are completely insane.

That idiot is going to bury us. And every person who voted for him will deserve it.

I would be more inclined to agree with the sentiment that this is what people voted for, except for the fact that trump blatantly lied about what tariffs actually are. Plus, doing a trade war with no clear strategy is also a problem.

I'm in the UK so don't really care

@Tasuki thats bs, if i would have to vote for a party or candidate i would 100% agree on i would never be able to vote.
(Btw i'm euro)

Good thing I don’t need anything else at the moment.

@sdelfin I'm honestly not sure if he lied about what tariffs are or if he actually has no idea what they are and how they work beyond "tax on imports."

Let's wait and see how it all pans out before we fearmonger. I think we all should have learned better by now.

@RetroGames agreed and headlines like these are so tiring.

I personally go certain gaming and hobby sites to escape the culture/politics toxicity that's in every other corner of the internet.

Crazy thought - can we put down our pitchforks and talk about the retro gaming we like instead of the political ideologies that we don't like?

Damian, who is your favourite politician?

@Green_Devil So, if you're wanting to write an article about price increases, how does one do it without mentioning politics? It's like writing an article about modern games and how a lot of them have been increasing in price; you can't ignore the factors for the price increase (ever increasing budgets, shareholders wanting ever increasing profits, etc) .

Just ignore the article if you're not interested.

@GlamorousAlpaca Tell me about it, right.

I mean, two things that I think are quite obviously true of Damien in my time visiting this site:

1. He's not a fan of one political side of the isle and is happy to let politics infect and bias some of the things he posts.

2. He's partial towards the genesis and is happy to let that infect and bias some of the things he posts.

But, hey, I guess he's the one calling the shots.

@GlamorousAlpaca Who's yours?

@Lanmanna Well, you certainly don't have to do it with a subheading and some of the particular text in the article that's clearly showing your bias towards one side of the political isle in the way it's worded. Maybe being a bit more professional would be ideal. I'm surprised it wasn't phrased "right-wing Republican extremist Trump's tariffs and how they're going to make all your gaming devices more expensive and ruin your life--because of Trump . . ."

Trump seems to go into very strange and hurtful politics to get the Deal what he wants.
As China is facing a economical Crisis, i guess they don't want to escalate this too much and in the End it will settle somewhere, as the US are also not interested in having a Shut Down with all the cheap Goods.

I appreciate the info. Actions of politicians will affect us all, eventually.

@-wc- He actually won the popular vote too. But adding non-voters to the tally is a funny, new math way of trying to spin an argument lol. Just remember to say the same thing when the other side wins.

@Bokono lol you sounding like the side you made fun of 4 years ago for claiming the election was stolen. The majority didn't want Biden or Obama too by your metric.

Disincentivizing people to buy junk emulator consoles in order to 'convince' China to stop selling fentanyl precursors to the cartels? Sign me up!

@RetroGames It's accurate that Trump's push for tariffs would raise the prices on imported handhelds. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. The headline is accurate and factual, regardless of the writer's politics. Reporting is not about being fair; it's about truth.

Well, the trolls have infected this place too.

For example, our good friend and loyal reader Craftylover, a valued member of this site since 3.35, 2 minutes before posting this.

Talk about getting a life and growing up. Imagine creating an account just to tell people you grow tired of the fear mongering.

Oh well... I guess I will go to the next article. Hopefully no trolls there.

So we had the same thing with tariffs in the UK (because of brexit) and it doesn’t do small companies any favours, in fact it wiped a lot of small businesses out because the extra cost to import goods. The only people it actually benefits are big corp companies (which have special deals to get around such tariffs) and the government (who absorb those tariffs without really piping that back into the economy). I do genuinely believe that we are all being screwed here somehow and the money is going somewhere just not into local councils. Instead I think it’s going into someone’s pocket, which then helps them remain in power for longer….

hmm, it seems even the people who are supposedly satisfied with these turns of events have to perform olympian-level mental gymnastics to rationalize away a tsunami of cruelty and desolation that dwarfs anything we've seen in our lifetimes by orders of magnitude (save for that painting at the Denver Airport with the dude who has a gas mask, an AK and a cutlass), lest they allow themselves to experience even a crumb of buyer's remorse!
oh well, maybe things will be different in our next life, gotta stay positive!

@Blofse yeah it's called a "protection racket"

@Green_Devil Agreed. Not American and now all of a sudden we have US based economic policy articles. I’d doubt anybody here is professional economist nor is looking to scratch the itch here so leave the politics aside please.

@nilcam It's fear mongering unless it actually happens. So maybe these places should report on actual facts rather than speculation. If the price of consoles goes up next year, report on it. If the price of consoles doesn't go up next year, it's a case of utterly unprofessional fear mongering at its worst. And we all know exactly the place it's coming from. The less we have of that in our gaming sites, the better.

@RetroGames wow are you saying that predictions shouldn't be allowed? that's such a weird statement. It's a prediction based on announcements that have been made. You make it sound like it's all made up. Human beings have the mental ability to use today's facts to make informed predictions and decisions in the future, and this website is correctly reporting on it. If I was in the US and was considering buying a retro handheld, I would buy it sooner rather than later, to avoid any risk.

This is nonsense fear mongering meant get us to spend more money.

All one has to do is order direct from China, and tariffs don't apply. As long as the item is less than 800$.

Yes, I do indeed come to a retro gaming news site, so that I can be fed political opinions instead.

More people searched "what are tariffs" after the election than before. People didn't know what they were voting for. They'll find out the hard way but we'll all pay the price.

I had been waiting all this time to actually buy one. I probably waited a little too long. 😂

@Trmn8r

"Just remember to say the same thing when the other side wins."

1) Don't assume you know what my "side" is, thanks.

2) I have no problem saying "more people didnt vote for X than did" when it's a factual statement, nevermind who X might be.

regardless, it's blatantly false to say that everyone wanted X policy when a fraction of people voted for it in the affirmative. no "math" required. 👍

look out, y'all. he's travelled from decades in the future to own the libs with comments.

@betterman "Human beings have the mental ability to use today's facts to make informed predictions and decisions in the future"

If only that were true for everyone, but not based on a million things I've seen online in recent times showing how utterly easily it is it lie to and manipulate people into believing a totally false narrative and acting in all crazy ways based upon that.

And it's not a fact until it's a fact. Right now it's just a "what if" that comes across very much like fear mongering.

@-wc- He had more votes than Harris. 49.8 to 48.3 says it all. Be real, dude.

Funny how people think democracy works. It’s anti democratic the moment your candidate loses.

Administration A making a buttload of mistakes, no one seems to remember once administration B comes into play. They also deserve to make their own mistakes.

what is with all the years-dormant accounts with 5 total comments coming out of the woodwork to breathlessly defend misguided trade policy? 🤔

I think it sucks how people who are into this hobby often think that they have the right to live in the past forever and tend not to have a healthy relationship with the present, lashing out when the world outside intrudes on their nostalgia because they let everything else in their life atrophy in the meantime
Worse still is when they try to correct you on stuff, confidently wrong, because they want to pretend everything is okay all the time, when they don't even have the vocabulary to engage with the concepts on the same level as you because they've been gaming exclusively without doing stuff like reading, like I said, it's atrophy, the brain is a muscle, use it or lose it
"It's escapism! Can't you see? It's not healthy!" ~ that one ***** from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance who we all hated but he was kinda right

@PZT "I can have fun here, fun! And you want to take it all away!"

Time Extension and NintendoLife are my favorite political comments sections.

They remind me constantly that there's a cost to being uneducated.

@Sawboss read my comment above

@RetroGames That Orange Man Bad I don't know... 😂

@slider1983 So they say. So they keep saying.