Costco Has Already Removed Xbox Games, Systems and Products From Its Physical and Digital Stores

[Grand Conde]

Costco isn't looking like the place to go for Xbox products this holiday. Ahead of the 2025 holiday season, Costco stores have been removing all Xbox consoles, gift cards and products from their shelves across the US. This comes directly after Microsoft's recent announcement that it would be raising prices on the Xbox Series consoles in response to "changes in the macroeconomic environment."

This is almost certainly due to the US' aggressive tariff policies, which have put a strain on companies like Microsoft that outsource the creation of their products to other countries. Earlier this year, Nintendo came under fire for increasing the prices of its upcoming games for the new Switch 2 system to $80, including Mario Kart World and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Switch 2 edition. The "macroeconomic environment" is definitely making things difficult for game companies this year, but Costco's latest move paints a grim picture for Xbox fans in particular.

Costco Removes All Xbox Consoles & Products From US Stores After Prices Skyrocket to $600

 

[Scaaar]

Damn homie. In high school you was the man homie

 

[GambinoMakeItWork]

Kirkland stans

 

[Rice N Beans]

Dang I thought it was just the hardware since, well, Xbox hardware. But the gift cards too? That's a sign of something else if they bush the gift cards.

 

[My Girl is Bow Legged]

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Dead brand

 

[Zero]

Kirkland stans

 

[King Sun]

funny thing Costco pushed the Xbox brand heavy since the kinect

 

[The Guru]

They need space for something more desirable and trendy like bags of manure.

 

[Jaguar93]

Sam’s Club it is

 

[Bryan Danielson]

*Cancels Costco’s membership effective immediately……

 

[Rekkapryde]

*Cancels Costco’s membership effective immediately……

they told Trump to kiss their ass about DEI and he ain't do shyt.

Walmart/Sams on the other hand .

 

[Fatboi1]

1st off, you can't sperate Xbox from MS. The absolute biggest hurdle to Xbox's brand is that it's a Microsoft piece of hardware.


I'll give you a hint of how I stay on top of the noise, narratives and opinions.


The financials the truth can always be found in the money trail. Not the surface level arm chair numbers used to cause FUD either.

I've been invested in MS since they were 35 bucks a share, I've followed gaming financials and the market for decades now.


On top of that I've been blessed enough (somehow) to sit in meeting after meeting for BILLION dollar companies, from acquisition, to hostile take overs, billion dollar negotiations at what looks like a table full of Illuminati members. I've had the privilege to sit and be part of meetings with the CEO's, CFO's, CIO's, CMO's, CLO's...

I've been HAD to be present for information that was highly sensitive, I've watched the listed above be mad stressed out day in and day out, because one day they have to get in front of people and tell them the truth in a open in way but still be the truth, and then turn around and do exactly what they said but not in the way they knew people would interpret it.

I'm not built for that life, but it opened my eyes to how major corporations work from the top top down, so maybe it's just a case of things that Microsoft reports seems pretty standard from where I sit.


I have no reason for concern especially when it comes to Xbox gaming, like I said I'm more confident/pleased with it from an investors side and consumer side than I have ever been and the fact that gamepass team didn't get TOUCHED at all tells me than the numbers must be in line, add to that that hardware was double downed on and gamepass still hasn't gone up in price yet this year tells me that the game pass/console ecosystem is extremely valuable to them in manners that they probably don't even really want to share with the Ops. Let them catch up, just like with "MAU's"

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Man if Sony stan’s didn’t have xbox to talk about, what would yall do with yourselves

 

[Cladyclad]

Them shyts at Marshalls lol