Chrkeller said:
Bodes well for the mid terms? In theory tariffs don't bother me, if it brings MFG jobs back. While some companies have "committed" to bringing jobs back, I'll believe it when I see it. But having jobs back, on paper, would be nice. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-manufacturing-domestic-tariffs/ We shall see. Long term, paying a bit extra for a video game system to have jobs return... I lean towards jobs. Assuming any of this works. I remain skeptical (on follow through) but Nvidia, TMSC and Apple investing billions in US MFG? J&J? Merck? If this happens, sorry but paying $50 more for a ps5 is well worth it for the economic impact. |
They won't. That's the asinine thing about this point less excercise. You'd have to have the manufacturing capacity in place for this type of thing to have a chance at success. There is no domestic manufacturing capacity to shift too. Of course spending a couple of decades beefing up capacity and then slapping on tariffs can't be done in a soundbite or 4 year presidential term.
EDIT: You know I really wish people would have a legitmate discussion around Game Key Cards. While Nintendo isn't completely blameless, from a business standpoint, it seems like their biggest mistake was given Game Key Cards a unique name so that consumers would know what they are buying. Unfortunately, the disc/card being just a software key isn't new. There was minimal bitching about this fact until Nintendo gave a seperate name to games that do this. MS has essentially been doing this for years. In the case the Switch 1 publishers, Capcom comes to mind, would often just by the smallest game card Nintendo offered and consumers would have to download their supposedly physical game.
Nintendo should have offered a lower capacity card option, but lets be honest here, it's doubtful that many if any games publishers that went with Game Key Cards would have been swayed by this. The only thing it would have done is save Marvelous some money because in spite their small size they've actually been putting their games on the card. Large 3rd Party publishers, CD Projekt RED excluded, wouldn't offer their games on the card regardless.
Last edited by Darc Requiem - on 25 August 2025
