I love how XBOX looked at the Switch 2 controversy and rather than take an easy win they tried the same thing. $80 games and increase price on their systems. About three days ago from when this post is written XBOX announced that they were increasing price on everything. Now at least Nintendo had some benefit of doubt with Tariffs in Japan (even if they are a billion dollar company and I don’t believe anything they say as an excuse.) XBOX is owned and operated in America so they have no excuses and is surprise a billion dollar company trying to scam their audience (likely trying to get richer from an oncoming recession). I am so close to just reviewing Indie games which I typically only cover every few months. I don’t doubt Playstation is watching all this and will increase their own prices. Sony much like the others have corporations all over the world, but are mostly Japan based so we can expect the same from them and while some are blaming cost and how much it takes to make a game, several of these studios average millions on one game alone. Nintendo, XBOX, and SONY typically can expect any exclusive to their system to sell way more than it takes to actually make their games on average they can sell a game and make several millions back so this excuse is automatically shut down. So all of this means it is just game companies getting greedy and lets face it if it wasn’t for Indie games gaming wouldn’t be as good as it is simply due to how they pulled gaming from the ditches for the last decade or so. We’ve got games like Palworld and Nexomon, Stardew Valley, A Hat in Time, and tons of others showing AAA studios they aren’t as great as they think. What is going to happen is Indie games make another rise and the bigger corporations panic as their games are expensive, but failing to make sales due to people picking the cheaper alternatives forcing them to lower prices (this already happened once and will again).

Sources:

Valentine,Rebekah. “Microsoft Raises the Price of All Xbox Series Consoles, Xbox Games Confirmed to Hit $80 This Holiday” May 1, 2025. IGN. https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-raises-the-price-of-all-xbox-series-consoles-xbox-games-confirmed-to-hit-80-this-holiday