Xbox will present three new models of its current platforms by Christmas 2024.
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Last Sunday, June 9, 2024, the Xbox Games Showcase took place. This event presented some of the great releases from Xbox Game Studios and the studios it owns. These include Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Doom: The Dark Ages, Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred, Starfield: Shattered Space, Age of Mithology: Retold and Flight Simulator 2024.
With this, Xbox, headed by its SEO Phil Spencer, hopes to strengthen its presence in the industry and give added value to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service. This is not only available on its eighth and ninth generation consoles, but also on Windows PCs and cloud gaming. Fundamental parts of Microsoft’s business idea in the future sooner rather than later.
However, to talk about the present, the company continues in the home systems segment with its Xbox Series X|S, in which it competes with Sony’s PlayStation and Nintendo. However, it is the worst-performing company in this area with nearly 30 million units sold. Very far from the 60 million of the PlayStation 5 in almost four years and 142 million of the Nintendo Switch in seven.
Therefore, as part of its announcements at the Xbox Games Showcase, Microsoft revealed that it is preparing three revisions of its current models and they will be on sale around Christmas 2024. All this according to Sarah Bond, president of the company. Thus, the American company is ahead of its competitors who have not yet officially announced new versions of their consoles.
The new Xbox Series
This platform is a revision of the model with the same name that the world knows in black and with an optical disk drive. This was launched on the market in November 2020 and was announced as “the most powerful Xbox in history” because it is designed for the most demanding jobs.
This new model, which can be reserved in the coming months to enjoy in December 2024, will come in white, one TB of storage (the same as its older sister) and as a completely digital system, that is, it will not be compatible with video games in physical format.
It will maintain the 4K resolution and all the technical characteristics of the previous console. It should be noted that Xbox warned that it will be a product offered for sale in select markets and it may not reach players in Colombia. We will have to wait for more news from the green X.
The new Xbox Series S
In June 2023, Microsoft presented the black one-TB Xbox Series S to the public. This came to solve the requirements for greater storage capacity for users of this exclusive digital gaming platform, since the original white model barely offers 512 GB.
Now, and more to satisfy an aesthetic need, the one TB Xbox Series S arrives in white, just like the initial 2020 version, but with the storage of the 2023 revision. It maintains 120 frames per second (FPS) and the features of previous consoles.
This platform will also be available only in some regions of the world and hopes to conquer all those gamers who prefer digital titles and need more memory to store games downloaded from the Xbox Game Pass membership, which already has 34 million customers.
The new two TB Xbox
Finally, as if TB were not enough, today or four years ago, Microsoft presented its new two TB Xbox Series It is a black base with white details that simulate stars in a dark sky.
This system is expected to become the jewel in the crown for Microsoft and be the spearhead to reorient the course of the home console business. The wireless controller is also a novelty, as it features a black D-Pad (straight button panel) and the backrest with the green color that has identified the Xbox brand for the last 20 years.
We will have to wait and see how Xbox moves its chips, since “it will be available in limited quantities in select markets.” The American company revalidates its hardware proposal and seems to be far from abandoning the market as predicted six months ago. Xbox continues to fight and at least wins the first battle against the possible PlayStation 5 Pro and Nintendo Switch 2 that are not guaranteed for December 2024, a favorite time to buy and give a console as a gift.
