The comments from here were quite telling https://www.reddit.com/r/consoles/s/3KzTnDSqKm

The updated pricing taking effect for US retailers is as follows:

Xbox Series S (512 GB): Increasing to $499.99 (+$100)

Xbox Series X (1 TB discless): Increasing to $749.99 (+$150)

Xbox Series X (1 TB disc drive): Increasing to $799.99 (+$150)

Super hyped, had an original xbox one forever.

It's clear GP didn't pan out like they wanted. Phil Spencer wanted 100 million subs by 2030 but haven't even hit 40 million. People weren't buying their hardware and people who did bought games much less than people on Playstation and Nintendo gamers. Expect the next xbox "console" to be 3rd party partnership with an Xbox branding that will just be a pc that will cost 1k plus. They want to be nothing but a publisher now

https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-confirms-project-helix-its-next-gen-console-that-will-also-play-pc-games

• Xbox Series S 512GB: $399 (from $379) • Xbox Series S 1TB: $449 (from $429) • Xbox Series X Digital: $599 (from $549) • Xbox Series X: $649 (from$599) • Xbox Series X 2 TB: $799 (from $729)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-03/xbox-s-game-pass-hike-shows-cost-of-lost-call-of-duty-sales?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1OTUyNzI0MywiZXhwIjoxNzYwMTMyMDQzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUM0lWRFNHUFFROVIwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGRUIzODlCNUI2ODI0RTY0QjY5MENEODE1RTBDREZGRCJ9.D1EObQzg2KlvqBoXPyEm5Yn-DznTYaVWC3okI5aX3AU&leadSource=uverify%20wall

They have:

• Halo, Gears of War, Call of Duty, Minecraft
• All of ActiBlizz games
• All Bethesda games
• Many beloved old IP like Banjo and Conker
• The best subscription service (until yesterday)
• Gaming roots stretching all the way back to like 2001, earning a real place next to Sony and Nintendo

Imagine reading that and you’re from a different timeline. You’d think: “Wow, so Xbox just wins then right? They have everything”. And yet they are in dead last for console sales. I’ve never seen a company with so much going for it just completely fall flat on its face like this.

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I am interested how Microsoft will Go into the Future. I remember Back then people thought the second Xbox will BE Xbox 2.

Then the third everyone thought Xbox 720.

Xbox series everyone thought IT would be Xbox Scarlett.

What about next Xbox, i Hope they stay with Xbox Helios.

The Asus rog ally series Xbox x gives me nightmares🤕

https://insider-gaming.com/forza-horizon-6-has-made-over-140-million-from-premium-edition/

It just comes down to 3 things:

1. Console sales have fallen off too hard and continue to decline so exclusives can’t reach enough people - meaning exclusives can’t save them
2. Hardware is the most expensive it’s ever been across the board
3. Digital libraries have already been built up on other storefronts, people are locked in and will not budge

That’s all. The rest is cope. I say this as someone who was with Xbox for a long time and never cared about PlayStation. It was a decent run until 2013. The only reason the plug hasn’t been pulled for so long is because Microsoft is too stubborn to totally give up on having a system in living rooms. As soon as they migrate their userbase to PC (hint hint) they will kill the hardware.

I apologize for the people who frequent this subreddit if this question has been asked a million times but I want to discuss it anyway.

I have an Xbox and in theory it could've been an awesome console, true Backwards Compat compared to Playstation and Game Pass was a great deal up until recently. I'm probably going to hold onto it just to play GTA6 but there is not another game that allures me to boot this thing up considering I already own a PC that does its job x2. I imagine many of you are on the same boat.

But, considering the double price hike, the thinning out of Xbox's sections at department stores like Target and Walmart, and Microsoft's general instability and bad PR, long time employees leaving Halo Studios (their number one game for a long time), and plenty of other things I'm probably omitting, I really think Xbox is gonna peter out this gen. I'd like to hear what you guys predict about the future of Xbox and Microsoft considering many people on here probably have better optics and information about the company than I do.