XBox Series S/X Getting Another Price Increase (Tarrifs)

[Pemalite]

ST.Tachyon said:

Sorry to say it like this, but, you need to me extremely dumb to think that price increase is because of Trump.
Price is up by 150e from its release price, that is 30% increase.
Sony and MS are now testing waters about next gen price and what they can get away.
I am done supporting Nintendo and Switch 2 will be the only Nintendo console, i dont own, i was done with MS after gen 8, now lets see what will Sony do but i highly doubt it will be affordable.
Switching to PC in 2020 was best decision.
I do own ps5 and S1 but i used them maybe 3 months in last 4 years, mostly Switch.

Tariffs are a tax on imported goods... That tax gets passed onto the consumers.

Other historical price increases had other pressures that influenced pricing... Hence why it appeared in multiple regions.
But this is US only. Only Americans pay Trump Tariffs in America. - As an Australian, your tariffs don't impact my prices from imports from China or other countries.

It's very simple to understand. If you believe otherwise... Then you are just plain wrong or living in denial.

Sony has done a "cost reduction" with the Playstation 5 to make up for the rising NAND prices by using a smaller SSD. Aka. Shrinkflation... But that has been in the pipeline for a long time as NAND is a commodity, price is based on supply/demand... And NAND manufacturers ended up cutting supply earlier in the year and A.I has boomed taking all the NAND it can get.

SanAndreasX said:

That's already where they seem to be going with the Xbox Ally and Ally S. 

I'm glad I bought my S2 at launch. I was incentivized to do so by the promise of tariffs. 

The Xbox Ally and Ally S are Asus ROG Ally products with Xbox branding.
They were never going to be cheap or even cheaper than the standard Asus ROG Ally products that they are based upon.

Last edited by Pemalite - on 19 September 2025