Just like Sony, Microsoft also sells refurbished generation 9 consoles at a discounted rate, with Series X/S reburb consoles costing about $50 less.

The white coating on the discless Xbox Series X matches the same “robot white” found on the Xbox Series S. Microsoft is also releasing a $349.99 1TB Xbox Series S in white for the holidays, alongside a $599.99 2TB “Galaxy Black” special edition of the Xbox Series X.

Microsoft has released a new white version of the Xbox Series X console that is discless. This new model, priced at $449.99, is a digital-only model designed for gamers who can tolerate digital copies of games or Xbox Game Pass titles. The white color ...

The new all-digital configuration of the Xbox Series X ditches the disc drive and (slightly) drops the price. The newest Xbox gaming console is the discless, All-Digital Xbox Series X, which costs a little less given it has less hardware.

The cooling for the updated 6nm chip has also been redesigned on these new Xbox Series X models. There’s no longer a vapor chamber, and Microsoft is using a more traditional copper heat pipe design instead. Evans found that the exhaust temperature and noise of these new Xbox Series X models hasn’t changed from the original, though.