It’s the same price as the Xbox One was at launch, and matches the MSRP of the (now discontinued) Xbox One X, both of which are nowhere near as powerful as the Xbox Series X. While this isn’t exactly pocket money, it’s a pretty decent price for the new Xbox. A lower-specced, digital-only version of the console, the Xbox Series S, also launched on November 10, priced at $299.99 / £249.99 / AU$499. The Xbox Series X is priced at $499 / £449 / AU$749. Select retailers have shown Xbox Series X stock available to order, but supply has been snapped up almost immediately. The Xbox Series X launched globally on November 10, 2020, giving Microsoft a two-day head start against Sony's PS5, which released on November 12 (in select countries and November 19 for the rest of the world).
For everyone else, it may be worth waiting until the next-gen library of games becomes more substantial. Microsoft’s flagship console is as powerful as you’d expect, then, but we’d hold off on buying an Xbox Series X unless you’re already heavily invested in the Xbox ecosystem, or simply want the best Xbox console experience possible right now. We’d have liked to see the dashboard and UI receive an overhaul, too, as this would have really driven home the fact that we were playing on a whole new generation of console. The absence of Halo Infinite, or any other big-hitting Xbox exclusives, can certainly be felt once the initial novelty of the Xbox Series X's hardware improvements wears off, though. What's more, thanks to Microsoft's acquisition of ZeniMax Media, Xbox Game Pass is now home to a bunch of Bethesda titles - with future titles like Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 landing on the service on day one. It's a subscription that lets you access hundreds of games for a monthly fee – and we've found it helped soften the blow of the console's rather meager launch lineup, and the quiet months since.Įven though Xbox Game Pass is mostly populated by older titles, many are optimized to take advantage of Xbox Series X's hardware, such as Gears 5, Forza Horizon 4 and Sea of Thieves, so it's a great place to experience next-gen games for less. However, one ace up the Xbox Series X's sleeve is Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft had planned to launch Halo Infinite alongside its new hardware, but this was later delayed. The Xbox Series X launch lineup was frankly disappointing, and – even now – you won't find any ‘must-have’ exclusives or brand-new titles that will make you want to run out and buy the new Xbox immediately. However, even though the Xbox Series X’s raw hardware power cannot be understated – and its new time-saving features are most certainly welcome – it's lacking in some critical areas. The deal is sweetened further thanks to numerous quality-of-life features that make your gameplay experience far more enjoyable like Quick Resume and FPS Boost, which we'll discuss in further detail below. The end result is a console that's not only technically advanced, with drastically reduced load times and significantly improved visual fidelity in games, but one that is competitively priced.
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