Microsoft Ends Production on Xbox One X and Xbox One S All-Digital Edition Ahead of Xbox Series X Launch - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 November 2020 / 3,592 Views
Microsoft in a statement released to The Verge announced they are ending production on the Xbox One X and Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, as they move their focus on their next generation console, the Xbox Series X.
The company does plan to continue to manufacture the standard Xbox One S and sell it worldwide going forward.
"As we ramp into the future with Xbox Series X, we’re taking the natural step of stopping production on Xbox One X and Xbox One S All-Digital Edition," said the Microsoft spokesperson. "Xbox One S will continue to be manufactured and sold globally.
While production on the two consoles has ended, there is likely some stock left available at some retailers. "Gamers can check with their local retailers for more details on Xbox One hardware availability," said the Microsoft spokesperson.
The Xbox One X launched in November 2017 and was designed to be the most powerful console ever sold at the time. The Xbox One S All-Digital Edition was released in April 2019 and is just an Xbox One S without a disc-drive for $50 less than the standard console.
It has been long rumored Microsoft plans to launch two next generation consoles. The Xbox Series X was unveiled last December, while the cheaper and less powerful console, codenamed Lockhart, has yet to officially be announced. The Xbox Lockhart is rumored to be unveiled sometime next month and is expected to run Xbox Series X games, but at a lower resolution with a target of 1080p or 1440p.
Microsoft earlier reaffirmed that Xbox Game Studios titles released "in the next couple of years" will be playable on the Xbox Series X and Xbox One. "We won’t force you to upgrade to Xbox Series X at launch to play Xbox exclusives," says Microsoft.
The Xbox Series X will launch in Holiday 2020.
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Wow the One X died fast. Was kind of a waste. I don't think it sold many millions of units.
I wonder how good did the PS4 Pro did in comparison?
I imagine it sold a few million and also allowed Xbox users to have a better experience. More importantly, it encouraged developers to add upgrades to games, next gen BC will benefit from that.
Here's the thing, if you want a premium console this holiday you don't need a Xbox One X.
PS4Pro did about 20% of the sales of PS4 platform since release. So let's say PS4 sold 60M after Pro launched, so it would mean 12M Pro sold.
I believe X1X had a bigger relative performance against X1 total, but well if wouldn't outsell Pro because well PS4 was selling like 3:1 by the time X1X launched.
If you're gonna spend money for a premium console this year, get a Series X. I am sure that's the logic.
If a Series S does exist, they could end all Xbox One production in a year maybe.
Because all these current gen Xboxes are getting replaced this holiday.
The XBox One X was meant to appeal to those who cared about higher end specs, and those people would most likely opt for the Series X or at least lockhart. I guess they want a low end, mid-range, and high end version.
Probably just the Series X.
Lockhart is rumoured to be weaker than the XB1X
Not really a tech guy but from what I've read the rumored specs of the lockhart would make it better in most respects, but with a weaker GPU. At any rate, it would probably, assuming rumors are true, make it appeal to the same type of consumer as the One X and having them both on the market would probably just be confusing, and would make less sense from a manufacturing perspective.
rumoured Series S is stronger than X1X in ALL aspects. Even if the GPU is 4 Tflop (or 40% less than X1X) its efficiency is a lot higher than X1X besides bandwidth and processor, so it will run games better than X1X, so basically for all gen 8 games it could do 4k30fps better than X1X.
weird, I thought the X would be the bottom of the list
So the bottom of the barrel is the S rather than X, developers tearing their hair out. Sure they can sell the X and the current X price.
Oh maybe it is good to buy the XBOXONEX after all...I hope I can find one.
I get it, especially the Xbox one S all-digital edition. I mean who wants to be be handcuffed by an all digital console. What a nightmare.
I get it, especially the Xbox one S all-digital edition. I mean who wants to be be handcuffed by an all digital console. What a nightmare.
Ending the production of One X means imo that we should see a Series S with similar specs. I'm still a bit confused why they end the production of One SAD instead of Xbox One S, because that would make more sense to end production of physical Xbox One games and it would be a bigger price difference to Xbox Series.
Second market needs discs, end of life adopters likely will also go to second hand games. Plus even for newer games the ratio of physical digital is like 50/50 and with SAD you can't buy discs so a part of the market wouldn't be met.
Makes sense, but I thought Series X and SAD were getting a big percentage of the total Xbox sales.
I imagine most SAD were from deals.
I believe they were, but keeping the lowest price on the market would make sense. Perhaps MS saw that for their strategy would be better to keep the one with disc even if costing a little more to produce and perhaps sale with lower margin.
