Microsoft Hikes Xbox Series X again to USD 649 – the second price raise 2025 appears

Microsoft announced A up-to-date price raise for Xbox Series X and S consoles, which will appear on October 3, just five months after the previous journey in May. The Xbox Series X prices now recommend $ 649.99, the S series costs $ 399.99 (from 512 GB of memory), and the capacious series X 2 TB Galaxy Black Special Edition has a price, if the name, for 799.99 USD.

However, this time things are a little different. The sting is only indicated for American customers and fortunately covers only consoles. This is unlike growth when Microsoft has raised prices on its console goods around the world, including accessories and games, and used them all over the world.

As you can expect, Microsoft draws the blame for the raise in “changes in the macroeconomic environment”, corporate speaking, which probably means tariffs. Although this may be a decent justification in themselves, some say that this is a lack of thoughts and/or indigent optics to have price increases twice in the same year for similar reasons.

Microsoft can simply follow the market on the Sony heels, which raised prices for the composition of PlayStation 5 by $ 50 about a month ago. At the moment, the standard PlayStation 5 is currently $ 549.99, undermining the Xbox Series X with a solid 100 USD. This is quite a bitter pill for potential Halo players to swallow, and like the revenues from Q4 Microsoft, it is more than a bit wealthy in playstation, having a lion’s share of the market.

If this is not enough, time is ready for inexpensive computers, and some mathematics on napkins puts a machine equal or better for Xbox Series X at about 600 USD, give or accept how much winds allow it. Considering how strenuous Microsoft moves its multi -platform Xbox Game pass, it is more arduous to justify the price of the X series.

In August, Sony reported that it has sold 80.3 million PlayStation 5 consoles. There is no sales data for Xbox series consoles, but if he won two Financial report From May you should believe, a total of about 107 million ninth generation consoles have been sold. Simple mathematics would place the Xbox series offer for over 27 million.

Given the passing time since then and assuming a very generous 30 million, it works at 62.6% compared to 37.3% for Sony. It is good that Microsoft services play cash for a fist.

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