A real commercial success for this 9th generation console, the Xbox Series S has enabled many gamers around the world to obtain next-gen performance at a lower cost in a machine with many qualities. The past few months have only confirmed this with record sales and impressive price drops for the Series S, but that’s not true for all markets.
Xbox Series S price exceeds $450 in India
Since 2020, the Indian market hasn’t been the best performer for Xbox and PlayStation remains ahead in this area. The causes ? A fairly weak communication from the Redmond firm and little effort to promote its consoles and services to the Indian public.
It was an Indian specialist in the gaming industry, a certain Rishi Alwani, who revealed that the Xbox Series S will now cost INR 39,990, or approximately $483. Note that a previous increase that occurred six months ago had already placed the price of the Series S around $458.
This sum is impressive to say the least when you know that the base price of the console is $299, that it is easy to find it around $229 and that it has even fallen below the $200 mark. during the last few weeks. In proportion to this, the Xbox Series X costs INR 55,990 or $675 in India after also increasing.
To compensate for the low interest of Indian gamers in Xbox, the American brand would increase the price of its consoles to reduce the impact of import/export taxes and currency conversion rates. Phil Spencer recently announced that the price of Xbox games will increase this year but it seems that this strategy has finally hit the console market earlier than expected in the Indian market.
