… Speaking to Eurogamer , Harding-Rolls, while reacting to the price increases this morning, said, " The supply chain shock of the elongated increase in memory and storage prices – both essential for console hardware – means that there is some inevitability to the PlayStation hardware price increases… …
… Related Story Xbox Launches New Dev-Focused Game Dev Update Show, Kicking Off May 7 With More Project Helix Talk These price increases and the limited availability of components for anything that is not supposed to be used in an AI data center is making things difficult even for console manufacture… …
Since April 2025, the wider video game industry has been discussing how Nintendo and other hardware makers would respond to the tariffs imposed by the current US government and how those tariffs would affect the price of devices and consumer sales . …