The previous few years have been tough for avid gamers, with AI-driven worth hikes on reminiscence, GPUs and SSDs hitting PC and console avid gamers’ wallets laborious. Unfortunately, there’s no respite for Xbox followers if a brand new rumor is true about Microsoft’s special-edition translucent inexperienced Xbox — it may allegedly retail for round $900, which is even increased than how costly the console has turn into after a number of worth hikes.
French website Dealabs, which is usually dependable for these sorts of leaks, lists the unit at a €900 worth. Given Microsoft’s tendency to match British and US costs regardless of conversion variations, we’d count on the special-edition console to retail for $900. Dealabs additionally suggests it’s going to have a Nov. 27 launch date, which places the launch proper round Black Friday, although you probably received’t be getting a lot of a reduction throughout it.
A Microsoft Xbox consultant didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
“Presuming the particular twenty fifth anniversary version is in any other case equivalent to a inventory Xbox Series X console, the rumored worth is $100 additional for inexperienced plastic on high of the present $800 worth after hikes. It can be a staggering $400 on high of the Xbox Series X’s launch worth of $500,” stated CNET Managing Editor David Lumb, who obtained to see the console in individual at Microsoft’s Xbox occasion throughout Summer Game Fest in June.
CNET’s sister website IGN (additionally owned by Ziff Davis) famous that it’s a $100 greater than the usual Xbox Series X with a disc drive ($800) and the identical worth as a normal PlayStation 5 Pro ($900). With the extra traditional design components giving avid gamers a throwback to the unique Xbox console that launched 25 years in the past, it’s probably that Microsoft will nonetheless see brisk gross sales from avid gamers pushed by nostalgia.
The unlucky fact is that worth will increase for gaming {hardware} are a actuality of the video games trade proper now, because of rising part costs ensuing from the RAM scarcity, in addition to tariffs and logistical points. Nintendo hasn’t been immune, both, with a worth hike for the Switch 2 beginning Sept. 1, anticipated to deliver the unit as much as $500, a $50 enhance because the console launched final June.
Sony additionally raised the costs of its complete console lineup on April 2, with across-the-board will increase that introduced the PlayStation 5 Pro to $900 (up from $700), the PlayStation 5 with disc reader to $650 (up from $500) and the hand held PlayStation Portal as much as $250 (up from $200).
Microsoft elevated the worth of its consoles twice because the current RAM scarcity and tariff woes, seeing jumps that make its methods far costlier six years after they launched; In each earlier era, consoles have gotten considerably cheaper over time.
The first hike was again in Sept. 2025, which raised costs of its Xbox console lineup with the digital-only Series S 512GB reaching $400 (up from $300), the common Series X with disc drive obtained hiked to $650 (up from $500), and the Series X 2TB Galaxy Black Special Edition raised to $800 (up from $730, itself having gotten a worth bump in May 2025 from $600 the place it began).
The second spherical of Xbox worth hikes was introduced again in June, elevating the Series S 512GB to $500 and 1TB choice to $600, the Series X (digital-only) to $750 and the Series X (disc drive) to $800. In the identical swath of worth will increase, Microsoft introduced it might discontinue the 2TB particular version of the Xbox Series X console, leaving solely 1TB variations left.
As we’ve famous earlier than, gaming over the previous yr or two has more and more felt like a luxurious pastime, and there doesn’t appear to be an finish in sight, despite the fact that RAM worth will increase did gradual in late March and early April.
In the meantime, avid gamers might merely should both pay the brand new, increased costs or proceed utilizing older {hardware}.
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