Microsoft's official U.S. price for the translucent Xbox Series X25 is still $899.99, and the Microsoft Store is sold out. GameStop itself listed a new unit at $4,950 earlier Friday. As of Friday evening, that same page was showing $1,995, still more than double the official price. This is retailer pricing, not an Xbox hike.
GameStop had the sold-out Xbox Series X25 up for $4,950 on Friday. That is not Microsoft raising the price of the console. The official U.S. price is still $899.99, and the Microsoft Store is out of stock.
This is the translucent OG Green 25th anniversary Series X: a 1TB disc-drive model, individually numbered, packed in with a matching special edition controller and a download of Halo: Campaign Evolved. Microsoft’s store listing says only 25,000 of those numbered consoles are going to the public. Xbox Wire set the U.S. MSRP at $899.99 when pre-orders opened, and limited it to one per customer. Official stock disappeared in seconds this week, the same pattern we laid out in our launch-day restock guide.
The $4,950 figure was a GameStop listing, not a third-party marketplace seller hiding on GameStop’s site. The product page names GameStop as the seller and lists the unit as new, under SKU 450871. Kotaku added it to a cart earlier Friday at $4,950, then watched $7.99 in shipping and $353.26 in tax bring the total to $5,311.25. GameSpot called it GameStop’s dynamic pricing system. The same number was all over X, and it trended under the headline "GameStop Lists Xbox 25th Anniversary Console for $4,950, Drawing Fan Backlash."
The price did not stay there. As of about 6:20 PM ET Friday, that same GameStop product page was showing $1,995.00 for a new unit. The on-page status language included "Currently Unavailable," while the listing’s structured data still marked the offer as in stock. Insider Gaming also watched the price fall to $1,995 while its writer had the page open, and said it had reached out to GameStop for comment. $1,995 is still more than double the official $899.99 price.
Fans called it scalping. One post GameSpot highlighted asked Xbox, directly, why it still partners with a retailer that treats MSRP this way.
As of Friday evening, we could not find a public statement from GameStop or Microsoft about the listing. Insider Gaming said it asked GameStop and had not published a reply in that piece.
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Kotaku’s best guess is that GameStop was trying to price-match the aftermarket. That is Kotaku’s guess, not a GameStop explanation. GameSpot said eBay sales of the console were averaging around $2,500. Kotaku saw listings around $1,700, with one as high as $2,395.95. We did not independently survey those marketplaces. Kotaku also said Walmart pulled the console from its store entirely.
If you want one at the official price, this GameStop page is not it. Watch the Microsoft Store and the usual retailer restocks, and start with our November 12 stock guide. Do not pay $4,950, and $1,995 is still a retailer markup, not an Xbox hike. Elsewhere this week, Xbox is also rolling out 25th anniversary freebies you can actually claim without a four-figure sticker.
Sources
- GameStop: Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition product page
- Microsoft Store: Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition, $899.99, out of stock
- Xbox Wire (August 26, 2026): Pre-orders Begin Today for the Xbox 25th Anniversary Collection
- Kotaku: The 25th Anniversary Xbox Is So Impossible To Find Even GameStop Is Selling It For $5,000
- GameSpot: The Xbox 25th Anniversary Console Restock Sold Out Before You Could Finish Reading This Headline
- Insider Gaming: GameStop Charges $4,950 for X25 Xbox Console, Then Suddenly Halves the Price
- Xbox News & Deals (@XboxStockAlerts) on X
- ATP (@AteThePrincess) on X
- X trending: GameStop Lists Xbox 25th Anniversary Console for $4,950, Drawing Fan Backlash
- OnPoint: Missed the Xbox Series X25? Xbox Is Putting Launch Day Stock on Shelves November 12 at Midnight
- OnPoint: Xbox 25th anniversary freebies
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