{"id":108335,"date":"2016-10-20T12:56:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T10:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=108335"},"modified":"2016-10-20T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T12:28:42","slug":"south-african-gamers-cant-afford-to-wait-for-a-drop-in-hardware-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/108335-south-african-gamers-cant-afford-to-wait-for-a-drop-in-hardware-prices","title":{"rendered":"South African gamers can’t afford to wait for a drop in hardware prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rand took another hit recently\u00a0following\u00a0the announcement\u00a0that Pravin Gordhan<\/a><\/strong> would face fraud charges.<\/p>\n

While the effects of the jump\u00a0will only be seen months from now, South African retailers are already preparing for the hit.<\/p>\n

We spoke to Raru’s<\/a><\/strong> Neil Smith about the effect the jump will have on game and hardware pricing and whether South Africans should buy now:<\/p>\n

“If we knew how the Rand would fare over the next couple of months, we would be very happy as well.”<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately it is always a guessing game whether prices will rise or fall over the coming months.”<\/p>\n

In other words, South African retailers are in more or less the same limbo regarding the exchange rate as the average South African consumer.<\/p>\n

“The best we can hope for that the currency stabilises for the foreseeable future, which would enable the suppliers to have better forward cover in case of Rand instability.”<\/p>\n

So does that mean we should bite the bullet and buy our games and hardware now or should we wait for prices to drop?<\/p>\n

“As a gamer looking to spend money on hardware, I would think the best time is to do so now.”<\/p>\n

“The chances of prices coming down any time soon seems to be on the very slim side indeed.”<\/p>\n

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Now read: What Gordhan\u2019s fraud charges could do to South African tech and gaming prices<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s why you need to bite the bullet on that new game or graphics card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":108345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1097,22467,8679,12541,2163],"class_list":["post-108335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-interview","tag-neil","tag-pricing","tag-raru","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108399,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108335\/revisions\/108399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}