Support NeoGAF

[kiphalfton]

$500 for a Series S is the fucking crazy LMAO

For sure.

I guess I won't be buying any electronics, new vehicle, buying beef products, etc.

What a time to be alive!

 

[wipeout364]

Most funny thing is that they are very responsible for the entire RAM crisis. They are basically killing their own hardware division by investing into their own AI bullshit.

So true, I think they are actually getting worried about a crash and over investment. Satya has been saying some things that don't fit his narrative from the last couple of years.

I think Co Pilot has been a disaster for them, huge costs with both no return and decreased customer satisfaction. A deadly duo, Microsoft is watching the AI race slip out of their fingers despite their aggressive investment.

It probably brings back bad memories of the metro push into phones and tablets, then losing everything to android and Apple.

 

[Topher]

 

[Truthtellers]

 

[Magic Carpet]

I just went to Bestbuy at lunch an hour ago to pick up a copy of Starfox. There was a bigger selection of Lego sets than there were of Consoles.
They had a white Series X. Also had some PS5's and Switch2's. So they are available and waiting to take your money.
Switch is selling tons of NEXT controllers?
A huge wall of NEXT branded stuff. Are they the new Bestbuy brand or something?

 

[Darsxx82]

Have you actually looked at Xbox stock? The consoles are available everywhere. Target, Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon. The supply issue was a straight up LIE by higher ups.

Outside of the US (and UK?), it's been impossible to find either the Xbox Series S or Xbox Series X for a year now. Only a few stores or retailers offer it, and even then, they have waiting lists. Not even the official Xbox store has any consoles available. However, Xbox ROG Ally consoles are available on retailers.

Basically, the stock they manufacture is allocated to the US and UK(?).

 

[spookyfish]

Xbox Series S 512GB: $399 --> $499
Xbox Series S 1TB: $449 --> $599
Xbox Series X 1TB: $649 --> $800
Xbox Series X 1TB Digital: $599 --> $750

I mean, they were selling so well before, so ...

 

[mckmas8808]

This is my O onQ123 moment in the Sun. It happened a little faster than I thought lol

Fucking AI bullshit.

It's legitimately unbelievable how much these hardware component prices have increased over the last two years. Reading Asha saying this only means that the price of the Xbox Series consoles will more than likely go up again in 2027.

News  Post in thread 'Bloomberg: Xbox is planning major layoffs next month, as new CEO Asha Sharma confronts a bleak picture and plans what she calls a "reset"'

Jun 10, 2026

Next 100 Days: XBOX Reset - XBOX Wire

news.xbox.com

Cc. @nial

Instead of getting a Sega acquisition Wednesday, we're getting a reset /s

#3: We are in a hardware component crisis. When I joined as CEO in February, the price we paid for console storage components was over 2x as high as we paid last fall. These costs have since doubled again. And as we plan for the 2027 holiday season, we expect another significant increase, taking us over 5x the prices we paid only two years earlier. Memory costs have followed a broadly similar trajectory...

• Mr Moose

• 
• 

 

[MisterXDTV]

I mean, they were selling so well before, so ...

That's the point

Even $5000 changes nothing....

Xbox Series is a discontinued product, they just don't want to say it out loud

 

[mckmas8808]

LOL $500 FOR A SERIES S??

The 1TB Series S is now $600!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Gambit2483]

This is so weird....I swear these price increases were already announced yet everyone is acting like this is an entire new announcement. Very Twilight Zone moment.

 

[Lone Wolf]

No one was buying Xbox before all this. Gears of War is going to bomb with its console exclusive nonsense.

 

[twilo99]

FYI Apple with even all their software driving profits officially called the flash memory crisis "unsustainable"

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/25/tech/apple-hikes-the-prices-of-macbooks-and-ipads-because-of-memory-chip-shortage

This is the big tell for the whole market

 

[squallbr]

No one was buying Xbox before all this. Gears of War is going to bomb with its console exclusive nonsense.

That exclusive wont last 6 months

 

[StereoVsn]

Apple just hiked prices up and they have better leverage vs anyone other than hyperscalers.

 

[MisterXDTV]

This is so weird....I swear these price increases were already announced yet everyone is acting like this is an entire new announcement. Very Twilight Zone moment.

This is a price increase OVER the price increase they already did

 

[Brucey]

They had just been talking about better sales figures recently. I guess they didn't like that very much.

Well it ended up that when she said they shipped more in the last quarter than in the previous 12 months Asha was talking about software updates, not console sales.....

 

[OmegaSupreme]

An endless stream of bad news around Ms. Love to see it.

 

[LordOcidax]

The 1TB Series S is now $600!!!!!!!!!!

I am starting to really worry about the situation… Things are not looking good at all. And i don't see any solution in the horizon. If the consoles makers don't sell consoles the business is going to become unsustainable for everybody, including the game makers.

 

[mckmas8808]

Asha outdoing Phil in record time

I'm sure this will be the last price hike, before they discountinue the Xbox Series consoles.

 

[DaleinCalgary]

2030 next gen

 

[Brucey]

The 1TB Series S is now $600!!!!!!!!!!

"Thousands of dollars of value!!!"

"Flying off the shelves"

 

[SEGAvangelist]

I am starting to really worry about the situation… Things are not looking good at all. And i don't see any solution in the horizon. If the consoles makers don't sell consoles the business is going to become unsustainable for everybody, including the game makers.

 

[Zacfoldor]

Oh dear Lord.

This is like ceding GTA to Playstation. I guess this couldn't wait till next year......

 

[MisterXDTV]

I'm sure this will be the last price hike, before they discountinue the Xbox Series consoles.

They are doing this on purpose to have a reason to discontinue it sooner. I think it's clear at this point

No other company made 2 price hikes in so little time

 

[Brucey]

I'm sure this will be the last price hike, before they discountinue the Xbox Series consoles.

Three price hikes since start of 2025...

 

[LordOcidax]

Not funny at all, i don't want to talk about how good a mobile phone game is here in 5 years…

 

[Zacfoldor]

They are doing this on purpose to have a reason to discontinue it sooner. I think it's clear at this point

No other company made 2 price hikes in so little time

You may be right. It seems like not an Asha kind of move unless there is some behind the scenes stuff going on.

 

[MisterXDTV]

Oh dear Lord.

This is like ceding GTA to Playstation. I guess this couldn't wait till next year......

So you thought they were competing with Playstation for GTA VI??

It was already a de-facto exclusive

 

[rickybooby87]

Holy crap, Riky was right!

 

[DeepEnigma]

Our hobby is really is danger this time.

They weren't lying nor joking when they said this. They were foretelling.

From airline prices, concert and sporting events, etc.. etc..

Not for the peasantry, only for the Capital Families.

 

[Zacfoldor]

Holy crap, Riky was right!

You just had to go there didn't you, lol.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Worst generation ever...

I've been saying it for years.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Door busters!

 

[mckmas8808]

"They can't possibly sell any fewer consoles."

Asha: "Hold my curry..."

 

[Bonkerzzz]

 

[Darsxx82]

No one was buying Xbox before all this. Gears of War is going to bomb with its console exclusive nonsense.

There's an XS user base of 30+ millions, and then add Steam (150+)to that... Certainly, if E-Day is a sales failure, it won't be due to a small potential user base.

 

[tr1p1ex]

$573 at Walmart for Series X. Hurry.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I've been saying it for years.

You were right all along.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Switch 2, right now, is the best deal in gaming.

 

[MisterXDTV]

Three price hikes since start of 2025...

So I was wrong....

It's not the second price hike, it's the third one in the last 15 months

 

[Arsic]

Once again, day one pro adopters won this console gen by a landslide.

This is absolutely retarded.

 

[Zacfoldor]

They could raise the price to a million dollars and I would never stream one game for one second. It's just not a thing and it never will be and they need to stop. We are human beings we are not changing our single player games to have latency. Call that bluff.

 

[FoxMcChief]

You were right all along.

This is scaring me.

 

[Killer8]

 

[Tarnpanzer]

Console gaming is becoming an expensive hobby.

 

[DAHGAMING]

Pretty mental nearly 6 years on and I could probably sell my release console for what I paid for it, thanks Asha and friends

 

[Gambit2483]

This is a price increase OVER the price increase they already did

So they price increased, the most recent price increase which was already previously announced?

 

[mckmas8808]

1TB Series X - Disc edition for $800

Asha has lost her fucking mind.

Thank you for being honest this time.

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

No one was buying Xbox before all this. Gears of War is going to bomb with its console exclusive nonsense.

Same thing I'm thinking. The Coalition is truly fucked.