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Microsoft promotes Xbox console trade-ins as costs rise
What happened
Microsoft is encouraging US owners of unused Xbox Series X and Series S consoles to trade them in through Best Buy, offering up to $375 and $200 respectively in store credit. The source states the campaign follows successive price increases driven by rising memory and storage costs and is intended to make second-hand consoles available to other customers.
Impact and signal
Low impactImpact score: 20/100
Affected components and suppliers
Xbox Series XXbox Series S
trade-in programBest Buystore creditprice increasesmemory costsstorage costs
Source and time
Source: eeNews Europe · 10/29/2026 · View original source
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