The fact that Xbox has registered its best quarter, with 5% more income in games and 8% of services will not prevent them from Microsoft take measures that affect us all.
The precedent sitting by Sony in mid -April, increasing the price of PS5 Slim Digital to 499 euros, it was already An omen about how Microsoft was going to follow its example.
What no one knew how to anticipate is that the Xbox brand was going to register a massive increase in all its productsincluding games. We detail all the increases below.
Xbox prices after the new climb
Media like The Verge have echoed The climb that Microsoft will carry out in their consoles, controls and games. At European level, the increases are as follows:
Consoles
- Xbox Series X (1 TB): 599,99 € (Antes: 549,99 €)
- Xbox Series X Digital: 549,99 € (Antes: 499,99 €)
- Xbox Series X Galaxy Black (2 TB): 699,99 € (Antes: 649,99 €)
- Xbox Series S (512 GB): 349,99 € (Antes: 299,99 €)
- Xbox Series S (1 TB): 399,99 € (Antes: 349,99 €)
Controls
- Xbox Wireless Controller (Color): 69,99 € (Antes: 69,99 €)
- Wireless Xbox command (Special Edition): € 79.99 (before: € 79.99)
- Wireless Xbox command (Limited Edition): € 89.99 (before: € 79.99)
- Xbox Elite Series 2 (Core): € 149.99 (before: € 139.99)
- Xbox Elite Series 2 (Full): € 1999 (before: € 179.99)
Also, and as Windows Central has advanced, it is advanced that the games They can rise up to $ 80when until now it was $ 69.99.
If we take into account the equivalence at the European level, which transformed those $ 70 at 80 euros, You can expect the games to ascend up to € 90following the path marked by Nintendo Switch 2 with Mario Kart World.
Although from Microsoft they advance that There will be “minor” games that cost 50 dollars or lessthe great titles, such as the next installments of Call of Duty, will reach the top of 90 euros.
From this new policy the prices of Game Pass, which already registered an increase in 2024. As for Xbox Series X, in 2023 he registered his first climb.
In a statement addressed to IGN, Microsoft claims to understand that “These changes are difficult, and have been taken after careful consideration of market conditions and growing development cost“.
Trump rates and global financial uncertainty They are the mantras that are being used to justify this new climb; Something that does not decrease the impact it will have for the players, the most affected by all this.
It is an anomalous situation, After generations in which consoles prices always tended; While now we find hardware increases that, incidentally, is already a few years behind.
The new Xbox prices will be fixed immediatelywhile those of the next games will arrive as new releases occur.
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