Microsoft hints that it will raise prices on its Xbox products

Oct. 27 (Portaltic/EP) –

The person in charge of Xbox and CEO of Microsoft Gaming, phil spencerhas suggested that Microsoft will see the need to raise the prices of its Xbox products, both console and game and its subscription soon, despite having maintained them in recent years.

Currently the console xbox series x it has a price of €499.99while Xbox Series S can be purchased by €299.99 through the company’s official store, Microsoft Store.

Your subscription service, Xbox GamePasshas different rates: 12.99 euros per month for Ultimate (also includes the Gold service), 9.99 euros for PC and 9.99 euros for the console.

The head of Xbox has commented on how he foresees the future of both the console he develops and the games and your Xbox Game Pass subscription service and has suggested that it will have to raise the prices of Xbox services, without detailing which ones would be susceptible to this increase.

It has been done within the framework of WSJ Tech Livea conference focused on the technology industry, in a presentation entitled ‘Beyond Xbox: The Future Of Video Games At Microsoft’, in which the growth of its cloud services, subscriptions and their plans to acquire Activision Blizzard.

“We have maintained the price of our console, that of the games… and our subscription. I don’t think we can do that forever. I think at some point we’re going to have to raise some prices on certain things,” Spencer said, as reported by The Verge’s senior editor. Tom Warren.

These statements contrast with those issued at the end of last August, when the company stated that would keep the price of the Xbox console before the rise of the PlayStation 5 (PS5), manufactured by Sony.

The latter had announced days before the increase in the final price both in the Digital Edition consoles and in the models with Blu-ray support, in Europe, the United Kingdom, China, Mexico, Canada, Australia and, ultimately, Japan, where It became effective soon after.

It should be remembered that Microsoft and the Japanese company have been at odds since the beginning of this year, when the former announced that it had reached an agreement to buy the publisher and developer of popular video games such as Call Of Duty, Activision Blizzard.