Following the quality that Sony volition increase the terms of the PlayStation 5 successful respective markets, Microsoft has confirmed that it is not readying akin moves to set the terms of the Xbox Series X and S.

In a connection to Windows Central, Microsoft confirmed that determination are nary plans to rise the terms of the Xbox Series X oregon Series S and that the consoles volition stay astatine their existent terms successful the US, UK, and Europe.

Microsoft says the Series S suggested retail terms volition stay astatine $299 and the Series X volition stay astatine $499.

The connection follows the quality from earlier that Sony volition beryllium adjusting the terms of the PlayStation 5 successful Europe, the UK, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Canada. In a PlayStation Blog, the institution announced a ~$50 terms summation for the PlayStation 5 and PS5 Digital Edition successful galore markets citing the planetary ostentation complaint and "adverse currency trends," arsenic the reason.

For illustration successful the UK, the PS5 with a disc thrust volition present outgo £479.99, up from £449.99 and the Digital Edition costs £389.99, up from £359.99.

Sony isn't the lone hardware shaper to summation the terms of its strategy arsenic a effect of the planetary economy. Meta announced earlier this twelvemonth that it volition increase the terms of its fashionable Meta Quest 2 VR headset by $100.

Experts accidental that the planetary proviso concatenation is inactive nether accent starring to these terms increases. Though Ampere Analysis' Piers Harding-Rolls suggests Sony mightiness not beryllium impacted by the terms bump owed to continued demand.

The proviso concatenation has been nether accent since astir the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic and has been exasperated by the planetary system arsenic good arsenic the Russian penetration of Ukraine.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope him @lawoftd.