The Outer Worlds 2 will no longer be Microsoft’s first $80 Xbox game

Microsoft-owned developer Obsidian Entertainment is announcing a terms drop for the The Outer Worlds 2 today. The crippled was primitively supposed to debut astatine $79.99 successful October, but it’s present going backmost to the regular $69.99 Xbox crippled price.

Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would beryllium raising the terms of caller Xbox first-party games from $69.99 to $79.99, alongside increases to its consoles and controllers. The determination to abruptly driblet the terms of The Outer Worlds 2 is simply a wide motion that preorders haven’t gone excessively good and that gamers are rejecting Microsoft’s archetypal determination to $79.99 Xbox games.

If you’ve already purchased the crippled past refunds volition beryllium handled by the Microsoft Store, Steam, PlayStation store oregon wherever you preordered The Outer Worlds 2.

Other first-party Xbox games coming this vacation volition besides beryllium sold astatine $69.99, alternatively of Microsoft’s caller $79.99 pricing. “We’re focused connected bringing players unthinkable worlds to explore, and volition support our afloat priced vacation releases, including The Outer Worlds 2, astatine $69.99 – successful enactment with existent marketplace conditions,” says an unnamed Xbox spokesperson successful a connection to IGN.

It volition beryllium absorbing to spot whether Microsoft continues to propulsion its caller Xbox crippled pricing successful the caller year, oregon whether this is simply a motion that it’s afloat rethinking the summation to $79.99.

Update, July 23rd: Article updated with Xbox statement.