XBox is in Trouble, Sunday News Shows How Serious a Problem It Now Faces

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 02, 2026

Microsoft's "XBox" results (whatever they choose to call or re-classify as "XBox") were appalling. Today the media dumps some more negative news, which will repel anyone foolish enough to still purchase an XBox console:

Microsoft President Reacts to Xbox’s Poor Financial Results and Reveals His Plan to Turn the Gaming Business Around

Okay, let's listen...

Microsoft Confirms Major Xbox Price Increase Across Europe and the UK

Oh. That's... not good. It won't help sales, will it?

The gist of it:

Xbox has finally revealed the price hikes recently rolled out across its hardware, and Xbox consoles in the UK are now between 34 and 49 percent more expensive than they were last month.

Last month we published several short articles explaining why the console was doomed. We said that seeing it was barely visible in the market anymore, it would only be a matter of time before the hardware becomes useless, orphaned, obsolete. Recently, some people could not play their physical games due to a DRM downtime! Now watch the extreme price increases.

XBox is in terrible shape [1, 2] and it seems impossible to resuscitate at this point. It is unsustainable, according to the CEO. The sooner they kill it, the less money they will lose. █

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