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Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 week ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Xbox first party titles expected to hit $80 USD this holiday; Game Pass pricing currently unchanged.

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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think all Xboxes have been PCs...?

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, there's always someone bringing this up, but you can't just run Steam on it, and that's what's about to change. Xbox games still go through cert and need explicit ports above and beyond the PC SKU.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Ya for sure, I'm just speaking on a hardware level. Always been x86 as far as I was aware. I remember bypassing the disk encryption fighting every fiber of my being on the Xbox 1 by pulling out the IDE cable as it was booting to gain access to the HDD 😂