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Marketplace Morning Report

American gamers to feel the effects of Trump's tariffs

Marketplace Morning Report

American Public Media

News, Business

4.5808 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

From the BBC World Service: The impact of U.S. tariffs is already starting to hit consumers' pocketbooks. Imports from Japan to the United States have been subject to a 15% tariff for three weeks, and now Japanese electronics company Sony is bumping the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles by $50 — but only in the U.S. Also on today's show: concerns over AI psychosis and scrutiny over French mineral water.

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0:00.0

US gamers are the latest to feel the effects of President Trump's import tariffs.

0:06.8

Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

0:11.6

I'm Guy Kilty, infalli Anna Byrne. Good morning.

0:15.3

The impact of US tariffs are already starting to trickle down to consumers' pockets.

0:19.7

Imports from Japan to the US have been

0:21.4

subject to a 15% tariff for three weeks, and now Japanese electronics company, Sony, is bumping up

0:27.9

the price of its PlayStation 5 video games consoles by $50, but only in the United States. The BBC's

0:34.6

Katie Silver has more. Basically, they said that there's this challenging

0:37.8

economic environment. That's their words for it. It means that, for example, now their most

0:41.8

expensive, the pro version is going to cost about $750 US. Now, these hikes, of course, come as

0:48.7

many companies face these tariffs. We have also seen it from their rival Nintendo. They've just

0:53.9

recently increased the

0:54.9

price of the Nintendo Switch and many major companies having to warn about the impact of tariffs.

1:00.5

Those include Home Depot, Adidas and Nike all in the last couple of months.

1:04.5

The BBC's Katie Silver. Now, the effect of artificial intelligence on jobs and productivity

1:09.8

have been discussed at length, but what about the effect it's having on jobs and productivity have been discussed at length.

1:11.2

But what about the effect it's having on our minds?

1:14.4

Mustafa Sullyman, the head of AI at Microsoft, says he's losing sleep over increasing reports of what he calls AI psychosis.

1:22.4

The BBC's Zoe Kleinman joins me now on Marketplace.

1:25.2

Hi, Zoe.

1:26.0

Hi there.

1:27.0

Just run us through then exactly what Mustafa

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