Comment by GeekyBear
4 months ago
To be fair, Microsoft announced their third XBox price hike today.
> The price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models. We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model.
https://kotaku.com/xbox-price-increase-2026-tariffs-buy-now-...
This is in addition to the other two recent price hikes.
And it isn’t the 1st time they increased it, also PlayStation.
Microsoft said ram/storage increased prices 2.5x since late 25 and they expect it to increase another 2.5x by late 27.
> And it isn’t the 1st time they increased it, also PlayStation.
I keep seeing FLOODS of comments from people saying "at least Sony didn't raise prices1" Well, they did a month or two ago, so I have no idea why they say that. Literally everything with RAM is more expensive now.
Yes, even the Switch 2. Nobody escapes this.
Microsoft should tell OpenAI to stop it
I’d argue that Nadella has considered spinning off or even selling Xbox considering how it’s been going for them.
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Microsoft doesn't care about xbox like they care about copilot.
Watch any video from Microsoft leaders of the last years. It's all copilot copilot copilot. Not Xbox Xbox Xbox.
I mean it makes sense because "investors" are all screaming AI, not gaming. But for us it all sucks of course.
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> To be fair, Microsoft
Not sure what Microsoft has to do with this and why it's fair.
I guess Microsoft makes consumer electronics and (as much as it makes me shudder to say it) is a peer of Apple. I agree it’s not fair to Apple to draw comparisons with Microsoft given the sheer amount of damage they’ve done to the world.
1.16x simple mean on XBOX 1.22x simple mean on Apple
Closer than I expected, but some products are quite the outliers. E.g. Apple TV is 1.54x. That's gotta hurt.
Apple TV is a little worrisome, surprised the A-series devices jumped so much. They're on older lines and have mostly been a way to recoup R&D for flagships. Theyre either subsidizing other products to soften the increase, or older process nodes are under serious demand suddenly.
Doesn't bode well for the industry. PlayStation and Xbox both switched to mostly-commodity hardware this gen and are years old, yet also facing the same price pressure apparently
Tim Cook stated Apple is eating some of the price increases. I'm guessing they chose not to with the Apple TV.
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The Apple TV barely has any storage or memory, it’s already massively overpriced compared to any other set-top box.
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This isn’t the 1st increase they do on these consoles.
Xbox has had two or three other price increases before this most recent one.
1.67x on the ethernet version! $150 -> $250.
Here is an alternative: put any Linux distro that packages Plasma Bigscreen on a old laptop or mini-PC. Add an HDMI-CEC for control with the TV's remote. It even comes with Ethernet!
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A good opportunity to move away from this tier of locked-down garbage devices, which include, among other, consoles (Xbox, PlayStation), streaming boxes (Apple, Amazon, Google), phones with locked bootloaders (Apple, Samsung), Internet-of-Shit home appliances that depend on the "cloud" and non-free apps, and others.
Move to what?
Do I not have to buy RAM and an SSD if I opt for a Framework?
Your point is orthogonal to the fact that the price increases are at a level that affects ANY computing device.
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I am currently in projects using lots of open source hardware and SBCs and I would argue the price increases on those have been even worse (if they are available at all) because those companies are competing for the same components but without the buying power of Apple. It’s a bloodbath out there.
You can still get any of these devices for the price of 16 GB DDR5 or 32 GB DDR4 (which limits the choice and availability of CPUs). It's a terrible time to build freedom PCs.
GTA 6 is coming out.
Now IS the time they will hike prices up, as sales of hardware are going to go through roof.
How is that a comparison? Consoles are well known tobe sold as loss leaders.
Apple doesn't sell anything remotely close to a loss leader.
This isn't immediate though, it's from August