Microsoft has no plans to raise the price of its current generation consoles, the Xbox Series X -more powerful and with a disc reader- and the Xbox Series S, intended for use with digital content. This has been confirmed by the American company in a statement shared with several specialized media.
“We are constantly evaluating our business to offer our fans great gaming options. Our retail price for Xbox Series S will remain $299 (€300) and Xbox Series X will be $499 (€500), “confirms Microsoft.
The technology settles the issue just a few hours after Sonyits main rival in the field of video game hardware, announced its plan to increase the price of their consoles by 10% due to inflation gripping the economy. In this way, the PlayStation 5 With a disc player, it has automatically gone from costing 499 euros in EU territory to reaching 549. The fully digital version, for its part, costs 449 euros.
Taking this into account, buying a Microsoft console today is much cheaper than betting on a competing console. Especially if we look at the price of the Xbox Series X, possibly the most powerful system on the market today, and which from now on has a lower price of 50 euros than the version with a disc player. playstation 5
In the past, the price of a console has almost always been decisive for a system to triumph over those of the competition. And that Sony, and also Microsoft, know it. It became clear to them in 2006when the Japanese company was forced to revise its system PlayStation 3 after what Xbox 360 managed to sell (many) more consoles during the first impasses of the generation.
The PlayStation 5 price hike, however, doesn’t seem likely to have a major impact on sales of the console, as availability remains extremely low due to chip shortages. The user will continue to buy the machine if he finds one available, even though now, almost two years after its launch, it costs 50 euros more. Sony has also maintained the price of PS5 in the US, a country that has always represented the main market for Microsoft and its Xbox.