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Xbox’s new handheld will run you a cool thousand dollars

Grant St. Clair
Oct 07, 2025
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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

Have you noticed that every time Xbox has been in the news lately, it’s because of intense sticker shock? This is a rare marketing maneuver called ‘shooting yourself in the foot’. Xbox clearly isn’t taking that blood-dripping foot off the gas, between that infamous Game Pass price hike and their newest announcement: a thousand-dol…

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