{"id":1272,"date":"2025-05-01T14:40:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2025-05-02T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:29:10","slug":"bad-news-xbox-gamers-consoles-and-video-game-prices-are-going-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/bad-news-xbox-gamers-consoles-and-video-game-prices-are-going-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad news, Xbox gamers: Consoles and video game prices are going up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bad-news-xbox-gamers-consoles-and-video-game-prices-are-goin_tf3m.640.webp\">The changes take effect as of May 1.<\/p>\n<p>Starting today, <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft<\/a> will be raising the recommended retail prices of its Xbox consoles and controllers, and video games are next. Microsoft says some new first-party games will see a holiday season price increase to $79.99.<\/p>\n<p>The news was announced on a May 1 blog post on the &lt;a \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The changes take effect as of May 1. Starting today, Microsoft will be raising the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}