Microsoft Raises the Price of All Xbox Series Consoles, Xbox Games Confirmed to Hit $80 This Holiday - IGN

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• Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Trump puts tariffs on Americans and then companies use this as an excuse to raise prices worldwide

  Good luck selling a “Xbox one series x pro plus elite series s” for €600

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  • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If your competitor is forced to raise prices 10%, why wouldn’t you raise prices 8/9/10%?

    Anyone that’s taken an AP history class knew tariffs don’t work to help the economy — it’s a tax on all of us and only raises all prices.

    You might not buy a €600 Xbox when the Switch is €250, but it looks more attractive when the Swich is €470

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    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      zero competitors are forced to raise prices 10% in europe, though

      it’s a console launched 5 years ago with no new revision, it was unattractive for €500 in 2020 and it’s even more unattractive for €600 in 2025, if they want to move more units they should lower the prices, not increase them. With this price people can get a real PC with better performance, where you don’t need to pay a subscription to play online. And there are no cool “must have” exclusives like the ps5 or the switch, so the premium is not justified.

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  • Eggyhead@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tbf, Microsoft is an American company that is probably looking for ways to address their own rising expenses. Japan is struggling economically as well, so I imagine they’re looking for the foreign markets to offset their own struggles as well.

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    • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One thing that should be noted is Nintendo is roughly the 10th best company in Japan and has billions in reserve cash.

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• The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  looks at my steam deck

  …yeeeeah

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  • clarinet_estimator@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For real though, I’m so glad I got out of consoles haha.

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    • The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Same, although I use the SD as a console, lol…

      I had the original Xbox all the way through the last series and sold it to get the last 100€. I hadn’t bought a game on the Xbox since No Man’s Sky and just didn’t see anything appealing about it anymore, it was just a steaming box until it was gone (and is at a friend’s, who is using it as a streaming box, lol)

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• Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nice. Hopefully this means I can get a bit more selling my series x and I can put the money towards better parts for my pc. Thanks MS

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  • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can replace those consoles with a mini pc running linux or steam os pretty damn easily.

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• Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do you guys think these companies will retroactively raise game prices?

  There’s a couple of Nintendo games that never go on sale that I’ve been waiting on. I have a gift card, so I’m thinking maybe I should snag em now before things get stupid expensive

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  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think they’ll do that for already-released games, but I wouldn’t put the big 3 (Sony, MS, Nintendon’t) from doing the barest ‘remasters’, and replacing their digital versions of those games with the ‘remasters’.

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    • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ahh, that’s something I didn’t consider. EA did that recently with the Sims 1&2. Something like that at least. I hate that. At the very least, both options should be available.

      In the case with the Sims, they didn’t include regional variants of the game, and they also were missing an ikea dlc due to licensing

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