Sony to raise Playstation 5 price by 20% in Japan

[haunter]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/sony-raise-playstation-5-price-by-20-japan-2024-08-27

[chomp]

Context: The yen is at its lowest value in decades currently.

[kjkjadksj → chomp]

Time to hurt sales I guess. No way wages went up 20% to account for weak yen.

[bryanlarsen → kjkjadksj]

They haven't gone up 20%, but wages did go up 5% over the last year, which is a massive change for a country which hasn't seen significant wage hikes for ~30 years.

[kjkjadksj → bryanlarsen]

I wonder what that percent actually is after adjusting for inflation