Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Says Price Hikes Are Coming, But Not Until After The Holidays

Can we get a quality hike to come with the price hike? *cough* Halo *cough*

Knowing they could've easily just made us all pay an extra $20 to $100 on each XBSX this holiday, like every other company is doing now, but don't.

Is why I say it's utterly asinine to hate Phil Spencer's philosophy and motives on gaming.

After the holidays you say hmmm.

Guess it's time to buy 3 years soon of gamepass again from Bosnia...

Their currencys worth shit.

(Ps, I'm no one's friend...)

Xbox and video games writ large are frivolous luxury toys. Rolexes cost more now than they did five years ago. Low prices on non-essentials are not a human right. If I could get sheep to pay more for my products, I’d do it in a heartbeat. Separating idiots from their money is the American way.

If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.

Bad idea. First thing people do away with during economic decline - discretionary spending. Food prices are skyrocketing with no end in sight. Less disposable income means Little Johnnie might not be getting that $600 game console. Especially if it goes up $50 and the games and accessories go up as well. Sony kills Microsoft in console sales already. Even with the PS5 price hike, I'm guessing it's still easily outselling the XsX. IF MS raises the price of current gen consoles or games and subs, they're risking losing more market share to Sony and selling less of those games and subs where the real money is. Can a little pain now for greater gains later hurt that badly when you're a trillion dollar company?

"Certain things?"

Hmm, I wonder...

Increasing prices of consoles is ridiculous.

Sony shouldn't have done it and Microsoft shouldn't do it either.

What I've noticed is that even with Sony jacking up the PS5 price in Europe, it's still selling out extremely fast and is very hard to find one. You still can't go into a shop and get a PS5 where I am. You have to go online and order it and wait a few weeks to get one in most cases.

The Xbox Series X on the other hand has been widely available in shops in Europe for months and you can just go into a shop and buy one no problem.

I think it's down to Microsoft's lack of big exclusive games. Microsoft are way behind in Europe and even though the PS5 is 50 euros more expensive, people don't seem to care, they're still going mad for it and it's selling out like hotcakes. That's what it seems like to me anyway. So if Microsoft increase the price of the Series X in Europe they'd make it even worse for themselves and it just wouldn't sell well at all.

You'd think keeping the console prices the same would be a smart move, competitively, given the PS5 price hike for most of the world, and how supply issues have eased and the Series X is no longer such a rare commodity.

Right now is the first time I've checked my nearby Target and Best Buy listings where it's turned out yes, they both have the Series X in stock.

And Uncle Phil also said the Xbox Game Pass is now profitable. I thought as much. I found it hard to believe it wasn’t when the $3.9 billion number was mentioned from the Brazilian regulators.

Que the pony clowns saying Phil’s lying lmao!