The multinational Microsoft has updated on its website the prices of the entire range of the Xbox console and its controls. In fact, they have announced it with a statement in which they explain that since May 1, the recommended prices of our consoles and controls worldwide have been adjusted. “
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This will not be the only increase that console users will suffer since the brand expects to increase the costs of some of its games “from this holiday period” to eighty dollars, although it explains that these products have the benefits of Xbox Play Anywhere which allows them to use them both in console, as a computer “without additional cost”. Admits the brand that these changes “are difficult.”
Although Microsoft does not explicitly name tariffs, their increase exponentially between the United States and China and with the rest of the world, which paralyzed for a 90 -day period, it does blame the increase to “market conditions and the growing development cost.”
Changes in prices
All versions of the console increase its price in Europe, which in the case of the cheapest options represents about 17% increase. The rise in the price of the controls is not so pronounced, with 5 euros more per product.
It is not the only brand that has opted for this increase in the prices of its products. In fact, it has followed the path that Sony already undertaken with the PlayStation 5 during the past month to cost 50 euros more or Nintendo with the Switch 2, which will be released with a greater value than its predecessor did.