Sooner or later it had to happen. The costs of developing a great triple-A game have skyrocketed for some time. Whenever they are needed more resources, more people (which is usually the biggest expense) and more marketing to be able to compete between so many launches.
Today we can say that the date chosen by Microsoft to raise the prices of its first parties is 2023. Those of Redmond have held the prices for 2 years while the competition increased them.
Xbox exclusives go up in price
Today, thanks to some information which releases IGNwe know that the The first games to notice this increase, which will now drop to $70, will be Starfield, Forza Motorsport 8, and Red Fall. respectively. You can expect an equivalence in Europe similar to what we are currently experiencing.
Understandably, this price hike is happening due to the high costs and complexity of upcoming exclusives, according to a Microsoft spokesperson. However, they take the opportunity to remind that all of them will be released on Xbox Game Pass, which means that the player still has an affordable option to play them without problems.
This price reflects the content, scale and technical complexity of these titles. Like all games developed by our teams on Xbox, they will also be available with Game Pass on the day of their release.
This price increase does not catch us again, in fact you can even expect a hardware price increase since the hardware itself Phil Spencer has already warned this was comingyou just didn’t specify the exact date.
We kept the price on our console, we kept the price of the games and our subscription. I don’t think we can do this forever. I think at some point we will have to increase the prices of certain things.
So it’s time to shell out a bit more for Xbox Game Studios first-party games. What do you think of the climb?
