Microsoft is reportedly preparing to launch a new white, digital-only version of its top-end Xbox Series X console in “June or July” this year.
An “adorably all-digital” Xbox Series X refresh, planned for a 2024 release, first surfaced as part of a mammoth leak of official Microsoft documentation during last year’s court battle with the FTC. However, Xbox boss Phil Spencer later insisted “so much has changed” since the plans detailed in the leak had been drawn up, leaving the all-digital console’s future uncertain.
But now, noted leaker eXtas1s (writing for Exputer) has claimed that not only are Microsoft’s all-digital Xbox Series X plans still alive, the console is set to release “sometime between the upcoming months of June and July” – although “chances for a slight delay” remain.
According to eXtas1s – who claims to have seen “confidential footage” of the new console – this digital-only version of the Xbox Series X will, as well as jettisoning the optical disc drive of the original model, feature an improved heatsink and upgraded Nexus card. It’s also claimed the revision will be white, in an inversion of the current Series X colour scheme, but it sounds like all other aspects of the console will remain the same.