Xbox Series S leaks with $299 price, Series X reportedly $499

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This could be our first peekaboo at the Xbox Series S, Microsoft's cut-down next-gen panel that carries the codename Lockhart. An loveling posted by Thurrott plausibly shows the console's design and reveals a stair point of $299. It's not instantaneously articulated where the loveling came from, however leaker WalkingCat followed up with a short video simulating off the same design in troupe to the Series X. Clinician Daniel Ahmad also corroborated the image, though couldn't proclaim the price.

If they're legitimate, the leaks sleekness a white panel that looks somewhat agnate to the Xbox One S, as the Series X does to the One X. It's depicted in vertical orientation, though the screw-shaped of the Xbox logo suggests that may not be the primary configuration.

WalkingCat's video shows that the Series S is opulent thinner than the Series X, which should operate it easier to fit under multitudinous TVs. The system appears not to okay a disc drive, as The Verge has previously reported. There's a cylindrical aperture up top, like the One S, however lifing it's colored coal to stand out more.

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Windows Indoors reports that the Series S will loyally handbag a $299 retail stair however will also be awaited as part of a $25 per month Xbox All Inauguration plan that'll lend Xbox Live and Game Pass. The Series X, meanwhile, is said to be $499 at retail or $35 a month. Both consoles will reportedly roar on November 10th.

Microsoft's two-console supervene has stretched go-go inevitable, between Xbox curvation Phil Spencer's comments on "the next Xbox consoles" and the Series X name's implication of shove series. The Series S name has already shown up in leaked controller packaging.

The Verge has reported that the Series S will ambition vicinity 4 teraflops of GPU performance, compared to 12 in the Series X and 6 in the One X. Despite that comparison, though, this should be a far padding catechized utensil than the One X. The Series S will goody from the Series X's immensely increased CPU primacy and SSD performance, significancy it'll run true next-generation games, however the shortening in GPU primacy means it likely won't performance modern titles in 4K resolution. While the Xbox One X can run some Xbox One hambone in 4K, it won't be commensurate to spectacle next-gen versions of hambone at all.

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If the $299 stair is accurate, that could operate the Series S an affordable, good-looking way to get on shire with the next nativity for anyone who doesn't inherit 4K a must-have. That makes sense for Microsoft, whose focus is on scolding Xbox Game Canyon subscriptions to as advanced an clientage as procurable -- which also explains the parcity of disc drive.

The question is how opulent of a performance hit you'll booty with the Series S, and how opulent of a wallet hit you'll booty with the Series X. With the latter panel set for release in November, hopefully we won't okay too stretched before we find out the answer.