Supporting comments made earlier this year, US President Donald Trump has plans to enact additional tariffs on more than $200 billion in imported Chinese goods. Trump intends to raise existing tariffs from 10% to 25%, while also looking at other imports that don’t currently have tariffs imposed on them.
Trump said that the next round of Chinese tariffs will be on consumer electronics coming in from the country. He specifically included Apple iPhones and laptops, but game consoles manufactured in China could get caught up in this net too. Chinese manufactured products account for 61.6% of the consumer electronics imported into America. In 2017, the U.S. bought more than $522 billion worth of goods from China. While there are some concerns that tariffs on Chinese manufactured consumer electronics could end up getting passed on to the consumer, Trump minimized the effect that they might end up having. “I mean, I can make it 10 percent, and people could stand that very easily,” he said.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Trump said that the only deal he would take from China would be to open up to US competition. “The only deal would be [that] China has to open up their country to competition from the US. If we don’t make a deal, then I’m going to put the$267 billion additional (tariffs) on.” Trump is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 meeting in Buenos Aires this week. If no deal is reached during that meeting, he intends to impose tariffs of 10% to 20% on all remaining imported goods from China.
Many companies contract with Chinese factories to manufacture their goods. While Sony may not be based in China, the PlayStation 4s and other products manufactured in China still count as Chinese exports and are subject to any import tariffs. Whether or not those added fees will be passed onto consumers—or exactly how they’ll be passed on—remains to be seen.
[Source: Wall Street Journal Via Politico]
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What Do You Think of the Full PlayStation Classic Games List?
The full list of games has been revealed! Here's what we think of them.
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Annette Polis
Looking at both NA and JP versions of the PlayStation Classic, there's nothing on either that makes me need one. OK, maybe Parasite Eve, but a single game alone does not a purchase make.
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Cameron Teague
I think the Japanese lineup edges out the rest in terms of better games, though nothing on either lineup makes me have to buy it.
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Chandler Wood
I'm pretty disappointed in the final list. I think it hardly represents the classics of that era, and misses out on a lot of what I would consider to be the 20 essential games on the platform. Of course, many of those games are seeing re-releases, remasters, or even simply availability on the PSN as a PS One Classic.
Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy VII are great additions, but why Twisted Metal over Twisted Metal 2 (which was a far more classic PS1 game). Not to mention that there are plenty of games associated with the PS1 that are clearly missing, like Crash, Spyro, MediEvil, and many others that obviously were excluded in interest of their remake counterparts on the PS4.
The novelty of playing a bunch of classic games is kind of lost when the system isn't actually filled to the brim with the games that made the PS1 a classic.
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Jenni Lada
I think Japan has the stronger lineup of the two. In general, both are great. There are a lot of good games here and they really exemplify what set the PlayStation apart.
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Keri Honea
Most of those games I already own via the PS Store, so I'm really not seeing the point in investing in a Classic. It's great to see so many PlayStation-defining classics on the console, but their availability in the online store almost makes this mini-console moot.
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Lucas White
I have the dreaded "mixed feelings" about this one, chief. On one hand, it's wild to see Revelations: Persona, a game nobody cared about in the 90s, show up here due to how far Atlus has come since. On the other hand, that is not a game that comes to mind, as much as I'm into Shin Megami Tensei, as a "PlayStation Classic."
Stuff like that sort of exposes the problem with this thing, as many games more associated with the PlayStation brand from that era are either tied up in licensing, or even out and playable in recent remasters or remakes already, which is probably why something as prolific as Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is missing.That said there is plenty of cool stuff here, such as the original Rayman, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, and Mr. Driller, all of which being games that don't get nearly enough love today, and despite not being "AAA" in a sense are all milestone moments in gaming history.
