Xbox Series X is Microsoft's boxy new game console, coming holiday 2020
Xbox boss Phil Spencer was on hand at The Game Awards on Thursday night with a big surprise: a first look at the next Xbox.
Xbox Series X is its name, and it looks like a tall, black box with a small slit where discs will go. There's a trailer. Look at it here.
Not much to go on! But there's a whole, entire year for Microsoft to share more info. The presence of what looks to be a disc drive means disc-based games aren't going anywhere with the Xbox Series X (which shouldn't be confused with the Xbox One X).
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It also looks the widely loved Xbox controller design isn't changing much. The one that pops up in the trailer looks almost like an Xbox One trailer, except there's a slightly different directional pad and a seemingly new button placed right in the center of the controller, below the Xbox button.
Spencer didn't have anything more to share on the console itself during a brief appearance on the Game Awards stage. He did, however, give viewers a first look at a work-in-progress trailer for one of the games coming to Xbox Series X. Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, a sequel to Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Check out that trailer here.
That's all! Expect plenty more info to spill out over the next 12 months.
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