Breaking: Xbox and Microsoft reveal global price increases for consoles, accessories — and even games

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We warned you to stop buying our consoles, but you assholes just won't listen!

Hope everyone has the hardware they need. It's going to be bumpy road ahead for all of us.
 
I have the impression that our lives went downhill from the Pandemic onwards and things will only get worse and worse.

Prices are increasing worldwide, products are getting worse, quality of life is decreasing, people are overall unhappy and easy to anger.

The 2020s is turning out to be a nightmare of a decade.
 
Topher said:
When does this go into effect?
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Effective immediately.

Microsoft says "May 2025", which basically gives them until the end of the month to communicate and coordinate this with their retail partners.
 
Astray said:
Bro that PS5 Pro purchase has been paying in spades.


I think they will follow suit. They are very exposed on this retarded tariff policy. Same as most other gaming HW businesses.
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Unlike Microsoft, I think they planned to stockpile in the US, but we'll see. They could see this as an easy way to increase revenue and profit margin and see if people will buy for GTA6 regardless.
 
Dane said:
That's why i've said they are partially footing it, because companies are expecting some deal to happen before the worst case scenario.
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I just disagree that they are partially footing it at those kinds of tariffs. Would make infinitely more sense to stop shipping the consoles to the US until a deal is reached.
I suppose it is possible they aren't actually sending any additional stock and are just raising the prices of stock currently in the US for the time being.
 
Sakura said:
I just disagree that they are partially footing it at those kinds of tariffs. Would make infinitely more sense to stop shipping the consoles to the US until a deal is reached.
I suppose it is possible they aren't actually sending any additional stock and are just raising the prices of stock currently in the US for the time being.
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Because companies feel that completely stalling up instead of having a month loss is much worse outcome, they could also be doing some tricks to not get the whole bill though, but some companies like 8bitdo and a game publisher suspended sales operations to USA until the situation is solved.
 
iorek21 said:
I have the impression that our lives went downhill from the Pandemic onwards and things will only get worse and worse.

Prices are increasing worldwide, products are getting worse, quality of life is decreasing, people are overall unhappy and easy to anger.

The 2020s is turning out to be a nightmare of a decade.
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Every once in a while a shit decade comes along. I've been said things won't get better until the 2030's.
 
Dane said:
Because companies feel that completely stalling up instead of having a month loss is much worse outcome, they could also be doing some tricks to not get the whole bill though, but some companies like 8bitdo and a game publisher suspended sales operations to USA until the situation is solved.
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I would imagine a company like MS has more capacity to plan for this stuff in advance and to be able to pay storage fees for a ton of extra consoles sitting in warehouses. Higher prices would mean their inventory in the states would last longer too as sales slow down. A company like 8bitdo doesn't have the funds lying around to order a huge batch of products in advance to prepare for this sort of thing.
 
Sony has raised prices zero in the US so far. Now are are Mee tooing Sony before they even COPIED MS' greedy move? At the very least wait until the much smaller and poorer Sony raised their prices instead of jumping out in front and taking the brunt of the pushback.

Everyone who thinks this is tariff related, do you think when the trade war is over these prices will go down?

LOL, they won't.

Micrishaft is supposed to be supporting this console by paying for part of it. That's how a subsidy works and why we have had awesome consoles over the years. It wouldn't surprise me if the whole thing wasn't a big loss at MS already and they just don't like throwing good money after bad.

Here's the worst part. Next gen we have been promised a steam machine from MS as their main platform. With no subsidy and no 30% store commission, how much do you think that son of a bitch will cost? This move will doom the Series to obscurity outside of the US for at least the rest of this gen and in the US it will be significantly diminished. If GTA6 releases this year it will be glorious for Sony.
 
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Xbox has just committed suicide in the only market that still sold something, the base console is $100 more expensive than the PS5, the 2TB model is more expensive than the PS5 Pro, games are $80, it's a robbery on all levels.
 
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Team Andromeda said:
It's not like PC's haven't been affected. Long gone are the days when you could get really good cheap parts for the PC .
It's happened for almost everything from cars to food, to broadband, to the price of going to see a band at a concert

I think paying more than £70 is terrible, so bad for any real meaningful growth in the AAA game industry
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True, luckily the PC I own is probably even better then Xbox Series 2 and PS6, so I'm set for a bit.
 
cireza said:
Speaks a lot about the current worldwide economy and the rise of manufacturing costs. I am definitely not surprised though.
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Isn't this actually tariffs related?

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Holy fucking shitballs!

This is insane. RIP Microsoft console gaming. Its absolutely dead after this. What is happening in the world.

Switch 2 looking like a bargain. ( i kid)
 
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Man. Those console prices are insane!

I always had all three consoles, but at this rate I really need to decide where I am going to buy all my games. And with Microsoft making their games on Playstation there is only one answer. This is the end for Xbox and they know it.
 
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Sakura said:
I would imagine a company like MS has more capacity to plan for this stuff in advance and to be able to pay storage fees for a ton of extra consoles sitting in warehouses. Higher prices would mean their inventory in the states would last longer too as sales slow down. A company like 8bitdo doesn't have the funds lying around to order a huge batch of products in advance to prepare for this sort of thing.
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Yes that's very possible, having to bring a much bigger inventory and pay higher and longer standing storage fees and etc, some trickery in last case, and all rooted in the tariff hike. I don't like doom posting but regardless of what console someone is reading wants, they might as well do it fast before it spreads.
 
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__SteakDeck__ said:
Does this have to do with Tariffs? I'm already seeing people on ResetEra blame that and Trump.
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According to the blurb it was due to rising cost of development and market conditions. So maybe in part. Nintendo also said their prices weren't tariff related. I doubt these prices ever go down even if tariffs go away so this is Microsoft now.

It costs big money to make games in the US and especially in California where most of them are made. Everybody gets a slice and then you gotta pay for half the community just for hanging around. Every kind of bullshit cost and tax you can imagine times 100. Parking will be 20 bucks for a few hours in a big US metro like Denver in my anecdotal experience. Make a game in another country and you can minimize costs but hard to minimize costs in the US where everyone has such a high expectation from the company and low expectations from the employees, relatively. Look what Sony is paying for games made there.
 
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sncvsrtoip said:
xsx 2tb for 729 makes ps5 pro looks like bargain😂
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I mean, they said in 2020 that the Series X was it's "mid-generation refresh / pro console", released early. We all knew it was bullshit at the time, but now they're literally going to be competing on a somewhat level playing field price wise.
 
Wow. This is worse than I was expecting. They certainly were given some cover by Nintendo's pricing for their next-gen a few weeks ago. But these fucking tariffs are really awful.
 
Thick Thighs Save Lives said:
I'm not okay with any of the platform holders when they raise software prices, no matter who did it first (Sony, Nintendo, or MS). I edited the post out since it's not fair to just single out one platform holder when evidently they are all doing it.
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And certainly Xbox's increases were much easier for them to justify and put out there after Nintendo's announced plans to increase prices across the board for their new platform generation. No doubt it gave them quite a bit of cover. You can't blame Xbox when Sony did this a couple years ago, is likely to do so again given the tariff situation, AND Nintendo (traditionally lower cost than their competitors) are also going high and basically matching Xbox and PS pricing.
 
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$599 Series X! $729 Series X 2TB. It's more expensive than PS5 Pro!

As if sales weren't poor enough already.

$80 games too, thanks Nintendo.
 
Nydius said:
Already seeing the usual cacophony of "lol tariffs" on socials. Looks like tariffs will be the new corporate excuse for greed. Tariffs aren't making the hardware this much more expensive, and it certainly isn't a justification for raising game prices.

This is Microsoft (probably intentionally) putting the final nail in their hardware coffin and following Nintendo's new pricing model as a publisher.
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I'm already at the funeral!

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A 2TB Xbox Series X Galaxy Black costing more than a PS5 Pro ( For Now) is crazy 😭


Series S 1TB being more than PS5 digital ( For Now) is insanity 😭
 
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Tarrifs from my understanding only apply to the assembled BoM cost (i.e MS's break even cost), NOT the retail price. So if it costs MS $300 to build a Series X, the tarriffs are levied on $300, not $500.
 
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