New Xbox first-party games are going up in price later this year.

Xbox first party titles expected to hit $80 USD this holiday; Game Pass pricing currently unchanged.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    9 months ago

    A 2TB Xbox Series X now costs more than a PS5 Pro (in the US at least).

    That is mental. Xbox hardware division must be bleeding money hand over fist. I honestly doubt they’ll do another generation, and stick to trying to monetise GamePass through PC and streaming. Maybe you’ll even see GamePass for PS6 since they own so many studios now.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      They’ll only get Game Pass on PlayStation with Sony’s blessing, which is unlikely. And the next Xbox will just be a PC. I don’t think any of the consoles are in the market of selling units at a loss anymore. Those days are done. So with tariffs and inflation, this is the only way it could go.

        • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Yeah, there’s always someone bringing this up, but you can’t just run Steam on it, and that’s what’s about to change. Xbox games still go through cert and need explicit ports above and beyond the PC SKU.

          • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
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            8 months ago

            Ya for sure, I’m just speaking on a hardware level. Always been x86 as far as I was aware. I remember bypassing the disk encryption fighting every fiber of my being on the Xbox 1 by pulling out the IDE cable as it was booting to gain access to the HDD 😂