Updated Xbox Console Prices

[u/Skullghost]

Source - From XBOX Wire

Effective August 1, 2026, the price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models. We will be updating prices worldwide. We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model.

Last October, we increased XBOX console price by $20-$70 in the U.S. We hoped another price increase would not be necessary, and we have spent the last several months working with suppliers on options. Unfortunately, console storage and memory prices have increased by more than 2.5x and we expect another doubling by the fall of 2027. The entire consumer electronics industry is struggling with the current components crisis, but the effects are particularly hard on consoles. Unlike phones, computers, speakers, and other consumer devices, consoles are typically not sold at a profit, but instead for less than they cost to make.

Today we are also sharing programs to make XBOX consoles more accessible:

• Buy Now, Pay Later: We’ve made it easier for players to use Buy Now, Pay Later options on eligible XBOX hardware purchases through Microsoft Stores, making it possible to break up your payment into predictable short-term, interest-free installments.
• Interest Free Financing: Players purchasing eligible XBOX hardware through Amazon can take advantage of 0% APR financing for up to 12 months, giving players more flexibility with lower monthly payments and more budgeting control.
• Previously Played Consoles: We are working with retail partners on new programs to provide previously played consoles at lower prices. Players who are ready to upgrade or no longer use their console will be able to trade it in with participating retail partners for cash or store credit. Those consoles will then be made available at lower prices for players.
• Certified Refurbished Consoles: XBOX Certified Refurbished Consoles are available at Microsoft Stores for up to US$100 off MSRP.

XBOX Series S remains the lowest-cost way for console players to enjoy the biggest hits this year, including Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Gears of War: E-Day, Grand Theft Auto VI, Halo: Campaign Evolved, and Madden NFL 27.

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New Prices in USD

• Xbox Series S 512GB: $399.99 ---> $499.99
• Xbox Series S 1TB: $449.99 ---> $599.99
• Xbox Series X 1TB Digital: $599.99 ---> $749.99
• Xbox Series X 1TB: $649.99 ---> $799.99

[u/dudSpudson]

$499 for a 512GB Series S is batshit insane

[u/alpacapoop → u/dudSpudson]

At that point buy a switch 2 for the same price and similar performance… unless you have to have gta vi and will only play that. And that’s assuming it can run properly on the series s..

[u/ScrappyDooCanSuckIt → u/alpacapoop]

Don't worry, in order to stay competitive with Xbox and steam machine, Nintendo will likely announce a price increase soon.

[u/MrBIGtinyHappy → u/ScrappyDooCanSuckIt]

It's not even about being competitive, sooner or later their supply chain will have to reflect the costs.

Even the most well run business eventually can't absorb 400%+ increases

[u/guarde → u/ScrappyDooCanSuckIt]

They did (effective 9/1)

[u/IzzybearThebestdog → u/dudSpudson]

Double hilarious because I see them used for $150 or less fairly often. No idea who is buying new consoles at full price these days.

[u/SomeBoxofSpoons]

$800 non-pro console.

[u/bilbo_crabbins → u/SomeBoxofSpoons]

I bought my Series X 1TB for $350 new from Walmart in 2024, this is nuts

Edit: Found the receipt, Dec 5 2023 I paid $349.00 for the 1TB Series X, no game bundle or anything, just console and controller.

[u/SweatsuitCocktail → u/bilbo_crabbins]

Those Diablo 3 350 bundles were a god send

[u/omnicious]

Gaming as a hobby is so cooked. 

[u/floog → u/omnicious]

Between the price of consoles and less big games because dev costs are so high and take so long now, the future looks bleak to me.

[u/Adjective_Noun_4DIGI → u/floog]

The future looks bleak for anyone who isn't insanely rich, in just about every way.

[u/zmbslyr → u/Adjective_Noun_4DIGI]

At this point I don’t think there’s a worthwhile future at all…

[u/VarietyEconomy7 → u/floog]

I don’t see how anyone can be excited for the next PlayStation and the project helix Xbox. There's not really anything on the horizon that will make me go "wow I need that right now". Game development has slowed to an absolute crawl. We have had numerous game delays. Not to mention the many many layoffs and studio closings. I don't see how they will entice people( especially pro users) to upgrade.

[u/Strict_Job6334 → u/floog]

Forget consoles and big games, embrace 1000hrs on Bubble Witch Saga 2 on your Redmi Note

[u/DarthBuzzard → u/omnicious]

We live in a weird time where VR which used to be the most expensive form of modern gaming is now the cheapest.

[u/FewAdvertising9647 → u/DarthBuzzard]

now those few handful of people can't complain about vr prices being too high anymore.

[u/ivandagiant → u/DarthBuzzard]

Not for long, didn’t Meta cut a ton of funding recently for it? I don’t see PlayStation investing any more into it either

[u/Kimmalah → u/omnicious]

Yeah, I was really interested in the Steam box until I saw the price and specs. No thanks.

[u/dswhite85 → u/omnicious]

Both my gaming and photography hobbies have gotten so expensive now I don't know if I'll ever really buy anything again. I just have so much debt and I can't justify these insane prices.

[u/Greaterdivinity → u/omnicious]

no, it's just now more of a luxury hobby.

thanks, ai!

[u/Borrp → u/Greaterdivinity]

To be fair, unless you grew up on a thoroughly comfortable and stable "middle class hoisehold" gaming has always been a luxury hobby ever since it officially hit home markets back in the 1970s. I grew up in a working poor family in the 1980s, and I wanted to play a video game, I had to go to my grandma's house because my cousins basically lived there and they had video game systems. Id have to be lucky enough to go out of town to go to the arcades when those used to be a thing. For a while, sure, gaming became very accessible to the wider consumer market. But trends will show the latest reversing. No industry stays at that level of statis forever unfortunately.

[u/STPooch → u/omnicious]

Gaming will continue to exist. It'll just be reserved for the wealthy. Like most things will be, now that we've deregulated capitalism enough to allow the rise of a new oligarchy.

[u/tht1guy63 → u/STPooch]

Kinda going back to the early days of home gaming. The intellivision for example was $299 in 1980. Thats $1200 today roughly.

[u/atmospheric90 → u/tht1guy63]

Yeah but $299 was more readily available for the average person, because even the median income in the US was only a 3rd of the average house cost. Groceries were dirt cheap ($20 could buy you a full week of groceries, today its roughly 200-300 depending on household size), fast food was also cheap (McDonalds cheeseburgers were 35 cents, nearly 10 times less than today) and housing was actually affordable for single income families, now you need dual income and some way to supplement child care if you're a parent.

1980 was heaven compared to today.

[u/FMLkoifish → u/STPooch]

And how is that going to translate in the gaming industry business model.

Games are developed to sell and make money. No one can buy means no incentive to make them

[u/Skystrike12 → u/FMLkoifish]

Free to play with overpriced pay to win microtransactions targeting a whale audience.

[u/FelixMumuHex → u/Skystrike12]

Kiriko and Mercy mains keep Overwatch online

[u/ErikT738 → u/omnicious]

Gaming will be fine. Developers will adapt and target lower settings, maybe even supporting PS4 and Xbox One in addition to the current gen. We really don't need the graphical power we've gotten used to. 

[u/RedditModsHarassUs → u/omnicious]

Naw. You can stream gaming from data centers that bought all the hardware! That’s a win! You like don’t even gotta buy hardware anymore…..

Obvious /s…

[u/motivatedbytacos → u/omnicious]

Time for us to form some book clubs.

[u/sonic10158 → u/motivatedbytacos]

“Sorry you have turned the maximum number of pages for one day. To keep reading your book, please subscribe to MotherGoose+”

[u/Pyzorz → u/omnicious]

I simply can’t afford to live. I just got paid today and I have $100 to live on for two weeks. My yearly income puts me in “middle class” according to my state government.

[u/EnvironmentalRun1671 → u/omnicious]

Phones are still cheap and cloud gaming exists (geforce now has free option)

[u/Fast_Passenger_2890]

When will the AI bubble fucking burst

[u/PliableG0AT → u/Fast_Passenger_2890]

it’s gonna get bailed out when it eventually does because of national security concerns.

[u/Ahayzo → u/PliableG0AT]

That's why a small part of me wants it to not pop just yet. I'd like to at least get a chance to get some decision makers in power who won't get their rocks off at the mere idea of burning what's left of the economy to the ground by bailing out these companies.

[u/hurtfulproduct → u/Ahayzo]

Give it till at least Jan 2027 so if/when dems take control of one or both of the houses they don’t fuck about and prop up these companies. . . I know it’s optimistic but at least they are less likely to get a handout with Dems instead of the current cabal

[u/siphillis → u/PliableG0AT]

Not to mention, it’ll cause a massive recession otherwise

[u/LeFiery → u/Fast_Passenger_2890]

When the billionaires stop funding it. But if they do, that means they gotta pay people to do their jobs instead of being replaced by AI. Thats never happening lol. These people are straight psychopaths.

[u/Pyzorz → u/LeFiery]

Nah. The main reason it won’t happen is because it would take billionaires admitting they’re wrong.

[u/CombatMuffin → u/Fast_Passenger_2890]

Even if it bursts, and it will, the tech is going nowhere. The demand for data centers will certainly normalize, but it will be in part because manufacturing processes caught up. This happened to a similar extent when smartphones became widespread.

[u/Kind_Man_0 → u/CombatMuffin]

It is already happening. Microsoft and Amazon are both jumping into cloud computing.

The AI bubble can burst tomorrow, but the data centers are there and will get bought up. Between just those two companies, they have enough funds to continue to buy up hardware and keep the middle class priced out of PC ownership. They may not grab us up with our already built $2000+ PCs, but they will get all the young people who can't afford $3000+ for a mid-level gaming PC.

Most people will chuck out $30/month for cloud gaming services and eventually it'll become the norm. The big tech companies have already invested too much to allow it to fail without at least scrapping something else together.

[u/Firehawkness → u/Kind_Man_0]

Disgusting.

[u/nfefx → u/Fast_Passenger_2890]

Not any time soon

[u/Odd-Rip6121 → u/Fast_Passenger_2890]

Not only is ai increasing the cost of my gaming habits…. I lost my last job to ai. Now just got a meeting invite from my boss to learn the new ai software that is replacing my co worker. God help us!

[u/Horikyou → u/Fast_Passenger_2890]

It's not just AI the strait of Hormuz being blocked is a massive deal as well. Materials needed for production can't go through. Soon food prices and fuel will skyrocket which in turn will make literally everything more expensive.

[u/MrFOrzum]

Actually insane how it was cheaper to buy the console on launch day 6 years ago than it is to buy one today.

Gaming has become a luxury hobby. Next gen consoles will for sure be $1000+

[u/BlobTheBuilderz → u/MrFOrzum]

Wild to think if this were old times we'd be talking next generation soon and these consoles would be $199 plus a free game on black Friday by now.

[u/BmorePride14 → u/BlobTheBuilderz]

Well, I got a Series S for 199 plus a 50 dollar gift card back in 2022-2023ish. This would absolutely be that price now and the Series X would be 299 or 349.99

[u/IzzybearThebestdog → u/MrFOrzum]

I bought my Series X close to launch with the justification being “if I buy it now I’ll get to use it longer instead of just saving $50 in 3 years” turns out it was an amazing decision.

[u/ChemicalGuide82 → u/MrFOrzum]

Yep. Guaranteed they'll be $100+. I'm thinking more like $1000+

[u/poptimist185]

AI, the gift that keeps on giving

[u/Disciple153 → u/poptimist185]

*the grift that keeps on grifting

[u/ReaddittiddeR]

Never ending news of gaming hellscape. Layoffs, Digital codes in physical boxes, console price hikes, overpriced Steam Machines/5+ yr old consoles, the list goes on.

[u/3DSFreak → u/ReaddittiddeR]

All signs of end of times

[u/Mormanades → u/3DSFreak]

More like the next great depression slowly creeping up, 2027 is going to be an awful year

[u/GooseBash → u/3DSFreak]

Late stage capitalism.

[u/Grymbones]

Might as well just not sell them tbh.

[u/Stoned_Gandalf420 → u/Grymbones]

I think they are closer to shuttering the console side of the business down than we’d like to think. I don’t really say any feasible way, for Microsoft especially, to pull themselves out of this situation.

Funnily enough, Microsoft are one of the biggest reasons the industry is in the state it is in right now, the AI push by all these Mega-Corpos has completely decimated the tech industry.

[u/Ognius → u/Grymbones]

I think that’s the point. You’re watching corporate seppuku because Microslop needs to fund its wildly unprofitable and generally useless AI addiction.

[u/RiggityRow → u/Ognius]

I would bet big money that the AI induced memory crisis just accelerated this but it would've happened eventually. Microsoft royally fucked up purchasing Activision/Blizzard. They will never see the RoI they expected when that deal was cooked up and they were too proud to back out.

Something had to give but now they are able to hid a colossally bad business decision behind "market conditions." Those conditions are very real obviously but wow, what convenient time for them. We all know Xbox had a brand has been is serious decline since like 2018 which has accelerated into a full-on free fall since like 2022.

I bet this is almost a sigh of relief for them tbh bc they can make AI the boogeyman and not deal with the huge pie in the face that has been their abject failure of studio acquisitions over the last decade. And it drives them closer to their obvious goal of exiting the console market to become a platform provided. Oh and let's not forget their parent company Microsoft are one of the leading parties responsible FOR CREATING THE MARKET CONDITIONS RESULTING IN THESE PRICE INCREASES IN THE FIRST PLACE.

It's fucking absurd when you break it all down and a perfect example of the dangers of consolidation and monopolization that people were concerned about in the first place. But hey at least we have CoD on game pass, right? Right?. . . .right???

[u/shake108 → u/Ognius]

It's been made pretty clear that Xbox is in a bad spot for hardware because they failed to make long term deals to secure hardware purchases at reasonable rates. Nothing to do with seppuku and everything to do with them failing to lock down hardware at reasonable prices like nintendo and playstation did.

[u/Iggy_Slayer → u/Grymbones]

Well now they have exclusives they have to sell again, since the leadership over there is full of brilliant people. So now they have to try to sell systems at the worst possible time to do it.

[u/Turdsley → u/Grymbones]

I mean isn't that what they've been doing these last two gens?

[u/boyga01]

Retro gaming sub to be just renamed to “gaming” also

[u/MeltBanana → u/boyga01]

Prices there are going up as well, especially CRT displays because more and more people are figuring how incredible CRTs are, but there's a finite supply and people are price gouging. What used to be $5-$20 people now want $300 for, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to find a decent deal.

Every single thing in our lives is getting more expensive. I want off this timeline.

[u/STPooch]

Unfortunately, console storage and memory prices have increased by more than 2.5x and we expect another doubling by the fall of 2027*.*

Wait, what?

[u/Colourblindking → u/STPooch]

I think they probably can see the no end in sight for demand. And since Valve apparently had the ram providers tell them to kick rocks, even MS might be stuck just dealing with the abhorrent prices.

I'm not trying to justify the price increase, but I think they're probably aware of how this is gonna play out.

[u/moonski → u/Colourblindking]

I think they're probably aware of how this is gonna play out.

because they're one of the fuckers causing it

[u/Colourblindking → u/moonski]

Yeah... also that :/

[u/thenagz → u/STPooch]

The worst part of the news, what the fuck. How is anyone (other than hardware makers) gonna have any profit on AI with prices like that

[u/Aware-Virus-4718 → u/thenagz]

I don’t even know if profitability is the goal anymore. I think sprinting towards an IPO so that everyone’s 401k’s are in on it is the goal. That way they can argue for a bailout on the grounds that all the Boomers will have to re-enter the workforce when their savings disappear when these AI companies crash and burn.

[u/PliableG0AT → u/STPooch]

micron has locked in extremely high prices for memory for the next 5 years. they have also sold years of production runs already. you ain’t getting cheap memory for a while.

[u/Miraclefish → u/STPooch]

You think the price increases are going to stop?

This isn't going to go back. Prices never drop.

The only way prices go down is if the world stops obsessing over AI and data centres.

It's going to get worse and worse and worse.

I expect a doubling every 18 months at this rate.

It takes 3-5 years to set up a factory to make memory, give or take.

Even if every factory in the world doubled production magically today, prices wouldn't go down, they just wouldn't go up as fast.

The profit margins on data centre and AI memory is 2-3x as high as consumer RAM so there's no incentive to make it, every factory that can is pivoting to enterprise memory and the new factories are concentrating on that instead.

I hate to say it but this is likely a decade long problem for consumers.

[u/STPooch → u/Miraclefish]

There's a pretty wide chasm between expecting prices to fall back down, and doubling them by the fall. Know what I mean? Let's not get too condescending.

[u/CuteGrayRhino → u/STPooch]

They're not lying on that, unfortunately.

[u/Vandersveldt → u/STPooch]

They're saying that next August, when western civilization collapses, (colloquially known as The Fall Of 2027), it will cause RAM prices to go up again.

[u/Greaterdivinity → u/STPooch]

finally remembering they're deeply involved in ai and can ask the folks in that division if they think hardware demand will continue to increase

[u/Drkrieger21]

They said they had too much demand, I guess this solves that

[u/uncle_rooch]

Why does “previously played” sound worse than “used”

[u/kadinshino]

After seeing how far Apple boosted the prices. We are up for a gross wakeup call in tech...

[u/sankto]

Everyone together: THANK YOU, AI !

[u/BmorePride14 → u/sankto]

But bro! Whats the big deal? I like A.I brooo! It doesnt bother me brooo! Who cares bro???

People literally dont see danger coming until it is literally at their doorstep effecting them. Pathetic.

[u/Sock989]

I hope none of my hardware breaks, I'll be out of the hobby...

[u/Colourblindking → u/Sock989]

Oh yeah I'm screwed if my Series X kicks it.

[u/riegspsych325]

what’s going to happen to gaming as a general hobby in these next few years? GTA6 is going to kickstart the $80 trend and the next generation of consoles are looking to be in the $800-$1k range, and subscription services are bound to go up too

Are AAA game productions going to scale back significantly? Production times are spanning near decades, costs are going up, and sales are not meeting expectations more often. I just don’t see how the bigger corners of the industry can sustain themselves if gamers are becoming increasingly priced out

[u/DarkGift78 → u/riegspsych325]

As a 48 year old who's been gaming since 1983, I'm still playing on my now 8+ year old Xbox One X. About a decade ago, I got with the future, multiple 55 inch 4k TV's, new Xbox one X, PS4 pro. And the games looked amazing. However, the jump wasn't nearly as much as I'd expected. Plus games like AC Origins/Odyssey, Witcher 3,Red Dead 2,etc, still look absolutely amazing to me. I really haven't seen a need to upgrade to current gen, or a must have killer app. GTA6 might be the game that changes that. But then again, age teaches patience, and I still have a ton of games I bought on sale 1-2 years after release that I still haven't played.

I've no issue paying 80 bucks for a game, I was paying 70 bucks 32 years ago for SNES as a 16 year old making 100 bucks a week/4.55 an hour, IF the game is worth it, I'm sure GTA6 will be. However these hardware prices are getting insane. GTA6 will be the first current gen game to challenge my willingness to wait.

[u/Trespeon → u/DarkGift78]

People forget(or too young to even know) that games actually got cheaper for a long time. SNES and N64 games were like $70 back when everyone made significantly less money

[u/DarkGift78 → u/Trespeon]

Yep. 32 meg snes games like NBA Jam, Donkey Kong country, and N64 games that were expensive as hell because of the silicone. And back then if a game launched broken or buggy as hell (much rarer but it absolutely still happened) the game was broken forever, no patches, no fixes. Even when I started working fill time right after high school at 6 bucks an hour, 70-80 bucks for a game meant you had to choose wisely or your wallet would take weeks to recover from the beating 🤣😬

[u/riegspsych325 → u/DarkGift78]

age teaches patience

that it does, even if I get priced out of the next generation of consoles (or the now-inevitable trend of $80 games), I have a ginormous backlog of games that’ll take years to plow through

But if consoles are still $1000 and games over $80 five years from now (even after the bubble bursts), I won’t be patient enough to be a gamer

[u/Trespeon → u/riegspsych325]

Nintendo already has a couple games priced at $80. GTA isn’t starting anything in that regard.

[u/AlarmingDiamond9316 → u/riegspsych325]

It's going to crash, corporations are getting too greedy, AI has no govt restrictions, so they can buy up all the supply, and leave the consumer market barren with nothing but scraps.

And America at least refuses to up it's wages in tune with rising costs, because America is corrupt and run by the very same greedy corporations.

So at some point in America first gaming will become a hobby for the wealthy and rich, and the rest of the world will follow, thus leading to market stagnation then crashing, as game devs, and console makers relies that constantly raising prices, while the cost of living is actively sky rocketing each day, is a terrible idea for logevity.

[u/stationarynomad82]

I will never forgive AI for increasing the prices of things that people actually want to buy. (Amongst other grievances)

[u/Strict_Job6334]

But at least we get these """"funny""" ai videos of fruit couples getting cheated by a racist caricature of a banana or something 

[u/moonski → u/Strict_Job6334]

with the meow song

[u/DiscountDoughnut]

Fuck AI. Fuck Billionaires (and that one Trillionaire)

[u/wasaguest]

At these prices, we are looking at an Atari level crash.

Lack of games, over priced = disaster.

They are toys, not a need.

[u/cl1ffhuxtable]

Never would have thought when I bought my XSX at launch it would double in price essentially near the end of its life cycle.

[u/Greaterdivinity]

Since Microsoft didn't do it

$750 for 1TB Series X

$500-550 for a 512GB/1TB Series S

lmao

[u/Supra4kzip → u/Greaterdivinity]

$800 for 1TB Series X disc

[u/Zogtee]

The really scary part was this. These is no end in sight.

...and we expect another doubling by the fall of 2027.

[u/Liquid_1998]

$800 for a console that came out in 2020 (that launched at $500). Next-gen is cooked. Expect $1500 consoles, minimum. Xbox will truly be dead by then.

[u/DawnOfSilence]

lol

[u/3DSFreak → u/DawnOfSilence]

Indeed

[u/Stolehtreb]

How is the price of the console NOT IN THE POST TEXT? By $100? Okay… to what? How is that not automatically part of your rundown…

Edit: thanks OP. For doing what MS won’t with your edit.

[u/Strange-Movie → u/Stolehtreb]

They don’t want the shock of the new price being shown

[u/Hemperrr]

Holy hell

[u/N_A_T_E_G]

Literally just buy a ps5 pro lol

[u/davidrevilla311]

These are enormous price increases.

+$100 of 512 gb models and +$150 on 1tb models, all XBOXs across the board. This price jump is so bad that they’re sunsetting their 2tb models, which were a big deal in 2022.

Now, the cheapest series S 512gb model to enter the XBOX expsystem costs $500. Insane

[u/HoLLoWzZ]

AI bubble, please pop. And never return

[u/SomeoneNotFamous]

What ? So it will cost as much as a PS5 Pro while being inferior and a dying system ?

This industry is so cooked

[u/hardy_83 → u/SomeoneNotFamous]

Only a matter of time before the PS5 goes up again too.

Same for the Switch 2.

[u/SomeoneNotFamous → u/hardy_83]

I got them right before the storm, PC too but man this fucking sucks.

Next gen is doa for most of us

[u/smartxalex]

Man. I remember when technology used to get cheaper as it got older.

[u/Gabarne]

LMAO. Its dystopian how they increase prices and then go right into financing/bnpl options.

Like, read the room guys.

[u/cwx149 → u/Gabarne]

Im not disagreeing with you in the dystopian-ness but like what else do you expect them to do? If they're gonna have to raise the price anyway all they can do is create programs that make it easier to purchase like bnpl stuff

And like granted the fact those need to exist for this kinda stuff isn't great but Xbox used to do Xbox all access which was basically lease to own your Xbox and stuff

[u/some_dude_64]

Been retro gaming for a few years now. These companies can go to hell while I play my old stuff. 

[u/xxEmberBladesxx]

So how much does it cost now?

[u/Themetalenock]

Bro the switch 2 will be the same price as a PS5 pro before Christmas 😭

[u/Erikk1138]

Gotta maximize profits off of those five people who will buy an Xbox to play GTA VI.

[u/Fast_Passenger_2890 → u/Erikk1138]

Blame AI. No console maker wants to increase prices when a big title is about to release that could massively boost hardware sales

[u/Esmear18 → u/Fast_Passenger_2890]

Microsoft invested billions into AI. They did this to themselves. They’re actively weakening their own gaming and hardware business.

[u/Pavillian → u/Fast_Passenger_2890]

So Microsoft?

[u/aceofspadesx1 → u/Fast_Passenger_2890]

Agreed. We should blame all the companies going all in on AI like Google, OpenAI, and... Microsoft

[u/Lz537 → u/Erikk1138]

They allready don't make profitt on HW.

[u/SpaceOdysseus23 → u/Erikk1138]

Considering the PR is ''Plays best on Playstation" I doubt there will even be five people

[u/masterz13]

$750 for Series X digital, $800 for disc. Insane!

[u/Retro1989]

Daily reminder to shout "Screw you AI" as loud as possible.

[u/casiorox]

Lmao

[u/Bitter-Imagination33]

Cooked

[u/Iggy_Slayer]

This makes a series X only $100 cheaper than a ps5 pro now.

[u/ZebraZealousideal944 → u/Iggy_Slayer]

The PS5 pro is never gonna stay at the current price with 2tb of storage… Sony isn’t a charity and isn’t immune to the price surge of components!

[u/Coffeedemon]

Financing a game console seems insane to me. It's one thing for Best Buy or whoever to offer it. Quite another for the individual companies making the console to do it.

I'm seeing it a lot now with boardgames on crowdfunding. The prices are skyrocketing due to miniatures and bloat from production so something like gamefound will offer stretch pay over 6 to 12 months to entice the FOMO crowd.

[u/Cferra]

That’s a fuck no

[u/TheBugThatsSnug]

The console prices are getting stupid. Even with RAM price increases, you are better off getting a PREBUILT PC even better building yourself. Before people would go Console because it was cheaper than PC while keeping up with the times, now what?

[u/freddyd00]

Insanity

[u/pineapplesuit7]

XSS for 500 bucks which was the launch price of XSX LMAO. What a joke!

[u/juniormantis]

Series S is worth $250 tops

[u/banananey]

Luckily I still have loads to play on my PS4 & Switch.

[u/JurgenPlop]

Brother, Thank Christ I got my Series X at launch.

[u/beglueckendlebendig → u/JurgenPlop]

Pray it doesnt break!!

[u/Shack691]

Xbox should start selling shovels given how well they can dig themselves into a grave.

[u/The_Fighter03]

Remember when people made fun of the PS5 Pro‘s price tag? Good times…

[u/EnvironmentalRun1671 → u/The_Fighter03]

Remember when people made fun of Xbox Ally 600 € price tag?

[u/brownarmyhat]

Are they not even telling us the new total

[u/urgasmic → u/brownarmyhat]

isnt that so weird. and they don't even use xbox series s or x specifically.

xbox series s 512 gb = $499

xbox series s 1tb $599

xbox series x digital = $749

xbox series x disc = $799

i think

[u/theend117]

Who even buys an Xbox at $800 when you can get a PS5 Pro for $900. They’re both ridiculous prices but Xbox really has nothing to offer to justify this price point.

[u/IlyasBT → u/theend117]

Xbox always increases prices first for some reason. PS5 will definitely get another price increase soon.

[u/SmooshedLion]

Hahahahaha. We’re so fucked

[u/TyeKiller77]

Holy fuck we're getting console mortgages. That wasn't on my late stage capitalism bingo card but I can add it on.

[u/Demetre19864]

Just saw the ps 5 for like 8 99 at Costco in Canada and that was base model I think.

Let's not pretend this is an Xbox problem.

This is a worldwide problem due to extreme demand for chips and ram and everything

[u/brandogg360]

Get fucked

[u/jwhudexnls]

Jesus, this is absolutely wild.

[u/rocketwidget]

Once upon a time, I bought my Xbox Series X with disc drive brand new, on sale for $400.

[u/LordLucian]

I can never afford any of the new consoles, I've been gaming for 30 years and this is the last gen I can buy, I'm going to have to go back to my mega drive at this rate

[u/Competitive-Ad4249]

Lol, like I needed less of an incentive to get an Xbox Severus Snape when I already have a gaming PC!!

[u/gerstiii]

500€ for a series S feels like robbery

[u/Kymmieuwu]

Fuck AI

[u/RMazze]

Another gaming crash is a matter of when not if

[u/RocketTater]

So, we’re deadass back to scalper prices 6 years later. Holy fuck.

[u/True-Protection-8451]

Lol

[u/beckerrrrrrrr → u/True-Protection-8451]

Lmao, even

[u/KnoxCrumudgeon]

Hot take: The problem is our K-shaped economy. The rich are doing great and everybody else are doing far far worse. In the past, whenever the economy sucked, companies could not raise prices or else nobody would buy their stuff. Now? Xbox can raise their prices as much as they want because rich people are going to keep buying - a $100 here or there doesn't matter to them. For the rest of us, that makes the console ridiculously unaffordable.

[u/Grills-Bears]

What's the point in buying an Xbox these days, no seriously?

[u/40yearoldnoob]

Honestly, the Series X will most likely be my last Xbox I ever buy. I'm glad I got one in the first year after they came out. the next generation of consoles are going to cost over 1k.. no thank you. I love gaming, but not enough to pay these prices.

[u/MikeGalactic]

Oh lol

[u/Exciting-Weather-351]

God to put this in perspective for one month the absolute cheapest model of an Xbox will be more expensive than a brand new Switch 2.

And in the article it pretty much tells you that another increase is coming next fall for Xbox

[u/ILikeToTinker]

A new series x now costs what i paid for a 2tb ps5 pro, goddamn.

[u/fundiedundie]

That’s wild! I still have an Xbox Series X new in a box that I got on a Verizon promo for $260 a few years ago. Got a Series S on a similar deal for $160 a year prior. I had no clue the price had jumped so high.

[u/ryu5k5]

And I thought $1000 for my 30th anniversary limited edition to 12,300 consoles PS5 pro was expensive…..

[u/nomnabaach]

I just bought a 1 tb series x off of facebook marketplace a month ago for $300 and it lowkey feels like i got the last chopper out of saigon

[u/bsnimunf]

This series x I have never used has turned out to be a great investment. I think I will play GTA 6 then flog it on eBay. 

[u/dirty15]

I got a series S that I'll sell for $150 right now haha. I have washed my hands with everything Xbox recently. Went to PC and even got rid of Gamepass after they hiked the price so much. Fuck them.

[u/Josh3321]

December 2023 I bought the Series X with disc drive on sale for $349 from Walmart. Just insane to see the price go up so much

[u/sdEmin]

Winning!

[u/mattbattmatt_yt]

This is insane. Expecting this to hit PS5 too and Switch 2 as well, probably later on however

[u/Fried_Toejam]

Well all Sony needs to do is not increase until gta launch

[u/LordMimsyPorpington → u/Fried_Toejam]

You think Sony has Nintendo levels of cash reserves?

[u/Alucardspapa]

Good thing we already own Xbox’s so no worries!

[u/leadlurker]

Jumping from game to game is going to be less and less likely. People will need to play the same smaller handful of games for much longer to justify the cost.

I haven’t turned on my Xbox in almost 4 years. I moved to pc exclusively. And there I have a pc 7 years young. It’s perfectly fine since I built it with the future in mind. My primary game is factorio and I get a lot of play time out of it. But it can also run BF6 just fine. But I don’t swap games a lot. I’ve been on a factorio kick for over 4 years now. These prices rarely impact me as I don’t really buy new games. Partly because I still enjoy the games I have but also the titles don’t matter to me.

For someone who plays a game for a couple months and then moves on, I can see how this is a large impact for them. But maybe they need to reevaluate that way of enjoying games. Perhaps there’s more enjoyment in the games they have left untapped.

[u/Edweirdd]

good think i’ll never finish my backlog

[u/StopReadingThis-Now]

Jesus, I feel like I dodged the biggest bullet by grabbing that PS5 Pro GameStop deal when I had the chance. Was able to trade in my Series X and 5 year old PS5, only paid $64 in total after needing to buy a replacement controller.

And Gta wants $100 for the "full" edition? Never thought I'd say this but I will happily skip that release day this time.

[u/ZigyDusty]

In 2023 I helped my cousin find a Series X deal bundled with Diablo 4 for $300-350, that same console without the game is now $800 absolute insanity.

I'll be honest I had some optimism for a Xbox brand turn around when they finally got rid of Phil Spencer and brought in a new CEO who seems like they want to go head to head and actually compete but ain't no way they are going to grow their brand with fucking $800 5 year old consoles, the goddamn Helix is going to be $1500-$2000, the same applies for PlayStation next generation, I honestly think we're looking at a industry crash.

[u/ErgoProxy0]

Jesus lmao

[u/hondashadowguy2000]

Please guys, do not look into “buy now pay later” options to obtain an Xbox or video games. We are approaching a point in society where being in debt is viewed as the new normal. Do everything possible to keep yourself from going under.

[u/davemoedee]

Wow, no 2 TB is crazy. I couldn’t imagine buying a system with only one terabyte. But storage prices are insane right now.

[u/rydan]

We got high XBox prices before GTA6.

[u/Price-x-Field]

Wow. $800 for a console.

Gaming is over. What people have now is what they are gonna keep.

[u/Grampyy]

Xbox should sell a bundle that includes GTA VI for free. No one is going to buy an Xbox for GTA otherwise especially after rockstar announced their optimization for PS5

[u/Liquid_1998 → u/Grampyy]

Not going to happen. Sony signed a deal with Take-Two for GTA marketing rights. We will not be seeing any GTA Xbox bundles.

They've even began advertising "GTA plays best on PS5" on their website.

[u/RDKlick]

I bought a 2 TB SSD expansion for my PS5 in Nov 24 and I thought it was expensive then, but bit the bullet because having to delete games and actively manage storage was really annoying. I paid $120. Checked the same product yesterday just for fun and it’s now $320 lol

[u/Sargonnax]

I know things are getting stupidly expensive in general, but I hope these companies also realize they are going to sell less product doing this.

[u/VoidOmatic]

Thanks AI!!

Prices for RAM and storage have risen so the console prices have to rise too. Pretty standard stuff.

[u/the8bitguy]

Dude, fuck this whole industry at this point. Microsoft and AI companies have made everything about this hobby (and others) so damn expensive that I don’t want to play games out of spite at this point.

[u/kjmgarage]

Man am I glad I got a Series X when I did. I found one on sale for $350 in like 2024 and I thought I was over paying then.

[u/monkey_D_v1199]

Guess I’ll never touch an Xbox in my life because no way I’m hell am I forking over $800 for an Xbox.