{"id":963149,"date":"2025-09-20T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963149"},"modified":"2025-09-20T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:49:33","slug":"microsoft-hikes-xbox-prices-in-us-once-again-as-tariff-challenges-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/20\/microsoft-hikes-xbox-prices-in-us-once-again-as-tariff-challenges-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft hikes Xbox prices in US once again as tariff challenges persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Microsoft said on Friday it is raising the prices of its Xbox gaming consoles in the U.S. for a second time this year, as the cloud giant&#8217;s video game division grapples with tariff-induced cost pressures, strong competition and uncertain spending.<\/p>\n<p>The price increases, which Microsoft attributes to &#8220;changes in the macroeconomic environment,&#8221; will apply to its current generation of hardware, with the one-terabyte Series S set to cost around $450 and the high-end Series X around $650 when the changes go into effect on October 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Microsoft said on Friday it is raising the prices of its Xbox gaming consoles in the U.S. for a second time this year, as the cloud giant&#8217;s video game division grapples with tariff-induced cost pressures, strong competition and uncertain spending. The price increases, which Microsoft attributes to &#8220;changes in the macroeconomic environment,&#8221; will apply to its current generation of hardware, with the one-terabyte Series S set to cost around $450 and the high-end Series X around $650 when the changes go into effect on October 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963149","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}