What will Microsoft’s 2023 be like? The future of Xbox and Microsoft will be full of important challenges, beyond what the next few months of 2023 will have in store for all players and beyond. However, in recent weeks numerous rumors have emerged about what the Xbox pricing policy could be for the year that has just arrived.
In fact, we are talking about a increased overhead for hardware and subscription services of the crusade green company, going in line with what are the needs that have emerged following the recent increase in the cost of Xbox exclusives. Phil Spencer has repeatedly defined the increase in the prices of games as “inevitable”, obligatorily following what have been some of the last heavy choices regarding Sony’s pricing policy.
However, the latest statements by Dr. Serkan Toton of Kantan Games to the microphones of GI.biz would refer to a more complex and less pleasant reality for players, as he believes that the transition from $60 to $70 of Xbox games will be just the tip of the iceberg. “Not all studios have raised prices so far to keep up with rising production costs, but gamers are likely to see prices rise across the board in 2023“.
These are the statements of Toton, the analyst who works at Kantan Games who believes it is not an increase that will involve only video games in the strict sense: “I believe that this trend will not involve only AAA titles, but subscriptions and hardware as well, especially from MicrosoftNonetheless, for Serkan Toton himself it would seem that Nintendo will not be directly affected by the necessary price increase, unless the arrival of the much-rumored Pro version of Nintendo Switch occurs.
What the future of Xbox and Microsoft holds for users? Unfortunately there is no way to know for sure yet, although industry experts believe that alignment with Sony in terms of price management policy will be inevitable. The economic problems involve the whole planet and the hardware manufacturers, although Nintendo is the only one that has not currently declared any increase in hardware and/or software costs.
