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Microsoft Announces Significant Price Rises for Xbox Series X and S, 2TB Model Discontinued

Microsoft has announced significant price rises for Xbox consoles, blaming the ongoing “components crisis.”

Xbox console price rises June 2026:

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
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Lemmayng
lemmy.world

Microsoft has announced significant price rises for Xbox consoles, blaming the ongoing “components crisis.”

THE COMPONENT CRISIS THAT THEY CAUSED?!

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kaitco
lemmy.world

This is exactly the breath of fresh air that the Xbox needs.

They’re trailing far behind their competitors, and now, they’re going to push up the price on their 7 year old console.

Magnifique!

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talreply
lemmy.today

For computer hardware, it's uncommon to see major increases --- computer hardware has consistently seen dramatic long-term declines --- but it does happen. The other major incident I can think of was 15 years back:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods

Severe flooding occurred during the 2011 monsoon season in Thailand. The flooding began at the end of July triggered by the landfall of Tropical Storm Nock-ten.

Thailand is the world's second-largest producer of hard disk drives, supplying approximately 25 percent of the world's production.[76] Many of the factories that made hard disk drives were flooded, including Western Digital's, leading some industry analysts to predict future worldwide shortages of hard disk drives.[77][78] Western Digital was able to get one of their plants, flooded on 15 October 2011, restored and operating on 30 November 2011...As a result, most hard disk drive prices almost doubled globally, which took approximately two years to recover.[77][80]

EDIT: Oh, right, and the cryptocurrency thing drove up some GPU prices for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPU_mining

As cryptocurrency miners increased their purchases of GPUs between 2013 and 2017, the prices of GPUs skyrocketed.[7] The increasing demand of GPU mining and purchases caused a worldwide shortage that continued into 2021 until production finally caught up in 2023.[8][9]

I think that it was more ASICs outperforming GPUs that wound up killing that off.

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iamthetotreply
piefed.ca

I mean, what are you calling modern history? Lots of vintage games are more expensive now than at release.

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splooshreply
lemmy.world

I think they mean products that are not new to the market, but are still actively manufactured.

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iamthetotreply
piefed.ca

Ah that wasn't clear to me. I can't remember any consumer electronics getting more expensive while still in production in my lifetime, although if we expand out to other product categories it's happening all over the past decade or so. Inflation combined with shrinkflation has been making pretty much everything worse value.

Remember $5 footlongs, 5 for $5 at Arby's, or the 10 for $10 packs at Taco Bell?

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tal
lemmy.today

Alongside the price rise announcement, Microsoft pointed to Buy Now, Pay Later options that break up your payments, as well as interest free financing. It’s also working with retailers to make second-hand consoles available at lower prices, it said.

In all seriousness, if you can't come up with the cost of a console, do not buy it (a) using an unsecured loan (b) in the middle of a short period of time where you know that the price is elevated. If things are that tight, then that's just a terrible use of money.

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Jhex
lemmy.world

LOL right after wailing that gaming was becoming unaffordable?! no way!!!

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Wildmimicreply
anarchist.nexus

wanted to say this. If they were that concerned about gaming becoming unaffordable, they should have tried to keep the cost of hardware lower, not going with the insane market prices.

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Flamekebab
piefed.social

Cool, I'll adjust the number of Xboxen I'm buying by the same percentage.

0 * ~0.8 = 0

Jokes aside, the old prices weren't close to a compelling proposition. These consoles have been out for ages and I still haven't seen much in the way of reasons to buy in. I love my 360, had lots of fun with my Xbox One X, and even the original Xbox had some good stuff (I loved Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Sid Meier's Pirates, Crimson Skies, Splinter Cell, XIII, and various others). I'm still waiting on why I should give the slightest shit about the Xbox Series X/S and they're rapidly running out of road.

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jordanlund
lemmy.world

$800 for 1 TB... so the 2TB version would have hit $1,000 or more.

So how much is my old 1TB version with 2TB expansion card worth now? 🤔

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Doctacosa
piefed.ca

I think this is the third price increase on Xbox since the start of 2025...? Insane. Absolutely insane.

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Spooge
lemmy.world

They are going to stop making consoles and start selling GamePass only. I think I'm done with consoles and will just play the catalog of games I currently have ad infinitum.

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auzy1reply
lemmy.world

That's why I sold my Xbox and ps honestly and moved back to steam. I've got hundreds of games, many I've barely played.

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TheRealKunireply
piefed.social

At this point my Xbox exists for exactly three reasons.

1: BluRay player
2: Borderlands 4 with a friend who only has Xbox
3: Stream my PC to the TV with Moonlight so I can play PC games on the couch.

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