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Xbox price increases across the UK and Europe have been revealed, reports the Video Games Chronicle. Promotional graphics for these markets show that Microsoft is stoking prices up as much as £170 or €200, depending on the model buyers are interested in. The confirmation comes a little more than a week after it was revealed that U.S. customers were going to be facing Xbox price increases by as high as $150 from August 1.The unquenchable thirst of AI data centers for computing hardware has precipitated the unusual sight of consoles actually getting more expensive as their life cycle extends. Now we are seeing consoles priced as much as $300 more than when they originally launched in 2020. Yes, this latest price rise isn’t the first.The worst hit are those looking for the most capable SKUs. Specifically, all the big numbers we’ve used to illustrate the scale of these rises reference the Xbox Series X (1TB, Disc) pricing. This device now costs $799 in the U.S., £669 in the UK, and €799 in Europe. Check the table below for the full range of SKUs and new prices.
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The latest Xbox price hikes
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