Will Xbox Series X/S make it to 36 million?

[Kyuu]

OdinHades said:

Kyuu said:

So why are Xbox 1st party games going up to $80? Xbox is digital dominated so tariffs shouldn't have much of an effect on game prices.

Sure, but I bet if they wouldn't increase game prices, the prices for consoles would have increased even more. Because with 100 Dollars more they aren't gonna make up for trumps stupid tariffs, far from it. They would need to at least double the hardware prices. They don't want to do that for obvious reasons, so MS is counting on making more money with more expensive games to sort of even out the hits they are taking.

At least that's what I'm thinking. =P 

The problem is these games' sales may suffer as a consequence of the increased prices, and so profitability will hardly change.

I'm pretty sure Trump will backtrack soon. But I don't know if Microsoft cares enough to reverse the new pricing. I think Sony is betting on Trump backtracking or "making a trade deal with CHAIYNA!!". They apparently stockpiled quite a lot of PS5's before the tariffs kicked in, so they can wait it out a little longer.

Nintendo meanwhile is saved by Vietnam.