Yes, You Can Lay The Xbox Series X Flat

I think I'll wait until at least the second model. I don't want a bunch of the games to run like crap on the model I bought because they were designed to work on the upgrade.

Yes, but can I use those vents to reheat my pizza? I'm rooting for the underdog and I hope those studios surprise us with great titles. First Sony got Spiderman & now the Predator, and that truly stings and so I will have to undust my PS4 for the latter. MS hooked me with backwards compatibility, but I am hungry for new titles now. I would love a Spiderman, Predator, Terminator, & Aliens shooter.

Doesn't change the fact that it looks ugly as sin. Look at my younger brothers entertainment center. 50' 4k flat screen, original PS4 (launch edition, even), 360 Slim on its side, and a WiiU 32gb black. All arranged in a nice setup on a sleek glass topped center with the consoles residing one next to the other, next surface down from the glass top.

Then there's the Series X. A big fat cube that matches with nothing and sticks out like a sore thumb. Nah. It has a design aesthetic that doesn't fit in with ANY modern devices you see in entertaiment centers. Even cable boxes and DVD players are now small, sleek, minimalist affairs.

Looks like the console is going to be 1 controller wide by 2 1/2 or 3 controllers tall

Good to know, that’s another plus then, upright wouldn’t work under my TV

I love any kind of technology that plays video games and I’m just a little jealous that his family members get to be exposed to it a whole year before release.

Adopt me please!

I’m sold!

No that’s not the console that’s just the power brick they revealed

Do love the new console excitement....

There's something wrong here when the head of Xbox says it fades into the background and doesn't demand attention.

Foreshadowing much?

eh... Why is it designed to be vertical when cabinets are horizontal and thus that's why electronics that connect to a tv are horizontal. I still like the design, just wrong direction.

I don't get all the negativity about the name and shape? Nintendo came out with the fugly GameCube which was a cube and a stupid name. It had zero impact on the enjoyment of the games it ran. Microsoft makes theirs a cuboid and calls it the Xbox Series X and people are losing it. And if you cannot figure out which Xbox is the latest model on the store shelf because the name is throwing you off, there are people there that can help you. I guess if the name and shape is all people are complaining about, they must be doing OK so far.

I'm looking at my Xbox One X from the top and if you cut that in half horizontally and stack that piece on top, it doesn't seem big at all unless you place it vertically, of course.

The name though, is going to confuse parents for sure. What's funny is, I don't think Microsoft needs to sell a lot of this console to be successful. I think their goal is to sell subscriptions to Game Pass and/or give people an easier entry to decent powered hardware with the monthly payment plan.

Whether you choose to ignore the console and prefer the PC or game on your phone, as long as they get people people to subscribe to Game Pass, that's constant money through the year. The Xcloud thing will change a lot of peoples minds when they realize they can play their library on the phone.

i'm a pc player but have also a ps3 and an xbox 360. i'm not a big fan of halo and gears of war but i'm a big fan of forza, the ps3 has amazing exclusives : uncharted, last of us and mgs 4 but i like the monolithic shape of the x thing. it will perhaps solve the overheating problem.

i plan to get a 4K tv next year but dont know if i'll get some next gen console, the price of console games is just crazy imo.

i play video games since pong and space invaders so i'm kind of used playing with square shooting another blocks and having big fun with it.

i passed current gen because it came when i just as i pourchased a very serious pc rig but the prices they're asking for any single game is just insane, with dlc, season pass, soon you'll have to pay 150 $$ for a complete game, thanks, but no thanks.

I feel like placing it horizontally wont do much, seeing how incredibly thick it is.

If an apartment building fell on its side it would still be huge.

Idk. I feel like it's too big. I feel like most people will place it vertically, then dislike it and try horizontally, then dislike that and go back to vertical, but still be mad.

Its 2020. Consoles need to be 2 inches tall max.

And it's also a huge bummer that this thing looks identical to a beefy PC but has no VR support. Boo.

It still only plays Gears of War ,Halo and Forza,the thing can make waffles if it doesnt have the games its worthless. I have always owned both systems from each generation until this one,the Xbox just didnt have a single game that justified me buying a whole system to play it. My PS4 has been the most amazing system I have ever owned and its just because of the games,thats why I game. Microsoft had better come up with some games besides Gears 8 or Halo 7 or theyll get smashed. This is just my opinion so dont let it trigger all you sensitive soul's.

This might be a worse name then WiiU, wtf Microsoft?!?