Some consoles we know by their numbers, and some we know by the box being opened. At the end of October 2020, a few days before launch, Microsoft cleared content creators to show the unboxing of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, and the videos took over YouTube, with Brazilian and foreign channels opening the boxes at the same time.
Here in Brazil, BRKsEDU made two videos, one for each model, and Coisa de Nerd opened both consoles together. They’re worth watching to notice the details:
What stands out right away is how different the two devices are on the outside. The Series X is a matte black tower with a 15.1 x 15.1 cm base and 30.1 cm height, weighing 4.45 kg, designed to stand upright but which can also lie flat. At the top is a grille with a single large fan, and at the front are the power button and the 4K Blu-ray drive. The Series S comes in matte white, with a controller of the same color, and is about 60% smaller in volume than its bigger sibling. The large black air vent on the side became the model’s trademark.
A nice detail: Microsoft designed the Series S to fit in a backpack, which is why it has no disc drive and depends only on digital games. Inside, both use an eight-core AMD Zen 2 processor and RDNA 2 graphics. The Series X has 12.155 teraflops, 16 GB of GDDR6 memory and a 1 TB SSD, aiming for 4K at 60 frames per second. The Series S gets 4 teraflops, 10 GB of memory and a 512 GB SSD, focused on 1440p and up to 120 frames.
What came next
Both consoles reached stores on November 10, 2020, with a suggested price of US$ 499 for the Series X and US$ 299 for the Series S in the United States. In the UK alone, 155 thousand units were sold on launch day, two thirds of them Series X. In the following months, the global chip shortage made the devices hard to find. In October 2024, Microsoft launched new versions, including a white 1 TB Series S and a white Series X without a disc drive.
Source: Microsoft.
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