{"id":956642,"date":"2025-08-21T09:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956642"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:25:07","slug":"us-trade-war-hits-gamers-sony-raises-ps5-prices-amid-global-tariff-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/21\/us-trade-war-hits-gamers-sony-raises-ps5-prices-amid-global-tariff-fallout\/","title":{"rendered":"US trade war hits gamers; Sony raises PS5 prices amid global tariff fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping tariffs on imported goods are rippling across the global economy, affecting industries from electronics to automobiles, and now, the video game sector is feeling the impact.<\/p>\n<p>Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced a $50 price increase for all PlayStation 5 models sold in the United States, effective August 21, 2025, marking the first major US price hike for the console. Similar increases were implemented in Europe earlier this year, highlighting how trade policies are translating into higher costs for consumers worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping tariffs on imported goods are rippling across the global economy, affecting industries from electronics to automobiles, and now, the video game sector is feeling the impact. Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced a $50 price increase for all PlayStation 5 models sold in the United States, effective August 21, 2025, marking the first major US price hike for the console. Similar increases were implemented in Europe earlier this year, highlighting how trade policies are translating into higher costs for consumers worldwide.<\/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-956642","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\/956642","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=956642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}