{"id":956579,"date":"2025-08-21T09:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956579"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:52:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:22:33","slug":"playstation-prices-rise-as-us-tariffs-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/21\/playstation-prices-rise-as-us-tariffs-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation prices rise as US tariffs bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony on Wednesday said it is bumping up the price of PlayStation 5 video game consoles by $50 in the United States due to a &#8220;challenging economic environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump hike the cost of goods brought into the US, leaving companies like Japan&#8217;s Sony to decide whether to pass that on to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Similar to many global businesses, we continue to navigate a challenging economic environment,&#8221; Sony Interactive Entertainment vice president of global marketing Isabelle Tomatis said in a post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony on Wednesday said it is bumping up the price of PlayStation 5 video game consoles by $50 in the United States due to a &#8220;challenging economic environment.&#8221; Tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump hike the cost of goods brought into the US, leaving companies like Japan&#8217;s Sony to decide whether to pass that on to consumers. &#8220;Similar to many global businesses, we continue to navigate a challenging economic environment,&#8221; Sony Interactive Entertainment vice president of global marketing Isabelle Tomatis said in a post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}