You were able to get A Better The price if you waited a few years to buy a new console. Those days are over, and I suspect that console manufacturers are going to regret their collective decision to eliminate them.
Xbox joins PlayStation and Nintendo to squeeze users
This week, The game business‘Christopher Drying reports that the Xbox is raising its prices all over the world. In the United States (where the increase increases), the Xbox Series X price is increasing from $ 499 to $ 599, while the series S349 is rising from 9 to 429. The price of Xbox Games is also increasing. Say goodbye to the new routine of this generation of Rs 70 and say salute to the next generation’s new normal normal, $ 80. Hopefully, we can last with it for more than five years before the price rise.
When you remember that we were paying $ 60 for all (non-Delux Edition) new triple-a games 2020It really keeps things in the context.
As Dharng said, Xbox is joining other members of the Big Three, as Nintendo and PlayStation have recently increased prices. To some extent, it is understandable. President Trump’s tariff policy, especially targets China – where many parts of the game are manufactured. If you can’t stop revenue, you have to meet the growing costs somehow, and the three have chosen to put the burden to consumers.
The gamers may not need consoles
It is a short -term solution, but it is a long -term problem for the industry. Consoles have always been popular because they were relatively cheap and easy to go into gaming. Well, at this time, the consoles have withdrawn from being cheap, using the PC has become incredibly easy. With Steam Deck, Rog Eli, and other handheld gaming PCs, the Starter PC search is never easy or more affordable.
As I have noted before, the PC has really become cheaper than console gaming. The initial price to get the gaming PC is still more expensive if you are going to build a high end that can play a new triple-A game with the power of PS5 Pro. But once you have, filling it with sports to play is incredibly cheap.
Steam is always sold, which runs with discounting games. When I write this, the Dark Social Franchise is widely exempt, in which all sports are sold on a 50 % holiday. GOG offers similar cheap prices, and the epic Games Store has given hundreds of free sports in six years since launching.
I have written about them all before, so I don’t want to explain this point. But, if you can get the initial garbage of PC purchases, you have access to a wide variety of triple-Aes and Indi Games at the lowest cost location.
Less, independent games
And it’s assuming that you are not paying your sports at all. If you are in Fortatite, or Apex Legends, or PUBG, or Roblox, you can spend hundreds of hours with all these games without spending hundreds of hours. You can also play them on your phone, and although phones may be clearly expensive, you have everyday use probably already.
Relevant
You can be mad about the price and still order the Switch 2 pre -order
I’m crazy but excited. Sometimes two things can come true.
Games are not just competing with other sports, they are competing with T -Tawk and YouTube and other apps that offer endless content for free. Switch 2 is selling well, is true, but it is a console that promises a lot of immunity. Not everyone can go away from it, and to the extent that the Xbox has mudded the water with its excessively applied policy, I am not sure that the Xbox can.
I do not think the console gaming will go anywhere soon. But the rise in prices of everything will not like the Big Three at the same time. And it’s definitely not getting to buy more games.
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