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

Handheld is next.

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

THE COMPONENT CRISIS THAT THEY CAUSED?!

it's this the first time I'm modern history that old products get more expensive?


definitely not a good sign

$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? 🤔

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

Right before GTA6 gets released ofcourse

wow that's bad, Apple also increased prices a lot today https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/apple-just-increased-prices/

I guess it's due to Micron's new lock-in https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/06/25/micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years/5261854

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.

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.