Where to preorder Microsoft’s special edition Galaxy Black Xbox Series X

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Before Sony went all-in with a pricey mid-cycle console refresh by announcing its upcoming PlayStation 5 Pro, Microsoft laid retired plans for a premium console with aesthetics astatine the forefront. The 2TB “Galaxy Black” special-edition Xbox Series X is mostly the aforesaid arsenic the modular Series X, but it features a double-capacity SSD and a slick overgarment job. We’re inching toward its October 15th release, and funny parties consenting to pony up the $599.99 asking terms tin already preorder 1 astatine Best Buy and straight from Microsoft.

Those who crave the pricier Xbox are chiefly getting 3 unsocial things for their money:

2TB of built-in storage, which is doubly the magnitude disposable connected the standard, $500 Xbox Series X (which tin inactive beryllium expanded with proprietary retention add-ons).
A caller overgarment job, if achromatic is your thing, that’s reminiscent of the star-filled acheronian of space. It shares immoderate vibes with Microsoft’s erstwhile constricted variation console, the Halo-themed Xbox Series X, and features greenish accents connected its bottommost stand.
A unsocial controller with matching speckles connected the D-pad and a splash of greenish connected the bottom.

Those changes aren’t astir arsenic drastic arsenic the new hardware connected the PS5 Pro (which features a caller GPU, among different show benefits), but I indispensable admit the caller Xbox looks sick.

$600

A peculiar variation Xbox Series X with a unique, starry plan and an expanded 2TB of built-in storage. It’s the aforesaid arsenic the modular Series X otherwise, with features similar 4K solution and Quick Resume.

Outside of the supra features, the Galaxy Black Xbox Series X volition play each the aforesaid games arsenic different Xbox Series X / S models and lucifer the modular variation with its 4K solution and 120fps framework complaint (though it’s locked astatine 4K / 60fps oregon little successful astir games). It features a Blu-ray drive, too, dissimilar the compact Series S and discless Series X, the second of which launches alongside Microsoft’s constricted variation console successful October for $449.99.

While the erstwhile procreation of Xbox One consoles saw the merchandise of the mid-cycle Xbox One X, the upcoming PS5 Pro seems to beryllium the lone spec-bumped premium console this generation. Documents revealed during the FTC vs. Microsoft lawsuit showed a precise antithetic instrumentality connected a refreshed Xbox Series X, implicit with a cylindrical plan and a caller controller with a lift-to-wake feature. These caller Xbox consoles are evidently not that, but Microsoft calling an audible connected that program is not terribly astonishing arsenic caller times person been pugnacious for the Xbox part with studio closures, layoffs, and plenty of strategy shifts.

The Galaxy Black Xbox Wireless Controller features a unsocial D-pad and greenish undercoating.

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