Microsoft is raising the prices of its Xbox Series S \/ X consoles in the US next month. The Xbox Series X will be priced at $649.99 in the US starting October 3rd, up from its existing $599.99 price. The Xbox Series S will move to $399.99, up from $379.99.<\/p>\n
Microsoft blames<\/a> the price hikes on \u201cchanges in the macroeconomic environment,\u201d which is a lot of words to say: tariffs<\/a>. Xbox console pricing outside the US will remain the same. Thankfully, pricing for controllers and headsets will remain in the same in the US.<\/p>\n The price rises mean Xbox Series S consoles will increase by $20, Xbox Series X consoles by $50, and the 2TB Galaxy Black Special Edition Xbox Series X is increasing by $70 all the way up to $799.99.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the full list of price increases in the US:<\/p>\n Microsoft only just raised the prices of its Xbox products worldwide in May<\/a>, with price hikes to the Xbox Series S \/ X consoles, controllers, and headsets. Those previous price increases already bumped the Xbox Series X up by $100, and the Xbox Series S by $80. Coupled with today\u2019s announcement, that means the Xbox Series X has increased in price in the US by $150 and the Series S by $100 in just six months.<\/p>\n Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Series X 2TB Galaxy Black Special Edition originally debuted nearly a year ago<\/a> at $599.99, and it\u2019s now about to be $799.99 \u2014 a $200 increase in just a year. Microsoft\u2019s latest price increases are the second this year, following initial price hikes in 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is raising the prices of its Xbox Series S \/ X consoles in the US next month.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[393,252,50,242,158,67,132,68,3768],"class_list":{"0":"post-239795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gaming","9":"tag-microsoft","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tech","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-xbox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115232959696431986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}