Microsoft‘s head of gaming Phil Spencer has suggested that Xbox consoles, games and subscriptions may increase in price in the future.
“We’re always evaluating our business going forward. So, I don’t think we can ever say on anything that we will never do something,” he said.
“But when we look at our consoles today, and you talked about it—Series X and Series S—we think value is incredibly important. We love the position of Series S in the market, which is our lower cost console. Over half of our new players that we’re finding are coming in through Series S. “And I can definitely say we have no plans today to raise the price of our consoles,” Spencer continued. “We think in a time when our customers are more economically challenged and uncertain than ever, we don’t think it’s the right move for us at this point to be raising prices on our console.”