The prices of the Xbox console will soon rise in the United States, after growing in May.
Announced todayXbox will raise retail prices Xbox Series X, Series X, Series X Digital and the X 2TB Galaxy Black Special Edition series, starting from October 3. The prices of controllers and headphones will not change, and there will be no price changes except the USA.
The price raise will be as follows:
- Xbox Series S 512 GB: 399.99 USD (up $ 20 from USD 379.99)
- Xbox Series S 1TB: 449.99 USD (up $ 20 from USD 429.99)
- Xbox Series X Digital: USD 599.99 (up 50 USD from USD 549.99)
- Xbox Series X: USD 649.99 (up 50 USD from USD 599.99)
- Xbox Series X 2TB Galaxy Special Edition: 799.99 USD (USD 70 from USD 729.99)
Xbox claims that price increases have occurred “due to changes in the macroeconomic environment” and adds that in the future “continues to focus on offering more ways of playing on more games on each screen and providing values for Xbox players”.
This movement appears because many video games raising the prices of everything from consoles to accessories to games, and price increases affect in particular in the US among current fluctuations of tariffs and uncertainty. Last month, Sony implemented a price raise in the US on his equipment, and after the release of Nintendo Switch 2 at 450 USD, Nintendo raised the price of its original switch 1 and various accessories. It also affects video games: Xbox raised prices for Game Pass at the beginning of this year, Mario Kart Tour launched unprecedented with 80 USD, and Xbox announced that he would also introduce $ 80 games in this holiday … Although he withdrew from this decision shortly afterwards (the Xbox spokesman confirmed that he would ignore that this will remain in this case, there is no 80 USD in this case).
Earlier, we talked with experts of analysts on the rising prices of all elements of the game and explained that all these price increases are probably due to the combination of production costs, competition and competition and American tariffsWith the latter critical in cases where prices are rising in the USA and nowhere else. Earlier, the Entertainment Software Association issued statements about the impact of tariffs in the USA, and ESA spokesman Aubrey Quinn told me in April: “It will have a real impact regardless of the company. This is the company’s agnostics, this is the whole industry. It will have an impact on the entire industry.”
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