Sunday, June 9th 2024
Microsoft Reveals its Disc-less Xbox Series X Console
During the Xbox Games Showcase today, Microsoft revealed its upcoming disc-less Xbox Series X console, alongside an upgraded Xbox Series X with 2 TB of storage and a white XBox Series S with 1 TB of storage. The disc-less SKU will be known as the Xbox Series X 1 TB Digital Edition and it will at least initially, only be available in what Microsoft calls Robot White. As the name implies, it will sport 1 TB of storage and Microsoft says it's the "perfect option for digital-first players to experience the speed and performance of Xbox Series X".
The new 2 TB SKU will be known as the Xbox Series X - 2 TB Galaxy Black Special Edition and as you can see on the pictures below, it has a rather interesting pattern made up of grey and green sparkling plastic moulded into the black. The Xbox Series S - 1 TB in Robot White is simply getting half a terabyte of extra storage over the current model and it means that the white and black Series S consoles will have storage parity. However, the press release suggests that the black model might be discontinued in favour of the white model. The Xbox Series X - 1 TB Digital Edition will retail for $449.99/€499.99, with the Xbox Series X - 2 TB Galaxy Black Special Edition coming in at $599.99/€649.99 and finally the Xbox Series S - 1 TB in Robot White will cost $349.99/€349.99. All three models will be available later this year.
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The new 2 TB SKU will be known as the Xbox Series X - 2 TB Galaxy Black Special Edition and as you can see on the pictures below, it has a rather interesting pattern made up of grey and green sparkling plastic moulded into the black. The Xbox Series S - 1 TB in Robot White is simply getting half a terabyte of extra storage over the current model and it means that the white and black Series S consoles will have storage parity. However, the press release suggests that the black model might be discontinued in favour of the white model. The Xbox Series X - 1 TB Digital Edition will retail for $449.99/€499.99, with the Xbox Series X - 2 TB Galaxy Black Special Edition coming in at $599.99/€649.99 and finally the Xbox Series S - 1 TB in Robot White will cost $349.99/€349.99. All three models will be available later this year.
29 Comments on Microsoft Reveals its Disc-less Xbox Series X Console
1tb series S at $300
1tb diskless series x $400
2tb series x at $500
Even then it’s not going to sell and probably needs to be $50 cheaper than what I posted across the board.
This is ridiculous.
What I'd like to see is a Series S with a disc drive. Xbox loves to tout it's solid backwards compatibility around, why not let people buy a cheap, small box that lets them play a good chunk of their 360 discs? And, ya know, movies.
Repeat after me: "You will own nothing...."Microsoft doesnt actually care about backwards compatibility. Why would they sell you a cheap box that can play movies and 360 games when they can sell you a $600 console with no exclusives that you have to rent games on via gamepass and pay to stream your movies on top of it? Poor little MS needs more of your MoNeY!They're desperate to prop up Xbox profits since gamepass growth has flatlined.
This could have been so simple
Xbox Series S 1TB - $299
Xbox Series X 1TB (OG Model) - $399
Xbox Series X 2TB (New Model) - $499
Making a disc less Xbox Series X seems pointless. They literally made a OG Xbox Series X removed the disc drive and dropped price $50 (Woo hoo).
Their new pricing literally puts the Xbox Series X Digital $50 above the PlayStation 5 Digital which seems so ridiculous.
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The bummer is the lack of the new controller. According to the leaks from the Activision-Blizzard lawsuit, we were supposed to get an updated controller with PS5 features that would have trickled down to PC and finally we'd have had those features built-in to games besides Sony published ones.
But alas it seems like it's not meant to be. Microsoft has abandoned us to inferior controller hell for a whole generation. Imagine a world where them buying Activision-Blizzard wasn't horrible in every possible way.
Got news for you: you can't take all that media with you to the grave and your kids don't want it.
I assume discs are still cheaper so that's what is used.
The point is to have something physical that allows you to continue to play your games long after the cloud servers get shut down, or in areas with poor internet such that buying and transporting physical media is a faster transfer rate than their internet, as to this day using a carrier pigeon to move data around remains faster than rural internet.
I don't buy MS playing the Series X as the PS5 Pro killer, no one is going to buy into that when PS5 exclusives have been much more interesting and impressive when it comes to hardware utilization.That's the greatest advantage of physical media and one of 2 things they want to kill. The second is using retaillers to sell disc versions having to share some money with them and contend with their sales cycle. They want to bring everything in house, akin to the PC where you only buy games for a couple of digital storefronts, difference being it will be only one place with consoles
This is why I play on the PC. And more reasons will appear in the near future, such as, for example, the real price of on-demand services.
Netflix just elevated my sub from 19,99 > 23,99 / month (+20%!!!)
Its going to get cancelled as soon as we've finished watching Trailer Park Boys :) GTFO with that shit. They started at 7,99 go figure. That's some inflation.
Its a writing on the wall for gaming on demand. Be careful what you dive into and get used to. Ownership is and will always be the best and cheapest and most reliable way to play games, unless you're happy playing something you possibly can't get back into tomorrow. Who needs Saved Games, right? Who are those fools that play a game and get back to it a year later, right? Yeah. Mhm.
The real deal is still on PC:
- You can mod
- You can cheat
- You can work around monetization
- Online is free
- The market has checks and balances & real competition
- Its raining free games & content
- It has the sharpest price cuts in games
- Content isn't vetted by one company, there are no barriers you can't cross
- ... which means innovation always happens on the PC, never on consoles.
And the more you game, the more all of these advantages play out.But we ain't dead yet are weLast I recalled, consumers are capable of voting with wallets :)
Its stuff like this that makes for a nice catalyst for continued PC gaming market growth. As it has done ever since it was invented I might add. There is nothing to worry about. Ownership is here to stay, even if corporate dreams of another world. Reality simply is what it is, as long as the PC exists, it will show its advantages and they will only weigh heavier for people as the net closes around owning content. We already have the first 'Stop killing games' initiatives.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you give away ownership, you give away power. The new gen of gamers is coming to terms with that now. Markets are all about demand, and people always want what they don't have yet, or anymore.
Yes, I be salty. :laugh:
Many have been delisted, some like Dust or Soulcalibur 1 & 2 are no longer available. Dust is one of the crazy ones, as it was a XBLA sponsored game that sold over 1 million copies. It has now been ported to PS4 and Switch(!) but is not available on Xbox anymore.
If you care about money, you will probably also shell out $50 more because there is a lot to be saved going with used discs. Especially XBOne games, which seem to be plenty to go around.