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

729$ for a series x now in Canada haha wtf Microsoft

This just made my weekend purchase an out of this world deal. I bought a series x on market place locally for my son for 300$ CAD. The guy bought a highend PC and didn't need it anymore. I come back home, I notice that the controller is missing (he had taken it away to take out the batteries after showing me the console was working and forgot to put it back in the box). I sent him a message about the controller, he proposed to send me back 40$ for it which I accepted since I already had one for my PC here. Finally ended up paying 260$ CAD for the console.

Man, I can't believe this pricing, RIP xbox
 
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If this traffic related then why is the eu prices going up, seem like eu is bailing out the low us prices as usual.
That's what I'm wondering. Doesn't make sense why so many territories are affected.

They put the XSS out there, which was a budget machine to appeal to new audiences which after a few years was labelled a mistake and a sales failure, and now they look like they are completely giving up altogether with these prices.
 
I'm struggling to decide whether to get a 2tb Series X, or save $30 and get a PS5 Pro.
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But all jokes aside, this news just makes me feel like it's a matter of time before the PS5 Pro get a price increase as well. Makes me want to pull the trigger on one soon, but alas I'm out of the Country for a while longer.

Not thrilled about the $80 games as well, and I doubt Sony will be the only holdout in that regard for much longer.
 
This move doesn't make any sense to me, i suppose MS will sell some new consoles at these hiked prices, but not many.
Their ultimate goal is to push people to xCloud, so in theory, this is the way to do it.

Why pay $800+ for a console and DOOM: The Dark Ages when you can drop $20 on a Game Pass sub and play it on your tv?
 
I think it's pretty much expected sony will do some further increases.

Question is by how much?

They have stockpiled consoles allegedly, made some statements about duplicate supply chains and they most likely don't lose as much as MS do on a series x(phil said they lose about $100-$200 per console). So if they can do a $50 increase they might catch MS with their pants down, however with a bean counter hovering over playstation maybe not.
 
Yeah true, but you don't need to buy an Xbox to play them.
Exactly my point. The announcement that their games are raising in price later this year (to match Mario Kart) is buried in the bombshell announcement that their consoles are going up in price over $100 each.

In the long run, they're going to make way more profit on Call of Duty being an $80 game than they will by selling Series X consoles for $700 each.
 
Most likely this is just to soften the blow of them confirming that their first party games are moving to the $79.99 price point.
It's tariffs. Tariffs. None of the price increases across the industry happening this spring/summer should surprise anyone as long as these tariffs are happening. No one is going to eat the cost of the increased price of selling products from overseas in the US. It's just simple, easily predictable economics. The cost is passed on entirely to us as the consumers.
 
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Exactly my point. The announcement that their games are raising in price later this year (to match Mario Kart) is buried in the bombshell announcement that their consoles are going up in price over $100 each.

In the long run, they're going to make way more profit on Call of Duty being an $80 game than they will by selling Series X consoles for $700 each.
I can't wait for $1,000 next-gen consoles in 2027. Still cheaper than a PC but goddamn.
 
everyone is acting like Sony is not going to follow this up with their own prive hike, habibi it is a train and Sony always rides the last car
 
It's tariffs. Tariffs. None of the price increases across the industry happening this spring/summer should surprise anyone as long as these tariffs are happening. No one is going to eat the cost of the increased price of selling products from overseas in the US.

Aren't consoles and computing devices and their components exempt from the tariffs?

If this was due to Tariffs MS of all companies would have shouted it from the rooftops. They're a woke AF company. They'd use every opportunity to indirectly blame Trump.
 


Right now PS5 with Astrobot costs $150 less than a Series X and almost the same as a Series S :pie_thinking:

That's an insanely good deal and most likely very limited. Seems like Sony is extremely intent on getting existing hardware/stock into homes before their inevitable price hikes as well. Makes sense, curious to see how well this works.
 
You know I never really considered this but nothing is stopping them from making all their games stupid expensive in a bid to make gamepass more attractive and they own so much of the industry now.
In the very short term. Gamepass price increases are almost certainly coming.

And those prices increases are more frequent then standalone game price increases.
 
It's tariffs. Tariffs. None of the price increases across the industry happening this spring/summer should surprise anyone as long as these tariffs are happening. No one is going to eat the cost of the increased price of selling products from overseas in the US.
Please explain how tariffs are causing Microsoft (an American company) to sell Call of Duty (made by Activision, an American company) to increase the price of digital games that have no physical components subject to tariffs.

If anything, this is their time to finally put the nail in the coffin for physical game releases, now that they finally have the excuse they've been looking for all along to create a price gap between physical and digital games.
 
In the very short term. Gamepass price increases are almost certainly coming.

And those prices increases are more frequent then standalone game price increases.
They've increased the price of GP every year for three years now, and made the Day One games harder to attain, driving more people to the premium tier. Another increase is gonna make me Nope out, for sure. Getting tired of all the money-grubbing in console gaming this gen. And now with Nintendo's pricing next-gen I'm prolly be holding onto my Series X and eventually reluctantly get a Switch 2 for Mario, but otherwise I'm prolly done with consoles.
 
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.

I was asking because Best Buy prices had not been updated. Between the time I asked that question and now, it looks like every Xbox on their site has sold out.

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Aren't consoles and computing devices and their components exempt from the tariffs?

If this was due to Tariffs MS of all companies would have shouted it from the rooftops. They're a woke AF company. They'd use every opportunity to indirectly blame Trump.
No. Certainly not. GPUs and some other components were exempt, but it was quickly made quite plain that specific tariffs for them were coming as well, later down the road.
 
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Man that "forcing us out of our hobby" thread is really glowing, lol.

Really though, this is wild. $80 dollar for AAA and $50 for "smaller"? Crazy to think that $50 will be for something smaller, lol.
 
What a big brain moment.

Probably saw Sony upped their prices together with Nintendo, so they thought they could be cocky as well.

Difference is they aren't in a position to be able to do it.
 
At purple forum you can complain about the price increase buy you can't say the hardware is shit at this news lmao (which at the price point, it is. $350 for a Series S is absurd)

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Nintendo started it. Microsoft continues it. Sony is next. We can all laugh about it, but soon enough, the whole gaming ecosystem will be on board with the price hikes. Enjoy $50 GOTY titles like Clair Obscur while you can.
 
Nintendo set the trend. If you can get away with $80 games, others will follow suite. That's the business world in general. You just needed someone to make the move and make it seem normal.

The kicker is none of these companies are losing money or barely breaking even. They are making a ton of profit. They simply want MORE profit. Gotta appease Wall Street and the stock holders. It's a scam.
 
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Also can I point out how stupid it is for people (seeing it a lot on the Reset thread; dunno about here) going "Sony Too™"? How about just focusing on the company that's ACTUALLY announced their pricing changes, instead of pretending you're Nostradamus.

Because going "Sony Too™" isn't a justification for why Microsoft are doing it (or announcing plans to) right now. What a weak way to try justifying acceptance (or even tolerance) of these companies increasing prices as the gen goes on, factors notwithstanding.
 
Seems that PS5 Price increase reveal is scheduled for May 15th


729$ for a series x now in Canada haha wtf Microsoft

This just made my weekend purchase an out of this world deal. I bought a series x on market place locally for my son for 300$ CAD. The guy bought a highend PC and didn't need it anymore. I come back home, I notice that the controller is missing (he had taken it away to take out the batteries after showing me the console was working and forgot to put it back in the box). I sent him a message about the controller, he proposed to send me back 40$ for it which I accepted since I already had one for my PC here. Finally ended up paying 260$ CAD for the console.

Man, I can't believe this pricing, RIP xbox

Time to change hobbies at this point, might become a pornstar instead.
 
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That's $450 GameStop trade in value is now making a whole helluva lot more sense now.

In any case, this is just going hurt sales that much more.
 
bwahaha cant wait for their next-gen hybrid-pc-handheld-whatever pricing.
ps5pro - deal of the decade confirmed.
 
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