And this is why you don't enable nintendo...

 So...now Microsoft is raising their prices. A lot. Some of this stuff can possibly be explained by tariffs, and to some extent, well, what can you do? Orange man is screwing up the global economy and the businesses ARE going to pass that along to the customer. That's just the nature of things. However, let's be honest. Unlike nintendo, Microsoft is an American company. And its games are made...by Americans. And their prices are going up to...to match Nintendo's. And their premium is now what it would be...over nintendo normally. Like $600-700 console instead of $500ish? That's why nintendo charging $450 for their crap seemed so bad to me. They're the "cheap option", and now microsoft is looking at things and raising theirs to match what they should be over nintendo. Again, a 5 year old console shouldnt go up in price, and quite frankly, i dont look forward to "next gen" being $600-700 either. I can't afford that crap. Well, to be fair I'm on PC and kinda can....but I buy my stuff piece by piece over a few years and I also dont pay for their BS subscriptions. 

Either way, this is just gonna make the bar higher price wise for EVERYTHING. The era of affordable electronics is over. Again, to some extent it is what it is, tariffs are screwing us, but let's face it, part of it is also corporate greed. Keep in mind, most 2020s era inflation is actually greedflation. Corporations using legit crises like supply chain issues in 2021 and tariffs in 2025 just to charge whatever they want.

Well, as we've been discussing lately, microsoft aint...doing well. And there's talk that they're not even gonna have a next gen console and they're just gonna focus on game pass. Honestly as a PC gamer I'm fine with that as I can play their games on PC...but OOF at the $80 price, and let's face it, there's ZERO excuse for that. They just saw nintendo do it and are copying them. Again, you're talking an american company with american studios in the US making games they sell DIGITALLY. You can't just say "BuT TaRiFfs" on that unless they're just raising prices generally to eat the cost of tariffs, and I'm not sure that's what they're doing here. 

Either way, this is bad for consumers and we need less people to be like WELL ACKSHULLY IF YOU ACCOUNT FOR WHAT STUFF COST IN 1997....

 NO ONE CARES.

Heck, I'll let someone else actually be my anger translator on that one. Seriously, stop simping for corporations you fricking idiots.