{"id":58896,"date":"2025-10-03T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/58896\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:04:08","slug":"xboxs-game-pass-hike-shows-cost-of-lost-call-of-duty-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/58896\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox\u2019s Game-Pass Hike Shows Cost of Lost \u2018Call of Duty\u2019 Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/MSFT:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Microsoft Corp.<\/a>\u2019s Xbox division surprised many video game enthusiasts this week when the company announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-01\/microsoft-raises-xbox-game-pass-top-subscription-50-to-30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">50% price hike<\/a>, to $30 a month, for the highest level tier in its Game Pass subscription service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Online reaction was swift, with California Governor Gavin Newsom <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GavinNewsom\" title=\"Click to view webpage.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">blaming<\/a> the price increase on President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs, and video game retailer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/GME:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">GameStop Corp.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gamestop\/status\/1973450799029297648\" title=\"Click to view webpage.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">posting <\/a>a cartoon suggesting customers would be better off just buying games in stores. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft Corp.\u2019s Xbox division surprised many video game enthusiasts this week when the company announced a 50% price&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48837,179,156,48838,2047,5741,42011,111,139,35377,69,48836,145,2673],"class_list":["post-58896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-activision-blizzard","tag-california","tag-entertainment","tag-gamestop-corp-class-a","tag-los-angeles","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-netflix-inc","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nintendo-co-ltd","tag-nz","tag-sony-group-corp","tag-technology","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}