It ’s Sunday , meaning it ’s time for us to name our winner and our loser from the last week in tech .
Quite a bit has bump over this last week . Amazon officially announceda engagement for its Prime Daysummer sale , Nintendo announced a riches of new Switch title at its June Nintendo Direct and Mark Zuckerberg agreed to take on Elon Musk ina cage fightwe hope we never have to see .
Scroll down to discover our winner and our loser from this preceding week …
Winner: Mario fans
Nintendo shared some exciting word for Mario rooter at this week ’s Nintendo Direct event .
The late Direct of the class included a look at the novel characters and areas do with this year ’s Pokemon Scarlet and Violet expanding upon , along with more details about the upcoming Pikmin 4 . The Switch - Jehovah also harbinger five major update to the Mario franchise .
The biggest news comes in the form of a Modern 2D platformer titledSuper Mario Bros. Wonder . The game includes Luigi , Peach , Daisy , Toad and Yoshi and , of course , Mario ( in both human and elephant physique ) .
The twist come in the kind of a raw ability - up called the Wonder Flower .
“ When you touch a Wonder Flower in the game , the wonder of the human race unlock – pipes could come alive , hordes of enemies may appear , eccentric might deepen their looks , for example – transforming the gameplay in unpredictable ways , ” explained Nintendo .
The company also announced a remaking of the classic SNES game Super Mario RPG : Legend of the Seven Stars ( simply entitle Super Mario RPG ) and a young Wario game mention WarioWare : Move It ! , with all three game set to fall to the Switch before the end of the year .
Nintendo also tease apart a new Princess Peach secret plan and a port of the 3DS ’s Luigi ’s Mansion : Dark Moon , both of which will be come to the Switch in 2024 .
Loser: Microsoft
Our loser this week is Microsoft after the ship’s company announce it ’ll beraising the cost of both the Xbox Series X console table and Xbox Game Passin the UK .
bug out August 13 , theXbox Series Xwill be UK shoppers £ 479.99 up from £ 449.99 . That ’s a £ 30 increase putting the top - ending Xbox in line with thePlayStation 5 , a console table that see its own controversial price rise just one twelvemonth prior .
The cost ofXbox Game Passwill also be increasing worldwide this summer , meaning gamers will need to fork out £ 12.99 a calendar month alternatively of £ 10.99 for Game Pass Ultimate , or £ 8.99 instead of £ 7.99 for a standard Game Pass subscription .
“ We ’ve have on our prices for consoles for many twelvemonth and have adjusted the prices to reflect the competitive circumstance in each market , ” Xbox ’s head of communications Kari Perez said in a statement shared byThe Verge .
All that being said , If you ’ve been putting off nibble up the current - gen Xbox , now might be the just clip to do it . The console price boost wo n’t come into impression until August 13 , stand for you have just under three weeks to bag the Series X for its original RRP .
Alternatively , you could pick the Series X up for its usual price next time you ’re over in the US seeing as the States wo n’t be seeing the same increment ( that is , provided you have enough space in your hand luggage to block the console home with you ) .
