{"id":1016974,"date":"2026-06-26T08:15:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016974"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:45:25","slug":"xbox-to-raise-console-prices-worldwide-from-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/26\/xbox-to-raise-console-prices-worldwide-from-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox to raise console prices worldwide from August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox is raising prices of its gaming \u200bconsoles by up \u200bto $150 worldwide, citing a deepening global components crisis \u200bthat has sent storage and memory costs soaring across the consumer electronics industry. <\/p>\n<p>Groups representing automakers, retailers, electronics firms and others had \u200cwarned earlier \u2060this \u2060month that the increasing demand for memory chips could lead to \u200bdramatic price hikes in U.S. consumer goods and disrupt supply chains. <\/p>\n<p>Effective \u200bAugust 1, the price of Xbox consoles will increase by $100 for 512 GB models and $150 for 1 \u200bTB models. Microsoft will also discontinue \u2060its 2 \u200cTB model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox is raising prices of its gaming \u200bconsoles by up \u200bto $150 worldwide, citing a deepening global components crisis \u200bthat has sent storage and memory costs soaring across the consumer electronics industry. Groups representing automakers, retailers, electronics firms and others had \u200cwarned earlier \u2060this \u2060month that the increasing demand for memory chips could lead to \u200bdramatic price hikes in U.S. consumer goods and disrupt supply chains. Effective \u200bAugust 1, the price of Xbox consoles will increase by $100 for 512 GB models and $150 for 1 \u200bTB models. Microsoft will also discontinue \u2060its 2 \u200cTB model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017001,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016974\/revisions\/1017001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}