Xbox Now Selling PS5 Games for $80, Joins Switch 2 in Price Increase

So, how long are we giving it until PlayStation makes the same announcement? Expect an $800 PS5 Pro in less than a year, folks.

Would be a great PR move for Sony to keep PS game prices at the same as current.

Seemed to have put their foot down already with Ghost of Yotei.

I can see a change during PS6 era for sure, but keeping the same for now would be a good move.

Willing to bet this was going to happen regardless of how Nintendo priced Mario Kart, but MS was smart to wait until afterwards so it looked like Nintendo's fault lol

One of the richest companies in the world.. needs to hike up their prices because? And im sure Sony will be running to be next in-line now this genie is out the box. All of it is beyond gross!

None of these Multi-Billion (some cases trillion) companies need to be hiking their prices. Thanks Nintendo, I guess!

@Jacko11 why would Sony do that, though? When other console competitors both raise prices, there is no need to hold back. Money in corporations' eyes are much better than all possible PR moves or loyal community.

Indiana Jones was already too expensive for me to buy during the launch window, so it looks like I won't be getting any Xbox-published games at launch then. Oh well, at least waiting for discounts means the games shouldn't be broken at that point.

I remember when I bought a PS4 1.5 years after release for 100€ less in a sale

Nowadays we have to pay ~100€ more 5 years after release

I can't see myself paying that price for anything they release tbh. Will wait for a deep sale or not buy it at all. That goes for all companies. A game would have to be mighty special

I said this was inevitable and not just a Nintendo issue when they announced their prices. Unfortunately we are living in a reality where everyone's costs are increasing and sadly any next generation console is now going to be very expensive.

Anyone thinking that the PS6 is going to be cheaper than the Pro is now, is out of their mind

I won’t even buy a game for £70, so good luck with that.

They must really don't want people to buy Their games anymore.

Ironic how people were saying that without competition Sony would be raising prices, only to be beaten to the punch by the other platformholders 😂

Edit: Wait, the 2TB Xbox is now more expensive than the Pro? 😳 Crazy

But that will undoubtedly mean Sony will be increasing their console prices as well.

Edit #2: Damn, i should read properly before commenting lol, apparently every Xbox console is now more expensive than a Playstation.

Playstation price increase coming in 3, 2, 1…

Also, Game Pass users should probably be assessing how much they are willing to pay monthly for their subscription, as i’m sure that’ll follow soon as well, unless their strategy here is to show the price contrast of renting through Game Pass vs owning a game, which is not a bad strategy

COD is 100% going to 80 there's no doubt about it. If that sells well this year, then yeah we're just going to have to get used to this if we want to buy new games.

I hate this. Thank you Nintendo!
Time to transition into a new hobby...
Probably going to spend more of my money into 4k physical media instead of games.

Yet another reason why I need to stick with one console/company. Why bother supporting multiple platforms when you know you are only enabling a system that is most definitely pricing some people out of their hobby. There are always going to be discounts (eventually) but day one was already looking less and less appetizing. Now so is some hardware.

Yeah, good luck..will buy them on heavy reduction down to 30 bucks

@get2sammyb Nooooooo don't jinx it lol

Well GTA 6 is $100 for the base game. Might even be $150 with the online bundled in. Glad i have all my hardware bought and paid for in cash at the start of the generation. PS6 and the next Xbox are likely to be $700 base models. PS5 Pro looking good at $700 for now anyways.

In light of events I buy 1-2 games per year, rest I get from PS+ monthly, I would say just "Choke yourself!" to all three companies. I'll not buy full price game anymore. Yes, I'm drop in a sea, but maybe other will do same in near future...

Man, I might need to go ahead and buy a PS5 Pro before prices go up.

“With the Game Pass subscription on PS5” what?

That 2TB price is insanity. Microsoft really don't want to sell consoles.

Looks like I’ll need to wait for the 60%+ sales now. Thank goodness for backlogs.

@ThaBEN this isn't Nintendo's fault, it's the reality that we live in. Costs are going up everywhere, between power costs, wages and now components due to Trump and his tariffs. Sony have already raised the prices of their consoles twice this generation before Nintendo announced anything

Game prices are going up at Christmas, as per their own official page. Not "now".

How they can increase the Series S is beyond me. That's ridiculous. It would be like Apple increasing the price of the previous generation iPhone when it releases a new one.

Im still way more interested in xbox rereleasing their back Catalogue of games then their newer games

As I've said after Nintendo announcement, they were just first to make it public (and ate the proverbial negative PR bullet). Decisions like these were contemplated and decided much earlier than Switch 2 reveal, MS just held of from going public so Nintendo can be sacrificial lamb.

They finally sell games and get greedy instantly. Classic MS.

I think this was always inevitable but Nintendo just moved first.
Fully expect Sony releases next year to follow suit.

Well that's disappointing to see, but in regards to what's happening here in the US, I'm not surprised.

The Xbox Series X will sell approximately 14 units for the remainder of 2025 as a result of this lmaooo

Also the thought of potentially charging $80 for a PS5 port of Master Chief Collection is HILARIOUS

Video game prices going up might be what finally gets me to check out this whole “nature” thing.

With the new standard price becoming 80 $, F2P games will be priced 10 $?

Bah, I hate this. Consoles always had price cuts the further into their generations. But for this generation, we're going in reverse.

We shouldn't be going in reverse. Yet we're not the ones at the wheel of this whole mess.

Would be a great power move if Sony stayed at $70

@Fighting_Game_Loser I have a feeling you'd be right. Which makes this situation suck even more for everyone else.

@PaperAlien Have they announced this same price increase in other countries? If not… This probably has more with the current US economy climate than following Nintendo trend.

$ony - power to the payer$ AMIRITE

Oh wait...

Yeah I refuse to pay £70 for a game never mind £80.

Ill just wait for sales or not buy at all

@AverageGamer It's in other countries as well. For example in the UK, Series S 512GB increased from £249.99 to £299.99.

@AinsleyE they put their games on sale almost immediately from what I’ve seen. Wait a month and you’ll likely see at least a 20% discount

Sony will follow with game prices, GoY will be the last one at £70.

Expect GP to rise by £2-3 in June/July. And although plus has risen in some countries I expect it to follow elsewhere.

So are we all going to pretend Sony weren't the first to start charging £70 for games? No one can claim any high ground here.

@AverageGamer EU, UK, US and was either Canada/aus something like ghat

Are they trying to price us out of this hobby so its truly a luxury hobby only the luxurious can enjoy 😭. I'm so glad I got a pc when I did

@Ooccoo_Jr I thought it was 2k? But Sony was first of the platform holders no?

Wouldn’t pay that for my most anticipated games. Certainly not digitally where you are restricted from being able to get any value back once finished.
So would I pay it for what is often a years old port at this point? You’re joking right?

Ho boy that PS6 is going to cost an arm and a leg...and a kidney at this rate!

Please don't follow suit, Sony...

As expected from a scumbag company.

@HonestHick Still hasn't been confirmed that GTA will be 100, so that's nothing more than guess work.

Goes to show that the whole "cOmPetiTioN iS gOoD, yoU gUyS" is so baseless and wrong.

@naruball This is Sony's chance to one up both MS and Nintendo and stick to the current prices we have, that would generate a lot of good will.

I was already buying new games very sparingly at 70 (MH Wilds being one of the few). At 80 I'll never buy day one again. That's fine, my backlog is immense.

Wolverine and whatever is coming next for PS5 that hasn't announced its price is 100% gonna be $80.

Suddenly having an enormous backlog seems like such a blessing.

Here are Microsoft's Q3/FY24 highlights:

-Revenue $70.1 Billion (+13%)
-Operating Income $32 Billion (+16%)
-Net Income $25.8 Billion (+18%)
-Cloud Revenue $26.8 Billion (+21%)
-Xbox Content & Services Revenue (+8%)
-Xbox Hardware (-6%)
-Gaming Revenue (+5%)

Final nail in the coffin.

Makes me laugh when people say Sony need competition to stop them charging ridiculous amounts, yet it's the competition raising the prices first.

@Oram77 it is, but I really don't see them taking it :/

@Thumper Those total revenue numbers for just one quarter are crazy, and shows which company the real underdog is here

@Tomato_Goose never said they would.

I’m saying Yotei at standard seems to have been making a point. And it’d be good PR to remain.

Not getting into why/why not, should/should not, simply stating its good PR move if they do.

Good day sir.

Only a matter of time before ps make the same announcement..... What happened to hardware getting cheaper as time went on....not more expensive....crazy

So we could be looking at £80 for Halo and Gears on PS5 when they eventually release. Pass at that price. I would hope its more aligned with the Oblivion price.

Short sighted, numbers must go up mentality. At this rate they are just going to price people out of the hobby. I just bought Clair Obscure to support the studio releasing a great game for a reasonable price.

I cancelled my Nintendo Switch 2 preorder recently. Mario Kart World and nicer versions of the Zelda games are not worth the best part of £500.

I've always been an early adaptor of hardware but those days are ending I feel. Not enough value there to justify the cost. Most of my games are bought on a deep sale now. My backlog would last me the next decade anyway....

@UltimateOtaku91 You really think if Nintendo or Xbox didn't announce the price increase ps wouldn't also? ..they defo will and would have known long before their competition announced it that they were doing it.... They are all as bad as each other

I'm glad in a lot of ways I have less time for gaming, I don't have the time or inclination for a 100 hour jaunt with a game, so have found myself buying more strategy and indie games over the past few years.

I know it's been raved about over the past week or so but something like Clair Obscur is the perfect point IMO, great game, great length and at £50 not breaking the bank.

Might be a good thing for the smaller studios and push people more towards these games, out with the annual FIFA and COD crew

@StylesT I'm not saying Sony won't increase the price or haven't had plans to, I'm saying that these "ridiculous" prices are going to happen if Sony have competition or not.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner @Grumblevolcano Ah. The Twitter image only showed USD.

@StylesT Of course Sony will follow suit, but the irony here is that people were already assuming Sony would be the one doing it and branding them as the bad guy even before they did it. This really undercuts that narrative and shows that any company can increase their prices, its not just Sony who is “greedy and petty” 🫢

@Thumper Pulling in massive income… Yet my pay raise this year was trash. :/

When prices go this high or higher people will become more selective in which games they will buy, so less games wil be bought (at least at full price). Casual gamers might jump ship completely. In the long run this will cost them more then it will gain on short term.

They’re betting on Sony matching. I can’t believe they raided prices on already struggling consoles though.

Glad I got my PS5 Pro already. It's heaper than an Xbox? LOL

@naruball "Competition is good" goes both ways, I suppose. On one hand, when Company A raises prices, it enables Company B to follow suit. On the other, if there was no competition, Company A could charge $150 for a game and tell you to "shut up and like it."

I have absolutely no issue with this at all. I just wont buy them antil they are on a mega deep sale or skip them all together and support devs making cracking games like Clair Obscur. MS have got a taste of hungry PS owners lapping up games like Forza, Indy, Oblibion and soon to be the behemoth that is Doom. Money trees baby, money trees.

I do actually wonder if this news will cause a flurry of PS5 and PS5 Pro sales in the US with the assumption that you're never going to get them cheaper than they are right now. It's only a matter of time before Sony announces price hikes of their own.

Listen closey can your hear it ? , that hammering sound of the final nail in the xbox console coffin , I haven't bought a xbox game as of yet , the only ones I'll even consider are doom and gears but not at launch.

@wildcat_kickz haven't they already put the price of the ps5 up, i think the pro has stayed the same.

@wildcat_kickz " if there was no competition, Company A could charge $150 for a game and tell you to "shut up and like it."

Thats when people should be telling Company A to stick their games up their ar#es and voting with their wallets. Will never happen tho so alas, company A gets rich and dictates what they wish.

Glad i got the premium edition Forza Horizon 5 on Indonesian store for £45 😀

I am no longer buying any first party games.

@Jrs1 £24 from Turkey at the moment. Price discrimination brings a lot of needed perspective to value. And a VPN can often be a lot cheaper than being ripped off for a year, or longer. You could even get a PO Box, send your purchases there, have it redirected and still save money each time. That's how much some countries are being ripped off right now.

@lazarus11 I'm speaking purely from an American standpoint. I know they've raised prices elsewhere very recently. I might be wrong, but I think they raised the price slightly when the Slim versions came out, but I think another round is inevitable in the US at this point, including the Pro. I wouldn't be surprised if a Pro costs $800 by the end of the year.

@Kidfunkadelic83 Yeah, I'd like to think that people would boycott practices like that, but when you have literally no options, strong wills kinda go out the window. It's why consumer protection and antitrust laws exist, as flawed as the implementation of those laws may be.

Welcome to Hell kids. It's not getting any better.

Of all the companies to do this, Xbox seems like the one this going to have the worst effect on. They’re not selling any consoles as it is…

If the ps6 is too expensive that will probably be the nudge I’ve needed to move over to PC. I already have a huge library of games on steam deck and there aren’t that many PlayStation exclusives I’m worried about missing out on.

I remember when prices of a console went down this far into their lifecycle. Crazy times!

@naruball Competition is good, in a well run capitalistic society. We just aren't in that anymore. If someone throws you a life preserver in the desert or an anvil in the ocean it doesn't mean those objects don't work, just not in those situations.

@wildcat_kickz "It's why consumer protection and antitrust laws exist"

Yeah, about that.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/who-benefits-trumps-move-shut-down-consumer-financial-protection-bureau

Welcome to the wasteland. We live in the post apocalyptic, or at least post capitalistic, world now, our brains just won't let us accept it. 🤪

Remember folks, you don't need to buy games on day one at full price 👍

Whatever. Dinner out with my wife and son runs $50 with tip if we hit an actual restaurant. Going to a matinee movie costs $30 for two of us with sodas. I buy a handful of full price games a year. They give me way more hours of entertainment than going to a movie. Hell, I’ve got 300+ hours in my favorites. If a game interests me enough I’ll buy it.

@RBMango and just 20 minutes ago I was considering getting a pro and the disc drive, taking the loss, but even before the price increase it's still so expensive, I would be worse off with the price increase 🥶🥶 they are robbing us blind at this point 😡

@rjejr I was trying to imply that the principle of antitrust laws are there. I'm not saying they're being used effectively.

Without getting too political (a stupid preface, I realize), I don't think we live in a "post capitalistic" society, just a wildly corrupt one, at least at the moment. There's still time to fix it (just not realistically in the next few years). To me, a well regulated capitalist market is still the best option we have. We just need much better people at the wheel.

@Th3solution I'm considering it, taking the loss, like I said 😢😢

Most likely will impact PS5 games next, sadly. One good thing is it’ll make my game spending go down finally.

@GirlVersusGame Ive got a turkish account, stopped using it after crypto dot com cards stopped working, also a lot of the big title prices were pushed up to region match (prob still good deals here and there, same with indo store, sega stuff in particular good there) Pretty sure you can get psn cards for turkey now ill need to have a look.

Edit - Forza currently showing as £30 standard edition and £50 premium for turkey store. Using psdeals and google currency converter.

I'm so glad I've amassed a serious backlog of hundreds of games over time. Because I'm covered for years and years of entertainment.

Sony should pull an absolute baller move and drop their prices back down to £60. It could end up giving them even more control over the market. It would never happen, but would definitely cause a huge shift in their direction.

It's an interesting time in gaming history. I know it's probably my last engagement with a modern console generation, before moving over to PC, Steam, and the high seas. I wonder if it will work out for them. I just can't see it with wages not rising with inflation and the cost of living being so awful at the moment.

I predict a whole generation of kids growing up exclusively on free to play games and the current console providers being mostly irrelevant in 20 years. Parents will not be buying kids games for £75, it's just not going to happen.

@naruball Competition IS good. Trust me, if Nintendo didn't have competition, Mario Kart would be $150

It's a matter of when, and not if, at this point that PS does the same. I really hate this timeline.

@bleeflooflah I don't think it's that simple. People will pay for whatever they think it's worth their money with or without competition.

@wildcat_kickz I agree about the first part, but even with zero other options, I don't think people will necessarily buy a certain product. Not if they consider it too expensive or if they're simply not interested enough in it.

Gaming is a luxury people I don't know when people will realize this your hobby u love will cost u a lot money

The troll-shielding in here is insane.

maybe wont raises game prices in the next few months they can take the high road and say look at greedy nintendo and xbox..

Nintendo and Trump ruining gaming wasn’t on my bingo card for this year but here we are.

Luckily I can still afford to have gaming as an interest due to my income but this is just awful for the consumer, consoles are meant to be the entrance point for players, and now they’re continuing to price people out, don’t be surprised if the PS6 and Xbox 2027/28 console end up costing near £900.

At that point I may just cut the safety rope and fully integrate into PC gaming.

This is why the economic system we live in is so disgusting. Xbox has an earnings report where they announce they are finally seeing some growth due to some smart changes in terms of a more multiplat approach. An approach that in some ways is even more gamer friendly, especially more so than what Sony has done this gen.

So then just a day or two later, these little fat pigs in the boardroom decide the next best course of action is to raise the price of everything just to squeeze the masses a little more and continue the trajectory of pricing some people out of their platform.

All in the midst of an economic climate where purchasing power of the vast majority of the world is low and projected to continue to worsen in the foreseeable future.

All the while you have a game like expedition 33 coming out for sub 50 and is better than 99% of the AAA output we've seen this entire generation. But with a fraction of the dev team, budget, and in less than 5 years.

Genius.... You don't want my money anymore MS and Sony? No worries, I will oblige.

@Grumblevolcano there is no way the series s is worth £300

@naruball Sure, in theory there are limits to how much a monopolist company could push the bounds, but what I'm saying is they would have more latitude to push further because there isn't a point of comparison or competition. This is why monopolies are so bad. If you normalize that games cost $150 dollars and there isn't another company to provide a cheaper alternative, people who can afford it, by and large, would eventually relent and people who would previously consider it too expensive, over time, might be too frustrated on missing out and would just save more to participate.

The argument you're making is predicated on a pre-established notion of worth, but if only one company sets the rules, that perspective slowly shifts.

There's never going to be a unilateral video games industry, so this is all hypothetical.

Think of it this way: if you live in a town with only one restaurant and it's Valentine's Day, that restaurant could charge way more than they otherwise would have, if people had other options. Sure, plenty of people would just say "screw it" and find something else to do, but I bet you that that restaurant would be packed each and every Valentine's Day, regardless of how much they charge.

This is almost certainly a result of the tariffs and honestly doesnt impact me much now.

Goes back to a certain figurehead saying some kids will just have to go without toys.

Let’s not forget Sony started this at the beginning of the generation with increases.

Looks like I’ll be buying fewer games moving forward…

The PS5 Pro at £700 with that 2tb ssd storage and other upgrades, even though a bit expensive is looking better everyday now price wise.

People made $70 a standard and they will accept $80, like they said when price jumped from 60 to 70, it's just $10... Well it's just another $10!
Now I believe GTA6 will be at least $90 at release!
I think it's time for console gamers to start thinking about building a PC, maybe a low or mid tier if it is too expensive to get PC that can do shiny graphics!

Who'd of thunk it given costs of shipping, inflation and generally still possibly making money off of that $70b purchase of Activision amongst other things

Failing brand seeks to right their loss via the consumer. Remember the Sega as another struggles forward.

@Oram77 i agree, it is surely a guess. But the CEO did say a while back their games were worth more in a round about ways. Throw in the new $79.99 price tags and it sure seems like it wouldn’t be a surprise now. Until we see it, it’s a guess, but it’s a solid guess. Hopefully i am wrong!

I bought every electronic device I needed to survive the Trump tariff war a few months ago. I'm good.

Not budging would be an amazing power move and put a lot of things in their favor despite already having price adjustments over the years. Heck, bonus points if GTA6 really does end up being expensive and they make a bundle to mitigate that. The latter would a bit similar to the MKW situation, but it's 3rd party and the demand game-wise is even crazier.

Of course I still wouldn't be happy about GTA6 being more in the first place. Speculation of it being $100 before even $80 already seemed crazy... now we're already here on other platforms.

And you know this has GOT to be extremely tempting to Sony because everyone constantly talks about how much money goes into their games it's not like the system isn't selling either. Guess we'll see what happens.

Thanks trump 🥴

@naruball you're right, competition isn't the only part of the equation in regards to price inflation. However, what I'm suggesting is that if competition did NOT exist in the game's space, we would be paying even MORE for games/accessories than we are now.

@JalapenoSpiceLife I would wait another month till Days of Play and see if hardware gets a discount during that. Im considering a Pro aswell if it gets discounted and sell my standard PS5, since i decided to not get a Switch 2.

@Nalim it’s so worth it right now. Most devs are taking advantage of the extra BHP for sure. I’m currently playing Shadows and it looks fantastic! Games that have impressed me most on the PRO are GT7 for the added ray traced reflections in game and the toggle in settings for something, can’t remember what it’s called, but it makes the VR version look 4k seriously! that’s a PRO benefit. God of war Ragnarok looks unbelievable! Spider-Man 2 gorgeous! AC-Shadows particularly in the autumn season is drop dead stunning. But my favourite I’ve seen on PRO in terms of improvements is FF7 Rebirth. Proper eye candy that is. I don’t know if you are into these titles but these are the games I recommend playing first if you get one.

@PlatinumMikey Yeah i have all of those games, except Shadows. But i'll get that when its discounted. And also DS2, Ghost 2 and GTAVI ( hopefully ) coming this year. I'll wait for Days of Play though and see if theres a discount first, only a couple weeks till that.

@Nalim you’re laughing all the way then mate!. And yeah I do like the days of play myself 😁 always bargains to be had. Hope they knock a bit off for you that would be an immense PR move from Sony after the Xbox news today

@Bamila that is the price point I set last Generation and still stick to it. I haven't bought a game on release day in years.

Still cheap enough for me

Microsoft - a trillion-dollar company - wants to double its value at the expense of gamers, who will most likely have to sell an arm and a leg (in addition to a kidney or two) to afford its console and games.
If there is Satan of the gaming world, Microsoft really is the top contender.

Sony, take the PR chance! It will turn to profit anyway!

The game price increase is worrying but the increase of Xbox consoles prices is slightly histerical! Good luck selling them, team Xbox!

@wildcat_kickz I'm afraid we're past the point of no return on capitalism, like democracy, in the US. People were never meant to be billionaires living to be 90 years old. People were meant to die penniless at 50. And now the.01% are trying to make the 99.9% die at 50 so they can keep being billionaires until 90.

Sure, maybe the US can survive 3 1/2 years of this crime syndicate government hell bent on killing us all and destroying the planet, maybe democracy can prevail. But not fair and honest capitalism. That ship has sailed. Too many people. Too few ultra rich folk to keep each other honest. It's all insider trading and collusion now. They build enough AI and robots that won't even need us.

The world is full of fools and their money. For the rest of us, porn and legal weed. 🍆🍑🌿

70 was my limit I will not be buying games at 80 bucks that is hard no I will only get them when the are used or on sale ! I will not be getting the switch 2 because of prices of system and games and I was going to get the grand kids A couple of them but nope not now !

$80 = 1.3 million IDR for me and that's a lot of money for just one game. I really hope Sony don't follow Nintendo and MS footsteps. But after they increaced PS+ price, big chance they will do it too.

sigh...video games became more and more expensives. I guess right now i will played a lot of backlogs / old games and for new games i will buy it when they're really cheap or secondhand.

@Tomato_Goose Well think about it, under-cutting the competition by keeping cheaper prices would be a good incentive for the masses to support their platform over others. It's just good business. Why charge more when everyone else is trying to just because when you can get all the sales by being the cheaper option?

Ghost of Yotei will be the last £70 game Sony releases. Expect price increase announcements for the US and games coming soon.

This just guarantees I won't buy a single Xbox game at launch ever. Once the inevitable price increase hits PlayStation games, that will be the case with them too. The only game I'd buy regardless of price would be Horizon 3 because I'm a huge fan, but otherwise there's not a chance in hell I'm spending $80 for a game. That's just greed.

Even if Game Pass price hike is just matter of "when" not "if" it's really goes to distance with value proposition.

Just imagine having amount of games they are offering for 20$ per month vs. having to buy every game for 80$.

MS does not need to increase price of game pass as PS players are funding it pretty well currently

Honestly, I don´t care about games price at all because I buy day1 few times per generation. I decide when the price is OK for me and I´m old enough to be influenced by FOMO. The same I did when prices 50/60/70 and will do when price is 80. I have so huge backlog of games (physical and digital) that I don´t need to buy new game for next 2-3 years...

@Tomato_Goose A good reputation means alot Nintendo lately has gotten a real bad reputation likely decreasing sales by very large amounts.

If it’s being implemented now, then they’ve been preparing it for a good while. Nintendo was just the first company to show this hike was happening because it was tied to their new console reveal.

Ps+ was hiked in price, games aren’t tariff-proof, and Nintendo doesn’t control the world market lol

@rjejr touché