Xbox Game Accidentally Listed for $500

Summary

Golf Up, a new indie game launching on May 1, was accidentally listed for $500 on Xbox.
The pre-order price for Golf Up has since been corrected to $6.99.
Xbox fans suspect the price was inflated just to get the game’s Xbox store page set up before launch.

A new indie golf game named Golf Up was spotted on Xbox‘s store at an incredibly expensive price. Ever since the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal several weeks ago, the issue of increasing video game prices has had many fans concerned, as the new console’s launch title, Mario Kart World, has been confirmed to come with a price tag of $80. Xbox, PlayStation, and PC gamers alike have also been worried about rising game prices, though Golf Up seems to have been an anomaly.

It’s no secret that Xbox has had an incredible 2025 so far. Games like Ninja Gaiden 2 Black and Obsidian’s Avowed kicked off the year strong, while April alone has seen the releases of Compulsion Games’ South of Midnight, Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remaster, and even a big third-party Game Pass drop in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Xbox is sharing the love this month, too, having released Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on PS5 and gearing up to drop its 2021 open world racing masterpiece Forza Horizon 5 on PlayStation as well.

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One new indie golfing game that’s recently appeared on the Xbox Store seems to have been initially priced more expensively than all these aforementioned AAA games combined. Golf Up is a new game set to release on May 1, and originally had a pre-order asking price of $499.99, the price of an Xbox Series X console. Golf Up‘s bold price tag caused a lot of head-scratching among Xbox gamers, who believed it to be a simple mistake.

Golf Up Was Listed at $500 on Xbox

The good news is that Golf Up has since come down from $500 to its intended price of a cool $6.99, pretty much confirming its original ask was a mistake. One Xbox gamer, Siguardius on Reddit, theorized that Xbox may not allow hidden game listings in its store, and that Golf Up‘s developer listed its yet-to-be-released game at an extremely high price just to get its store page set up. Siguardius added that games are actually purchasable at those inflated prices if gamers are able to catch them before the price is changed. It’s not confirmed whether this is how some developers operate when getting games live on Xbox’s store, and it’s not concretely known whether this is what happened with Golf Up. Nevertheless, fans of golfing games on Xbox can now pre-order Golf Up at its intended price.

Xbox doesn’t seem to be slowing down as the middle months of 2025 approach. Doom: The Dark Ages is the next big first-party release coming May 15, and The Outer Worlds 2 seems to be Xbox’s big Fall game. Additionally, Xbox’s Summer showcase is lined up for June 8, where there will likely be even more info about Xbox’s 2025 and beyond.