Xbox Series X is now £670 in UK as Microsoft sneak price hike out at weekend

Who would buy an Xbox console at these prices? (Microsoft)

Microsoft has quietly revealed the new price hikes for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S in the UK, with massive increases of up to £170.

If an American company wants to bury bad news in Europe, then the easiest way to do it is by announcing something after 5pm on a Friday. By that point it’s 6pm on the Continent and most UK outlets have also gone home for the weekend.

Microsoft has gone one step further with the pricing of Xbox consoles and while it’s not entirely clearly when the information was revealed (there was so certainly no formal annoucement) it seems to have happe...