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The Xbox Series X Appears To Be An Absolute Unit

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The photo above comes from Destin Legarie, who is showing off what IGN has made after the reveal of the Xbox Series X at The Game Awards. It’s a mock-up of the physical console that they assembled after seeing the reveal, and trying to use standard things like the size of the disk drive and controller to measure out how big a real Xbox Series X is going to be.

And it’s really, really damn big.

This mock-up (as shown off in the video below) is making me wondering if this thing is even going to fit in my TV stand. And if so, if it will be so crammed in there that ventilation could end up being something of a problem.

Microsoft is showing off the tower as just that, a tower, but quickly said that yes, you can turn it on its side just like you can with most video game consoles that are showed off vertically like the PS2 and Xbox 360 before it.

It also reinforces the fact that this thing is essentially just a mini-gaming PC, as obviously my computer tower (and most computer towers) are bigger than this thing, but with less power (at least in my case). So really, for the power, Microsoft is delivering something smaller than it could be. And yet clearly quite a change from the existing Xbox One X.

I find it kind of funny that the “end” of the traditional console box has supposed to have been nigh for two generations now, and yet here with are with the biggest, boxiest box of all the boxes in the Series X.

It stands to reason that Microsoft will have smaller versions of this console and that this will probably be the biggest version we see. Either they will have other Series models that are smaller because they have reduced specs, as previously reported, or in a few years tech will keep evolving and they’ll figure out a way to make the Xbox Series X-S or something that is even more powerful while slimming down. We usually see consoles’ size reduced for new models at least once a generation, and truly, you can’t get much bigger than this.

We have seen the PS5 devkit looking pretty chonky itself with its large frame and odd V shape on top. That’s just the devkit, however, and it’s usually a coinflip whether a console devkit ends up resembling the final product in any capacity, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. In PS5’s case, my guess is that it does end up being significantly larger than past consoles, though probably not as big as the Xbox Unit here and significantly more stylish than the horrific looking devkit version. Though I might expect some sort of V-shape to remain.

I’m looking forward to the PS5 reveal to see how it stacks up, and for what other Series models Microsoft comes out with over time.

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