{"id":867502,"date":"2025-08-23T23:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/after-bullishly-hiking-xbox-games-to-80-microsoft-confirms-u-turn-starting-with-the-outer-worlds-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:13:13","slug":"after-bullishly-hiking-xbox-games-to-80-microsoft-confirms-u-turn-starting-with-the-outer-worlds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/after-bullishly-hiking-xbox-games-to-80-microsoft-confirms-u-turn-starting-with-the-outer-worlds-2\/","title":{"rendered":"After bullishly hiking Xbox games to $80, Microsoft confirms U-turn starting with The Outer Worlds 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has walked back on its previous decision to hike the price of its new first-party Xbox games up to $80 USD this &#8216;holiday season&#8217;, saying it&#8217;s sticking to a lower price point &#8220;in line with current market conditions&#8221;.<br \/>\n Read more&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/after-bullishly-hiking-xbox-games-to-80-microsoft-confirms-u-turn-starting-with-the-outer-worlds-2\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Matt Wales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has walked back on its previous decision to hike the price of its new first-party Xbox games up to $80 USD this &#8216;holiday season&#8217;, saying it&#8217;s sticking to a lower price point &#8220;in line with current market conditions&#8221;. Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":867503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,145771,192],"tags":[5078,145770],"class_list":{"0":"post-867502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-after","8":"category-bullishly","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-after","11":"tag-bullishly"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}