| ▲ | GeekyBear 7 hours 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. |
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| ▲ | ErneX 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | burnte 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > 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. | | | |
| ▲ | downrightmike 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Microsoft should tell OpenAI to stop it | | |
| ▲ | ErneX 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I’d argue that Nadella has considered spinning off or even selling Xbox considering how it’s been going for them. | | |
| ▲ | Atotalnoob 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That doesn’t make sense, they spent billions on a shopping spree of game devs. Their game pass business model, which is terrible for consumers once the rug pull happens, is making them a lot of money and market share | | | |
| ▲ | wil421 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They should’ve done it a while ago before Microsoft acquired more studios. |
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| ▲ | wolvoleo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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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| ▲ | zamadatix 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | drnick1 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | barake 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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 | | |
| ▲ | windowsrookie 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Tim Cook stated Apple is eating some of the price increases. I'm guessing they chose not to with the Apple TV. | | |
| ▲ | simondotau 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The price increase may be factoring in the next Apple TV hardware revision, allowing that to be released without price being the dominant story around it. | | |
| ▲ | sgerenser 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, that seems to be the dominant theory, especially since the AppleTV hasn't been updated in a few years and is widely expected to be "due" for a new model within the next few months. | |
| ▲ | jtmarl1n 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That makes a lot of sense |
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| ▲ | godelski 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is this true? I was under the impression that Apple signs long term deals with companies and the reason they didn't have a price hike for so long is because they were still getting parts are the former price |
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| ▲ | ErneX 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This isn’t the 1st increase they do on these consoles. | |
| ▲ | rconti 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 1.67x on the ethernet version! $150 -> $250. | | |
| ▲ | drnick1 40 minutes ago | parent [-] | | 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! | | |
| ▲ | doubled112 8 minutes ago | parent [-] | | If you were going to use a streaming service, say Netflix or Prime Video, do you still get 4K and HDR10 this way? |
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| ▲ | dbbk 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This isn't immediate though, it's from August |
