iFixit, the company known for publishing tear-down guides and repairability ratings as well as selling official spare parts and components for various electronics brands, has added Microsoft's Xbox consoles to its growing range of official spares. The repair advocacy company today announced in a blog post that Xbox Series X and Series S spares will now be available through iFixit, replete with DIY repair guides for all the spares sold on the online shop. As is typical of iFixit, the goal—aside from the obvious profit motives—is to promote right to repair and DIY repair in order to keep electronics in service for longer, reducing the amount of e-waste that ends up on the trash heap.
The official iFixit Xbox partnership will include both the disc and digital-only versions of the Series consoles, and the parts list is quite extensive, including everything from big-ticket items, like the motherboard assembly and built-in power supply to less obvious things, like the rubber feet and Wi-Fi modules. Xbox controller spares are also available in the Microsoft Repair Hub, and the list of controller spares looks comprehensive, too. Curiously, iFixit will offer both Microsoft's official Series X/S replacement joysticks and Gulikit TMR Electromagnetic joystick modules, which are a drift-resistant upgrade to the stock joysticks.
This isn't the first Microsoft partnership iFixit has embarked on, having started the partnership last year with spares and guides for Microsoft's Surface line-up. iFixit has also partnered with other tech giants, like Valve—for the Steam Deck—and Samsung for its Galaxy smartphones, although the latter did not go well, with iFixit cutting ties with the Korean brand over ideological differences regarding the approach to right to repair. Curiously, iFixit and Microsoft don't always see eye-to-eye, either, and iFixit has previously given very poor repairability scores to Microsoft Surface devices and Xbox consoles alike.
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The official iFixit Xbox partnership will include both the disc and digital-only versions of the Series consoles, and the parts list is quite extensive, including everything from big-ticket items, like the motherboard assembly and built-in power supply to less obvious things, like the rubber feet and Wi-Fi modules. Xbox controller spares are also available in the Microsoft Repair Hub, and the list of controller spares looks comprehensive, too. Curiously, iFixit will offer both Microsoft's official Series X/S replacement joysticks and Gulikit TMR Electromagnetic joystick modules, which are a drift-resistant upgrade to the stock joysticks.
This isn't the first Microsoft partnership iFixit has embarked on, having started the partnership last year with spares and guides for Microsoft's Surface line-up. iFixit has also partnered with other tech giants, like Valve—for the Steam Deck—and Samsung for its Galaxy smartphones, although the latter did not go well, with iFixit cutting ties with the Korean brand over ideological differences regarding the approach to right to repair. Curiously, iFixit and Microsoft don't always see eye-to-eye, either, and iFixit has previously given very poor repairability scores to Microsoft Surface devices and Xbox consoles alike.
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