Even though they talked about it might not be accurate or happen, the Xbox Series X mid-generation refresh never came to be; we got three new Xbox consoles this week, and I was lucky enough to get the chance to go hands-on with one of them.
When the Xbox Series X/S launched in 2020, we had a digital-only version and one with a disc drive. Now, this has been flipped on its head with the release of the Xbox Series X Digital Edition. Like the Xbox Series S, it gives up/forgets about a disc drive to cut costs.
Microsoft is swapping the console’s colorway with this new disc-less Xbox Series X. Instead of an all-black design, it sports an all-white one. While I haven’t opened the console, Microsoft sent me to check out, others have, and there’s one big change under the hood that’s aimed at improving power use instead of boosting the Series X’s graphical abilities.
In the box, you get all of the same added, or extra things/people or things that help that came with the original Xbox Series X. There’s the console itself, an Xbox wireless controller, two AA electrical storage devices, a power cable, and an HDMI 2.1 cable. The box design is a bit different, though, since it shows the whole console instead of just a closeup of the top of the device at an angle.
As someone who bought a fixed-up and new Series X from Microsoft earlier this year, I never got this original unboxing experience. However, just like with its new units, the software giant wraps and packages its fixed-up and like new ones in almost the same way. The only difference I saw 1/heard/became aware of) when unboxing the Xbox Series X Digital Edition is that the “Power Your Dreams” wrapper was missing this time.
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https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-series-x-review
https://kotaku.com/xbox-series-x-the-kotaku-review-1845578573
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