It was around a month ago that the existence of a white, all-digital Xbox Series X was first reported, and now the same outlet that broke the news has returned with a series of images that appear to prove its legitimacy.
This all comes from Exputer, which highlights the "clear absence of a disc drive on the front" as well as an improved heatsink along with a few other upgraded components. The images are poor quality, but nevertheless seem real - and The Verge has also mentioned that it's seen "additional documents" that suggest the photos are genuine.
As for the price, there's no word on this just yet, but the outlet suggests that it'll likely retail for less than the current Xbox Series X model. It seems this version of the console is still expected to release at some point during the summer.
Of course, an older leak of Microsoft's documents suggested that Xbox was planning a bigger Series X refresh in late 2024 at one point (codenamed "Brooklin"), but it sounds like the strategy has changed. That same leak also mentioned the Xbox controller was getting a significant overhaul, so it'll be interesting to see if that proves the case.
What do you make of this white, all-digital Xbox Series X design? Let us know in the comments below.
[source exputer.com, via theverge.com]
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Looks.....adorably,good😁?. OK, I'll see myself out.
I'll stick with my current series x. If this is true, then the holiday announcement could possibly be the rumored handheld🤞
Why though? What is the appeal? It better be WAAAY under $499.
Makes sense for someone who is never going to buy discs but wants more power than the series s. £399 would be good.
More anti-gamer e-waste. Hopefully it’s a failure.
I don’t think it looks as nice as the black X, yet I think the S looks good in white.
This is what they should of done at the start of the generation same way ps5 done with digital and disk with same specs
oh god it’s ugly , turn off the lights again , keep it black
@CaptainCluck Well with this one I might finally make the switch from series S to series X
Looks more like a fridge now.
Something they should have done day one, a discless series x.
Price wise they have to match Sony at £390 in the UK with the discless PS5.
You have to give it Xbox they keep plugging away at the console market, fair play to them.
If this is in the summer I wonder if they have a mid generation upgrade like Sony do with the PS5 Pro in the works.
Only time will tell.
As for some moaning about the colour white.
Go ask Sony how it’s doing for them with the PS5 sales, let alone the series x to me is designed so much better than the PS5 overall.
It's hard to imagine Xbox being more of a laughing stock than it is now, but if they release this at $500 dollars, it will happen.
This xbox reminds me of my old Compaq Pentium 2 that struggled to run command and conquer red alert 2. Now I feel old.
Not in love with it in white. But if they don’t release that rumored controller, i am going to be really mad. Just for the quieter buttons alone i want it. But i am sure the hardware team is all hands on deck for the handheld and then next gen hardware. So they throw this white series X out and call it done for this generation could be the play at hand here. Series S owners should watch out for any trade in promos to get this series X.
Should've had this from start, I most likely would've bought over the S. Problem now is how the heck are they going to price it. The 1TB S goes for 350 retail, it's very easy to get a new X for around 400 nowadays. Unless they're going to knock down the prices on the low end this isn't going to do to well I think.
Personally, I'd much prefer a black version, though I'm happy with my X, and so won't be tempted. The only thing that would potentially see me buying such a device would be if it offered significant improvements over the current X.
I'm not sure whether I would ever actually buy a console without a disc-drive as I use mine to play blu-rays. Obviously I could keep my current X, but I only have so much room under my TV...
I absolutely agree that this is something that Microsoft should have done at the start of the generation, @OldGamer999 990, but I don't think they will be doing a mid-generation refresh. What they might do, however, is bring out the much rumoured handheld in the next year or two...
They should release an external disc drive that also works on Series S, even it was only to support our backwards compatible games. Then I might give in to the all digital rage for new games.
I don't mind the design, though I prefer the black version of the Series X. It's a shame they went with a weaker Series S at launch and not a discless Series X but it is what it is.
@G4n0nD0rf an external optical drive for backwards compatible games would be a pretty cool thing that have!
@Fiendish-Beaver As long as the consoles are backwards compatible, I'd need a drive, too, as I have a number of games on disc that I'd want to play on my modern system.
@Blaa im pretty sure this is the holiday announcement. The handheld is supposed to be part of the 2026 next Gen launch based on all the discussions on podcasts.
Maybe that new controller is announced for the holidays as well.
It doesn't look like there's a space for optional disc drive like Sony did with the PS5 Slim so I get the feeling that the leaks back in September about this replacing the current disc Series X are still accurate.
@Krzzystuff wishful thinking from me. Excited about things ahead for Xbox.
@Fiendish-Beaver
Not sure if the handheld thing or anything to do with consoles is Microsofts best move for Xbox.
Any other company this and last generation would have probably had to give up, due to money and shareholders.
@OldGamer999
Price wise they have to match Sony at £390 in the UK with the discless PS5
I would go much bolder with the pricing here, say £299. The main reason is to have a real differentiating factor since (assuming this thing is/will be a real sku) it doesn’t seem to offer the modular approach the PS5 slim provide.(as far as we can see from the images)
Reminds me of an old PC tower.
I reckon this is aimed at Series S owners, those who have it as a second "gamepass" machine.
@Sol4ris Yeah I think undercutting the PS5 is the best play
@Grumblevolcano
Either way current gen consoles are well overpriced for going into the 4th year.
I’m sure we are being exploited by Sony and Microsoft.
The fact they both keeping putting the price of the disc consoles to about £400 with spot sales makes me think we are being taken for a ride this generation.
I mean they both have done hardly anything that amazes from last generation.
I mean my PS5 play hours for 2023 was the lowest ever play hours for a year in PlayStation history from PlayStation one onwards.
This was on that leaked document right? If so, that means we will hopefully see the new controller with haptic feedback soon
@Grumblevolcano I agree, no way they carry 4 SKU when they don't sell anyway.
Why would anyone downgrade to this?
Looks great but don't need it. Now a handheld........
I definitely think this should have been done at the beginning of the generation, not mid. I am sure there will be some uptake with people who bought the S being in the better position to need something like this since their Series games are all on digital anyway, but with growing rumours that there will be a majority of Xbox games going over to other formats, this just feel like too little too late in my opinion!
@OldGamer999 @Sol4ris I think they'll go for the increase to 2TB of storage, stay at current Series X price.
I wanted the Xtube
@Timorteus I am that person ha
Big fan of the series X form factor, way better than the abomination that is the PS5 with its $ store stand.
This discless version though is just incredibly uninspired, I can’t see it making any difference to Series sales, who actually wants this?
@Grumblevolcano
That won’t do them any good at all.
I guess Microsoft don’t want to sell consoles then.
@Sol4ris
Yes I agree, but there was a rumour it would have 2tb and the same price as series x is now.
If so I guess Microsoft don’t want to sell consoles that much anymore.
@Sol4ris
Microsoft seems to have no console selling common sense.
In the UK with a four day public holiday starting tomorrow.
The PS5 disc model is at £409.00
The series x £460.00
We know who will sell consoles this Easter bank holiday in the UK.
I'm not a big fan of the current featureless Series X, but this thing literally looks like a fridge. It unbelievably ugly, but agree with everyone that this should have been the original offering, at this point its dead in the water, I predict sales will be awful. What a shame.
I hope the rumoured new controller finally surfaces though, my wife won't even touch the Xbox because of its controller, so a new one might help me turn that around..
Whilst the handheld rumours seem to be gathering pace, I'm finding that even harder to believe. No doubt a hardcore fan would buy one, but you are directly pitching against the fantastic Steam Deck and the undisputed champ of handhelds, the Switch and Switch 2. No analyst alive could give them a hope in hell of shifting many such units, and I'd much rather have the other two options for handheld needs, as I'm sure would most of the gaming public.
I dunno guys, I'd rather not be fatalistic, but it seems to me Xbox has lost the plot. Sony could release a turd on a stick and it would probably sell more than this fridge.... Where is the design, where is the inspiration, where are the ideas?
Unless it's cheaper or has 2TB there is no point - it must be 2TB to be priced the same as the disc version. I may consider upgrading my Series S to a 2TB Series X as I have quite a few Xbox games and Gamepass games I would like to play at a higher resolution.
Microsoft and Sony are releasing consoles that I think will be hard sells.
For Xbox, it would be hard to justify purchasing if you’re new to the Xbox ecosystem as there’s such bad messaging from Microsoft on the future of Xbox. And Series S would be a better fit for a GamePass console.
For Sony, I don’t understand the justification for a Pro. This generation is constrained by the Series S and Microsoft’s parity clause. So the only true benefit outside of potential exclusive games is scalability, and I don’t see that being enough to justify a Pro.
It’ll be interesting to see how they sell.
Price is a big factor for this. They need to sell it at a profit (original series X is still sold at a loss, or at least i havent seen anything to say it isnt) for the business side of things. Removing the disc drive will shave some cost but is it enough to hit the sweet spot for consumers? I dont know.
Like others, i agree this should have been available day one. I kinda like the idea of the two colours, one with a drive, one without, launching together. Would have been clearer than the whole Series S/X name.
@lacerz I don't think this generation is constrained by Series S parity. I think the generation is constrained by the fact that publishers need to actually make money, and to do that they need customers to sell to, and right now the customers are on potato PCs that make the Series S look like a powerhouse (Seriously a 3070 or something is the #1 GPU on Steam) , and on PS4s. There's a bigger problem for the "platforms" and the need to constantly have something new to sell than the Series S. The problem is that we're at that point phones were at when they stopped giving them away, and doubled, now tripled the price of them. The market is saturated and the hardware matured, people are more likely to play on their good enough 10 year old box, so now there's nothing to sell, and the cost to budget to make games kind of hits a ceiling when the market isn't really growing. What good is a box 5x more powerful if games for hardware that don't even need as much power aren't cost effective to make?
The industry adapted to making games that maximize hardware because it exists rather than making the games the market supports, and it turns out, that market doesn't actually support super powerful hardware. There's a niche that wants that. But not a big enough niche to fund the darn games that do it.
It's 2024 and the top two platforms by a landslide are a 2017 tablet with 2011 architecture and, literally, a telephone. How many 4080's has nVidia sold? Other than cases of them sold to crypto miners? We don't need more powerful hardware, we need more less powerful hardware selling cheaper. It's what the market wants and the industry needs. More people with hardware to play games on. Good games that don't exist just to demonstrate how powerful hardware can be to a bunch of technophiles.
@Titntin Meanwhile PS Portal sells great and it's literally a WiiU GamePad for your PS5. There's demand for good portable play. I'd say more demand than there is for good TV play at this point.
It may flop, but I think it's a unique angle that doesn't compete against what Sony's doing post-Vita, doesn't compete directly in Steam's space either but borrows the concept for a more mass market version. Sort of competes against Nintendo, but that depends a lot on what Switch 2 actually looks like.
In some ways the biggest problem for Xbox isn't that they're doing anything wrong but that the market has really little space for more than one TV console, 1 handheld console, 1 VR HMD, and PC in its various forms. And mobile. Which is really a problematic statement about the size of the market for the industry. There's a lot of companies and a lot of employees in an industry that has a market so small it can't support more than 1 ecosystem in each of its niches. And gaming's in a bad place if all it really supports is one natural monopoly per market segment.
To that point, I think if MS were to really succeed with a handheld the result would be serious trouble for Nintendo. The market is too small and can't support a robust industry at all.
@Grumblevolcano I don't see a scenario where they stop selling consoles with disc drives entirely this gen. One way or another it's going to have to have a way to get discs in some model available for purchase. Next gen? Yeah, I'd be shocked if XB had disc drives. This gen? They've already committed to it.
I think they stick with S, white discless 2TB, priced same as black disc 1TB.
Started reading the article.
Got as far as the second paragraph. “Clear absence of a disc drive”.
No, thank you. I will give this a miss.
I bought the Starfield skin for my Series X because I wanted it to match my PS5 and Switch OLED better. This all white version looks fine to me, but the OG black one looks better, I think.
If it's discless, why is it still the same size?
@CaptainCluck I what way is it anti gamer?
@OldGamer999 I like the look of the black Series X better than the PS5
@CutchuSlow They needed space to fit the extra terabytes
@Jenkinss that doesn't take up space. 1tb, 2tb or 4tb cards are all the same size . Plus it's very tiny.
@Mince if it's a lot cheaper than the disc version, then it would be worth it if it's your first current gen xbox. But better if you could attach the disc drive, like the PS5 does it.
@NEStalgia The leaked roadmap in September shows it at the very least was an intention for Xbox physical to go away in 2024 as the digital only Series X would replace the current Series X. The reports this year are suggesting the strategy still going ahead like how Limited Run are doing physical releases instead of Microsoft and about Microsoft telling Walmart to send Starfield to landfill.
@Matthewnh you didn't have to read that far, it is literally in the title of the article "All digital Xbox Series X".
@Vepra Same here. This is exactly what will get me to upgrade. I no longer have use for a disk drive.
I bought a Series X partially because of the disc drive. I recently picked up Rallisport Challenge, a Rally game published by Microsoft back on the OG Xbox, and it didn't work. It's the only physical Xbox game I own, so now I'm big sad.
That said, if I didn't already have a Series X, I'd think about this one. The Series X in black matches the Zune I never had.
That’s a high price point for an all digital X. My guess is it comes with 3TB of internal storage.
@Grumblevolcano We've seen a lot of leaks that aren't true for all 3 consoles. I really don't see Xbox getting rid of physical this generation. Next Gen? Yes. This gen? That would be a heck of a turnaround, as they've repeated many times the commitment to physical (this gen). We'll see but it would surprise me.
What’s the deal with the white consoles this generation? I don’t like this trend.
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