The CFO of the Xbox division, Tim Stuart, discussed the price of video games and the cost of making first-party titles on next-generation consoles. Xbox series s e Xbox Series X, reiterating how Microsoft products has not yet decided on the figure.
Tim Stuart said, “I don't think we're going to make any announcements about the selling price of video games. We will evaluate the choices with the publishers and try to find an appropriate price for video games on the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X. If they can push the selling price higher, I think it is justified. The cost of selling video games in these generations hasn't gone up, so it wouldn't be an unheard of choice if it were to increase. What increases is the cost of developing video games. So publishers and content creators want to earn the right amount from sales, since that's what it takes to keep making new titles, if they didn't have adequate income they wouldn't be able to make new content ».
