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

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/06/25/xbox-console-price-update/

Unfortunately, console storage and memory prices have increased by more than 2.5x and we expect another doubling by the fall of 2027.

please make it stop

Buy now pay later is predatory because it encourages overspending.

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?

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.

We need to burn down the corporate HQs of OpenAI and Anthropic for that.

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

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.

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.

Yes, this will surely help the Xbox brand come back from the brink of irrelevancy! /s

Isn't this the third time it about one calendar year?

Forgot about crypto GPU thing.

Definitely a sign that something is wrong

And people keep paying.

Someday people will say enough is enough.

That day is not today. Tomorrow doesn’t look good, either.

Kinda shows how the steam machine price really is just due to the market. If Microsoft is selling a console at $750/800 then the $1050 for the steam machine isn't too far off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNULYlcJEg0

"Sorry I didn't hear you, did you say make it slop? Say no more chief!"

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