don't worry you guys, someone in the US will buy land, build a factory, and make cheap electronics the american way............................................................................................................................................................................
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.......in the south with slavery?
And blackjack and hookers … oh wait, that’s the south_west_.
This thread makes me so proud 🥲
Ah.... America...
Prices starting at 2000 USD, even with the legalised child labour that red states are pushing for.
The Chinese child and adult slave labor that is currently used to build these products isn't any better.
Nobody thinks about that. They just see the price and pretty much always pick the cheaper one. Ignoring the fact that Chinese work conditions are way worse than American work conditions, and the MSRP reflects that. People feign that they care about it until they actually have to pay, then cry that they cant buy the exploitative product because its more expensive now. Since they cant see the exploitation, its easier for them to justify it because it gives them a better price.
Red, blue, or magenta, the political landscape of the people involved doesn't matter. People being greedy and selfish is way older than American politics.
China aren't really known for dirt cheap labour anymore because they are mostly doing what the West is doing, which is offloading their labour to even poorer countries in South-East Asia and other developing countries.
Which doesn't really change the equation overall, of course.
The crazy part is none of this was necessary.... sucks to be an American right now, things are going to get so expensive they will get crushed.
calling these "game boy clones" isn't quite right because they don't take physical cartridges, but this is a real shame. companies like them and Miyoo and Retroid have been carving out a nice niche of gaming devices between a fully locked down console and a Whole Ass Personal Computer but this tariff situation is gonna kill them in their tracks stateside
Well... Can't get one of those now. :(
You could always try getting one shipped from a US warehouse or from Amazon.
eBay too
I feel bad for Americans that may soon be willing to pay for Anbernic devices at Retroid prices.
Yea, glad I bought my RG406 last year before the terroriffs.
Not Amazon.
It’s recommended in the article as a third-party option, and I can still see some in the US store.
Oh I know they have them, I'm just saying don't shop there.
I was wanting to wait a while longer on the Retroid Pocket 5 for financial reasons, but the tariffs spooked me that something like this might happen or the price would go way up so I ended up buying one a couple days ago just in case
That’s a rough place to be in. I hope it didn’t break the bank!
No it didn’t, or I would have held off regardless I just wanted to wait for my tax refund to be a bit cozier, but I had the money… just didn’t want to end up spending a lot more lol
You may still get hit with the tariff if it's shipped from overseas. In such a scenario, you're the importer and likely responsible for any duties and fees.
FYI tarrifs are not calculated at purchase. They're calculated when the device gets inspected by customs. Not out of the woods until it clears em if you don't have it in hand yet
Yep and miyoo and some others are thinking of doing the same.
Damn, I ordered one last week and the tracking shows it cleared customs 2 days ago.
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.