Adam Tyner

In Canada, anyway, Best Buy announced it'll be 11 AM Eastern.

Dan

Sneaky!

Michael Corvin

And the Series X is above his right shoulder.

Dan

Leaked Press Release video. It's all scripted talk about the consoles, so fairly low-energy. Nothing particularly new here (thanks to the other leaks!)
https://streamable.com/3i8ud0
https://streamable.com/ogjm82
https://streamable.com/pd4lme
https://streamable.com/govb9n

Deftones

Good article on if your current gen headset will work with new system: https://www.polygon.com/2020/9/11/21...surround-sound

Edison

I just hope the DV works with my Vizio TV. I would really like movie support and games would be awesome addition. I've come close to buying a stand alone 4k player with DV, because the Xbox One X would only do HDR on movies.

I plan on pre-ordering on the 22nd anyway.

tonyc3742

So I just found out my son asked for an Xbox for his birthday (in October), and asked for a One. He doesn't follow the market like I do. Obviously the best thing to do is see if he's OK with a delayed delivery of his present to get one of the new consoles.

I wasn't going to upgrade my One X but I'm happy to get him in on the ground floor of the new gen if he's interested.

S or X?
If you're getting one in in Q42020, which way are you all leaning?

My default inclination is to get the 'most' machine I can get, which also includes the disc drive so he can play his existing 360 games, dvds, and pick up any One games he missed on.

I would definitely get him Game Pass. I'm looking at the All Access plan, it looks like for the X that basically saves 20 bucks over the 2 year period by including Ultimate. (He may or may not care about the PC gaming, but he'd play online with Live.) If my math is right, All Access for the S saves about $60 so a much better deal (for a "lesser" console). Oh, looks like EA Play (whatever that is) is only on Ultimate and Series X (unless that's old text). Then again, I could just buy the console and some prepaid cards - or let his mom buy some of those.
Still, savings are savings, and I think he's a little limited on space, so having one main device including a disk drive would be good.

Looks like the longest prepaid Ultimate deal or card is 3 months?

Maxflier

Since he will be using it for 360 games, I’d go with the Series X since the Series S won’t have the backwards compatibilty enhancements like the One X and Series X.

Kdogg

Depends on how many hoops you are willing to jump through.

New Ultimate Pass

https://slickdeals.net/f/14338325-xb...eSearchV2Algo1

Existing Ultimate Pass

https://slickdeals.net/f/14338862-xb...eSearchV2Algo1

Deftones

@Wario64: Xbox Series S/X preorders go live at 8 AM PT on Sept 22 according to Target https://t.co/DKC6EJlZhC https://t.co/6u06juGfqU

milo bloom

Hmm, 5% off with Target card?

tonyc3742

Isn't video game hardware usually excluded from discounts like that, or is that like a credit card bonus, good on anything?

Not that many, but thank you! Plus this would be for him, I've still got >2 years on mine.

I know it's been a while since people lined up at midnight for launches, but does anyone have a feel on how 'hot' the consoles on launch day will be?

And I've definitely decided for an X. Why not. Better specs, disc drive, and its his birthday. And apparently Smart Delivery is only on X?

Confirmation question: Borderlands 3 was announced to be "Smart Delivery", "letting users who have purchased the title on Xbox One play it on Xbox Series X at no additional cost". I assume/hope that includes both digital version and disc versions, or is this functionality only for all-digital content? Worst case, I guess, even the disk version should be BC.

milo bloom

I can't recall if we've ever bought big ticket items at Target, we'll see if that works this time.

Can we get the launch date added to the title?

Adam Tyner

We can, and we have!

milo bloom

Now I see it, maybe the old one was cached.

thanks

Adam Tyner

Sorry for not wording that well. You didn't miss anything. I made the change after you suggested it.

davidh777

My vanilla One has been wonky for a few years, so I’m looking at getting the new system to go with my new TV. I can stream 4K on the PS4 Pro but it’d be nice to be able to play discs as well.

Deftones

Looks like MS confirmed the 8 am PST preorder on 09/22

Dan

^ The funny thing is, if/when it goes relatively smoothly, it'll be because nobody buys Xbox LOL mostly ignored.

Music

Adam Tyner

Ha! I’ll freely admit that when I was clicking the “Checkout” button at bestbuy.com for an hour straight, I was thinking “well, at least it won’t be like this for the Xbox.”

Music

I don't put anything by the scumbags that use bots and resell.

Dan

genuinely, same.
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Decker

I've always been jealous of people who waited on a new Xbox console until there was a cool looking Special Edition (I think the first one for the XO was Titanfall). Maybe that will be me this time....

fujishig

Unless they completely redesign the console, I have a hard time imagining how cool this brick is going to look in different colors...