Mike Ybarra continues to show his resentment towards Microsoft, even though he is still wrong

Mike Ybarra blasts Xbox for the price hike, but the facts debunk his argument.

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Since leaving Microsoft, Mike Ybarra (former head of Xbox Live and other divisions of the brand) has never hidden a certain resentment towards the company. On more than one occasion, he has taken to social media to launch barbs at his former colleagues, and the recent price hike of Xbox Series consoles in the United States has been the perfect excuse to do so again.

The former Microsoft and Xbox executive hasn’t missed the opportunity to comment on the price increase of the consoles and launch a new attack on the company. On social media, he wrote: «Console price hikes are not a tariff problem, they’re a profit problem. And the reason profits aren’t where they should be is a much, much deeper issue than the tariff excuse».

A forceful response from the social media community itself

What’s interesting is that Ybarra’s own post received a note from the X community clarifying that the tariff hike in the United States is real and responds to an official policy of the Donald Trump government. In other words, beyond the former executive’s personal criticism, the facts confirm that there is an economic context that justifies part of the measure.

Ybarra’s reaction is no surprise, given his history of criticism with the company since he left the Xbox division. Although on this occasion, and not for the first time, his message has clashed with concrete data, which once again opens up the debate about whether his interventions are more about old scores to settle than a genuine analysis of the industry.