My admiration for your dedication to playing AoE on console will remain intact.
Breaking: Xbox and Microsoft reveal global price increases for consoles, accessories — and even games
ByWatterson
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cash_longfellow
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Imagine not being able to sell your shit….and then increasing the price 
cash_longfellow
Member
Probably so…but let's be real…these fuckers we're looking for a reason, and it just happened to fall into their lap.
DaleinCalgary
Member
Thats crazy, but tariffs will do that.
No price increase in Canada yet
No price increase in Canada yet
The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
Thats fine, I'll just not buy day one or buy from third party cuz its cheaper so they dont get shit. I hope they lose money.
Thaimasker
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It's not very opportunistc on the hardware side, If anything this will just further kill it. People were already barely buying it, now that it's more expensive people aren't gonna be thinking now is the time to buy.
On the software side it's more opportunistic.
Overall, both capitalistic greed for infinite growth and tariffs are at play.
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Quoted for truth. It really is.
I was thinking, I don't even need a gaming PC, but I'll probably buy one a few years down the road when the cross gen period of next gen ends. This way my PC will be strong and new enough to run whatever the equivalent to Expidtion 33 is at the time, and be an emulation box otherwise.
I've got enough stuff to last me a lifetime. These business practices and price increases are insane.
DaleinCalgary
Member
That's actually really funny.
NickFire
Member
Is he trying to start shilling for Sony when the pain of multi platform Xbox is still raw for him?
Draugoth
Gold Member
Made the right call, probably considering Sony will be increasing the price of that thing to $999
Astray
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Lol I have zero clue.
I generally think that a lot of media personalities say one thing in their media appearances, and then turn around and do the other in their private lives, so this may be that.
Microsoft barely gave their shills time to gloat about their semi-decent financial results lol.
Elginer
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Pepperidge Farms remembers
Dusktildawn48
Member
Nah, but I get it goes to $850 within the next 2 or 3 weeks.
Astray
Member
I will say that buying my PS5 Pro has been an excellent investment.
The efficiencies of being a late adopter are simply not there anymore. If you like something in tech then find a way to buy it ASAP imo.
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Draugoth
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Prices increased 20%, so yep, it wouldf be from $699 to $830-$850
Astray
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For real they think pc parts are immune to tarriffs.. also see so many pc people spend big on gpu then get a cheapo no name $20 psu and wonder why shit don't work properly.
Astray
Member
Everything is going up because of tariffs. The consumer does not win in a trade war.
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
They were taking a $100-$120 hit on every console sold. It wasn't worth it for them since they weren't selling hardware or software enough on their own platform.
I can somewhat understand the Series X (although still find it a bad move), but the Series S is ludicrous. I was expecting them to make a new Series S in a smaller form factor and cheaper price.
I hope people stop buying video game consoles so these companies focus on keeping prices down.
Luckily I picked up a refurbished digital Series X last week for Oblivion and paid $330.
ChorizoPicozo
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so, tariffs down, prices drop?
Unfortunatecookie
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If they're unwilling to subsidize the rising costs of manufacturing + development, that tells me they truly don't have faith in Xbox hardware making a comeback.
Disaster of a gen for them.
Disaster of a gen for them.
ZehDon
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Ok, so Sony raised their PS5 hardware prices two weeks ago. Does that tell you Sony doesn't have faith in PlayStation 5 hardware?
LordCBH
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You ain't wrong. AMD boards are more expensive than they should be. I say AMD because there's little to no reason to go Intel at this point. The cheapest AM5 boards I keep seeing at in the $130 range unless you want to get a board from a chinese company nobody has ever hear of, then you can save about $25.
Hell the board I bought like 2 years ago for $140 is now $250 new on Newegg.
LordCBH
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*laughs in shareholder*
GHG
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The stuff him and Tom Warren wrote at the time was all under direct instruction from Microsoft. Microsoft then went and quoted these goons in court documents, as if it were "external" validation/justification for what they were doing.
Puppets on a string.
Unfortunatecookie
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No. Context matters.
Xbox is in last place. You would expect them -- out of the big three -- to be the first company to come out with a bombastic press release that reassures potential customers that they won't be raising prices.
This hike tells me they've run the numbers, and they don't see them getting better.
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GHG
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Holy false equivalence.
Sony and Nintendo have the luxury of pricing power when it comes to their hardware.
In their current predicament, Xbox do not. May I also remind you that Xbox are under the Microsoft umbrella, a business who just reported a profit of $25.8 billion for the quarter.
If Microsoft as a business really saw any degree of importance in continuing to attempt to sell Xbox hardware then they would take the hit, they can more than afford it, especially given the paltry sales. If you're not seeing what the message is here, then really, you never will.
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Sooner
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The best console experience for GTA 6. And the next Halo game, the next Forza game, the next Gears game, etc.
DeepEnigma
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ZehDon
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... both those these posts don't make any sense, frankly. If Xbox raising its hardware prices is a sign of Xbox admitting its hardware performance sucks, then PlayStation raising PS5 hardware prices two weeks ago must also be the same. If anyone could absorb the cost, it would be the gaming company currently having its most profitable console generation ever, rather than one who hasn't declared profit figures in nearly 10 years because, frankly, they're probably small enough to warrant hiding. Not seeing the logic, folks.
GHG
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You're not seeing the logic because you don't want to.
Do you not understand what pricing power means?
GHG
Member
Why have you decided to cut out the key point I've made across the two posts I've written in response to you?
For goodness sake, just get that PC you've been rattling on about getting if it means you'll stop being irrational over all of this.
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UltimaKilo
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I have a hard time seeing Sony raise the price on the PS5 Pro given those machines are designed to be high margin, low volume consoles, unlike the standard PS5 which sells at a loss.No one buys this shit anyway.
No one buys their games either. All on gamepass.
This affects nothing.
But it does mean Sony is about to do the same and actually affect people who spend money.
I wonder if this means that next gen won't come for another 4 years, or if they target 2028. I personally would not mind a generation of more efficient, smaller consoles with a boat load of RAM and only 25-35% raw number gain over the PS5 Pro and get back to $299/$399.
Astray
Member
No. But tariffs going away likely means an end to this price inflation.
Rn we are not guaranteed that anyone keeps their prices as-is, even after the initial tariff wave.
Yeppp.
Microsoft didn't do any kind of holiday discounting etc in 2024. They are also the 1st company to do any kind of price increase in the US, at least to my knowledge (Sony has raised prices in multiple regions multiple times this gen, but almost never on the US).
It's very clear that they are retaining zero interest in selling their consoles.
And honestly, if not for reliable guys like
HeisenbergFX4
telling us they're still intent on releasing more HW, then I would probably have already assumed that Nadella nixed their plan.
laynelane
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Your post inspired me to do a little reading on pricing power and, yeah, MS definitely has low pricing power in this area. It may work out for certain games (CoD, for example) and possibly accessories (particularly controllers since many people prefer their version), but it won't for consoles. There's no way MS doesn't understand this either.
I warned that it was time to please the investors
Post in thread 'Tom Warren: Expect an Xbox Event in January' https://www.neogaf.com/threads/tom-warren-expect-an-xbox-event-in-january.1678624/post-269921651
Post in thread 'Tom Warren: Expect an Xbox Event in January' https://www.neogaf.com/threads/tom-warren-expect-an-xbox-event-in-january.1678624/post-269921651
Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
It's not just the tariffs. It's a devaluation of the currency, especially as it relates to technology. This is global..and no, it has nothing to do with Nintendo.
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Crayon
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Think I'm going to order one on amazon and sit on it through the return period. A lot can change in a month, these days.
edit: Done. It was cheaper than the "deal" I got on a 9070xt doing the same plan. We'll see if some poor bastard has to pay $500 for a used 6800 in a month. jfc this is all so fucking dumb.
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playbignbox
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The guy in this tweet is a "genius" for investing in a closed ecosystem, given all these precedents, as if Sony wasn't going to raise the price of its games, services and accessories soon, even if he bought the console before the increase.
There is only one solution to these practices, and it's called a PC.
If you want to "eat crow" from any console manufacturer, go to Nintendo, which has a list of exclusives that are not ported to justify the decision, plus the hybrid concept that is cool and different from a desktop PC.
Now, MS and Sony, being stuck in the ecosystem of these two without any exclusive quality (feature or game) in return is certainly a choice.
Iced Arcade
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Xbox raises prices of consoles, controllers and games worldwide, including in Canada
Canadian gamers are going to have to pay even more to play the latest Xbox titles as Microsoft announces global price hikes.
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Mibu no ookami
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It'll actually be very interesting to see if there is pushback on 80 dollar CoD...
Again, this is why you should always be creating good games, because you never know when a competitor will shoot themselves in the foot and give you an opening, but if you're not prepared to take it... your window closes.
Where is Battlefield? If I'm EA, I'm putting all my eggs in the basket to get Battlefield out in as good a condition as quickly as possible and definitely before the end of October.
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