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Updated XBOX Console Prices
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LordCBH
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I agree with this, but also how can you justify not raising prices when the memory costs have increased what, 5x in just like two years?
As much as I shit on Microsoft (it's a lot. It will always be a lot), I understand why they're raising the prices.
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
This is not the last price hike. This memory and storage crisis is going to get worse before it gets better. I'm just hoping someone starts significant more manufacturing ASAP.
PeteBull
Member
Just MS gaming division, and they can blame nobody but themselfs for that
diffusionx
Gold Member
XSX will cost more than what I paid for a PS5 Pro at launch..
that's NUTS
that's NUTS
peish
Member
we are entering Q2 earnings period, Sony will follow with a price increase within weeks, if not days.
Guess i am right, layoffs and price increases to keep shares prices high with AI narratives
StereoVsn
Gold Member
If they can, you just know price is going up again after the Holidays.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I don't think people were really buying Series X consoles to begin with
I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Member
And all of this thanks to MicroSlop IA and data centers.
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DeepEnigma
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Gambit2483
Member
Am I going insane? I thought they Already increased prices for SeriesX/S...?? Or is this for ALL regions now?
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JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
These consoles were produced LONG before the price raises.
Snowdonhoffen
Member
Didn't Sony just increased the prices like 3 months ago? they were the first ones if I remember correctly. I really doubt we are going to get another increase this year.
Microsoft just held off as much as they could
LordCBH
Member
Yup. I'm expecting they'll say something along the lines of "we're exploring the viability of current pricing in the market." And will follow that up next week with publicly announced price increases for all hardware.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Fuck it, bought a PS5 Pro 2TB.
I'm the dumbass who cancelled my pre-order because of the early reports of issues with PSSR. Oh well, it's not that much money.
I'm the dumbass who cancelled my pre-order because of the early reports of issues with PSSR. Oh well, it's not that much money.
LordCBH
Member
Were they though? Their manufacturing of Xbox consoles seems to have been very low the past few years, to the point most places I've been to just haven't had any in forever.
dorkimoe
Member
far as i can tell the only people pushing AI are the morons at the top who want to decrease workforce and increase profits
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
The Series X launched at $499 in Nov. 2020. In May 2025 they announced the price was going up to $599. Then in September 2025 it went up again to $649. Now it's going up to $799. So this is the third price increase announced in the last 13 months.
aliadiere25
Member
Phil Spencer is still to blame for this shit.
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
Why would you expect the opposite when production costs are skyrocketing and going to continue to do so? This is unlikely the last price hike for XBOX or the other consoles. There's also no way Helix releases anytime soon with the memory and storage shortage. 2029 seems more and more likely.
RyanEvans21
Member
Lucky for early adopters
I got my PS5 Pro with disc drive for under $400.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
I give this industry, on the whole, two more years before everything completely collapses.
Nintendo and most of the Asian devs will weather things fine. Some of the Western indies will be fine. Sony, Microsoft, and Western AAA? Good friggin' luck not taking catastrophic damage, but I think this is delayed consequences of a generally bad path the industry started tracking with since the late '00s.
Everything's finally catching up, and the results are disastrous. This isn't just about these Xbox price increases (they're part of it obviously): mass layoffs, hardware price increases, GTA6, studio closures, massively inflated budgets, massively inflated dev times, steep Hollywood influence creep, activist investors, stupid investors in general, trend-chasing CEOs, extreme standardization of best practices, government censorship, political activists & extremists grifting for influence, rising game costs for consumers, damaging M&As, stifled innovation, etc.
Everything's compounding, and the worst has yet to come.
Nintendo and most of the Asian devs will weather things fine. Some of the Western indies will be fine. Sony, Microsoft, and Western AAA? Good friggin' luck not taking catastrophic damage, but I think this is delayed consequences of a generally bad path the industry started tracking with since the late '00s.
Everything's finally catching up, and the results are disastrous. This isn't just about these Xbox price increases (they're part of it obviously): mass layoffs, hardware price increases, GTA6, studio closures, massively inflated budgets, massively inflated dev times, steep Hollywood influence creep, activist investors, stupid investors in general, trend-chasing CEOs, extreme standardization of best practices, government censorship, political activists & extremists grifting for influence, rising game costs for consumers, damaging M&As, stifled innovation, etc.
Everything's compounding, and the worst has yet to come.
PeteBull
Member
Basically nobody buys xbox worldwide nowadays anyways, bro
TKOFromTokyo
Member
I never thought I'd see the day where buying the console at launch of a generation was cheaper. I think that the video game industry needs to take a hard look and consider significant cuts to game budgets because the future looks rocky.
LordOcidax
Member
Series S now cost the same as Series X launch price is really crazySo they are basically done with the Xbox console .... wow.
The same Xbox series X that launched at $499 is now at $799 thats crazy!
ByWatterson
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C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
People called PS5 Pro crazy expensive and now they will be at same price as a 2020 Xbox Series X with only 1TB instead of 2 like the Pro
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Tobimacoss
Member
I don't understand the strategy here, if it was up to me, stop production on all Series S, and the Series X Disc. Only have Series X Digital on the market until Helix, and have 3 Console SKUs for Helix. Then let the chips fall where they may.
SegaSnatcher
Member
Oh go get fucked Xbox. Those prices are downright insulting.
LordOcidax
Member
At this point is not his fault… They can't do nothing.
I was reading about Apple's situation before seeing this news about the Xbox console price increase... It's not just the video game industry (PC/Consoles), it goes much further than that.
The thing is, with a 2.5x increase in component prices and the expectation that it will be 5x by the end of the year... things are looking dire. An Xbox Series X costs almost double what I paid for mine back then (€400).
We'll have to see how prices evolve in 2027, but certainly, with the current situation, the Helix/PS5 would be going for $1500+.
FIREKNIGHT2029
Member
MS literally saw Sony firing Bungie devs today and said hold my beer, geezus!
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Oh but it is. They are key players in the AI datacenter boom which helped cause all of this strife.
She (Asha) literally came from the AI department, lol.