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Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide

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Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide

Xbox first party titles expected to hit $80 USD this holiday; Game Pass pricing currently unchanged.

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  • Fuck the US for inflicting this on the rest of the world.
    At least the ones that voted the orange guy.

  • There has always been an inherent value to consoles but if that goes away then I can genuinely see them dying off. Personally I thinks the current gen is a huge disappointment anyway and this news just makes it even more ridiculous.

    • I've always been a console peasant for the convenience of having a dedicated gaming device hooked up to the TV that uses a controller as well as the ability to trade in games when I'm done with them, not to mention consoles are cheaper than comparable PCs. I do have a decent PC, but I find I rarely play through entire games when I have to sit at a desk to do so. With digital games looking like the only game in town in the future and consoles being walled gardens with no other places to buy games for them, that cost advantage will be gone and it will be cheaper in the long run to pay more up front for a PC and get games for less. I got a Steam Deck recently, and it's been a great showcase for how a PC hooked up to the TV using only a controller can work. I had no idea Steam had such a robust system for remapping controllers and have been able to play games with them that would have been a huge hassle before.

      If Sony does away with physical games like Nintendo is come the PS6, I'm definitely switching to PC gaming.

      • To be fair PC gaming is a whole different monster to deal with because of the extortionate prices of new hardware and extreme consumerism.

        I just want to play games and not be a target for all these companies :/

    • And you may ask yourself "my god! Where are the games?"

  • Even though I stopped buying new games on Xbox for sometime now, numerous reasons to boycott Microsoft I'm sure you have yours too. There is still probably another Xbox console or two in my life due to the over 300 game digital library I have accumulated over three generations due to Xbox Live Gold and Microsoft Rewards.

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