The price increase comes hot off the heels of Nintendo’s announcement of Switch 2. The price increases are taking effect globally, although Xbox hasn’t currently announced what games we might see get a higher price. Here’s what you can expect Xbox consoles to cost from now on. This could even affect the way games are made, or the kind of monetization models that implemented moving forward. “History suggests once prices increase in consumer electronics markets, they rarely revert even if the original economic pressures subside,” Dreunen says.