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

THE COMPONENT CRISIS THAT THEY CAUSED?!

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!

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

definitely not a good sign

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

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

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.

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.

$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? 🤔

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

Handheld is next.

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.

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?

And people keep paying.

Someday people will say enough is enough.

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

What's even the use case for Xbox right now? People with a PS5 or Switch won't switch and money's way too tight to buy another system. People with functional gaming PCs don't need an Xbox.

So are they hoping there's just a bunch of non-gamers out there that are right now looking for an excuse to spend $500+ to get started?

I saw some refurbished Series S models on their site for ~$330 and that is a good entry point for a "gamepass machine" but there can't be that many in stock. $500 for a Series S that isn't even guaranteed to run the latest and greatest just seems too high.

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

Right before GTA6 gets released ofcourse