Xbox Controllers Drop to Just £40 in the UK, Avoiding the New Price Hike

You tin inactive drawback Xbox Series X|S consoles astatine their aged prices astatine Amazon successful the UK up of the caller terms hikes, and the retailer is adjacent inactive offering deals connected much of the controllers too, disposable from conscionable £39.95.

Specifically, these are discounts connected assorted coloured wireless controllers successful their old packaging, seemingly offloading pre-2025 banal to marque mode for the latest SKUs successful their new packaging, the second being person to the existent £64.99 RRP that Xbox announced astatine the opening of May.

For example, the Shock Blue controller is inactive the cheapest amongst the non-black and achromatic variations astatine £44.95 nether the "Old Packaging" SKU, portion the "2025 Packaging" SKU is priced astatine £60.95.

Others are a spot much costly — similar the Robot White, Deep Pink, Velocity Green, Carbon Black, and Pulse Red versions, costing astatine slightest £4 more, but they are inactive acold cheaper than they're caller terms tags erstwhile you acquisition 1 successful its caller packaging.

Oddly, determination are 2 listings for the achromatic controller nether the "Old Packing" SKU, with the 2nd bundled with a USB-C cablegram being adjacent cheaper than the Shock Blue by being priced astatine £39.95.

Whether this is owed to an mistake successful Amazon's automated adaptable pricing exemplary oregon simply having excessively galore units of the bundle near remains to beryllium seen.

Whichever way, this is the champion and cheapest mode to bargain an authoritative wireless Xbox Series X|S controller if each you privation is simply a spare and aren't excessively bothered astir adding an other colour to your console set-up.

Then, you person an other for sofa co-op games similar Split Fiction, oregon a back-up for erstwhile your rechargeable artillery runs retired during marathon sessions of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.

Once these cheaper units successful their older packaging merchantability out, it looks similar that volition beryllium the extremity of being capable to drawback a brand-new Xbox controller for nether £55 extracurricular of a sale. With that, we'd urge grabbing 1 portion you inactive can.

Ben Williams – IGN freelance contributor with implicit 10 years of acquisition covering gaming, tech, film, TV, and anime. Follow him connected Twitter/X @BenLevelTen.