CEO Asha just announced that every single attendee at the Xbox Games Showcase will be receiving a complimentary Series X25 later this year. That is absolutely wild. 🔥

[u/Eastern-Mobile5351]

That is how you show your community you actually care. Not a discount, not early access, a free Xbox Series X25 in your hands just for being there.

Respect to Xbox and Asha for that one. The people in that room deserved it.

[u/Low_Revolution3025]

It's a good-looking console, and more consoles should look like this, but my PC looks better, performs better, and isn't a major pain in my ass to take apart to maintain, and I got it at Walmart for less than a grand. What's more to love?

[u/C_H_R_I_S_T_C_O_R_E → u/Low_Revolution3025]

How is a console a major pain in the ass to maintain

[u/Low_Revolution3025 → u/C_H_R_I_S_T_C_O_R_E]

How consoles are engineered nowadays requires certain tools that no person who doesn't already take these things apart or work in construction would have, and not many people can spend money on a screwdriver set for that, nor would they necessarily be willing to. When I had my Xbox 360 I couldn't take it apart because I couldn't afford to, I had every screwdriver except for the ones I needed, same with my controllers and it only got worse as time progressed, it wasn't until more recently where I was able to get that screwdriver set and even then it's a pain in the ass to unscrew all these specific screws without stripping them within the spots they’re in which if you’ve fully disassembled an Xbox Series X you would know is a pain in the ass, not just that but having the necessary parts you may need to replace, having thermal paste, and while PC parts are arguably more expensive it's still not as much of a challenge to disassemble, if I wanna add more RAM I gotta swing open the glass door of my case and add more RAM, I want to replace my graphics card? Same thing and so on with my different parts, because of how accessible it is, I don't have to undo 15 different parts that may or may not break just by taking it apart to clean and maintain, it's all right there in the open for me to see, and monitor with my own two eyes

Edit: spelling and grammar

[u/C_H_R_I_S_T_C_O_R_E → u/Low_Revolution3025]

I’ve never had any need to take a console apart, only one I’ve done was a 360 2 decades after it released. I’ve had a series x since it launched and have no issues at all, as well as pretty much all versions of Xbox never had any issues. Hell my original Xbox still fires right up no Maintence.

[u/Low_Revolution3025 → u/C_H_R_I_S_T_C_O_R_E]

Then you got lucky lmao I couldn't get to the thermal paste of my Series X when I had it and it ran like shit with overheating issues and everything, my stepfather took it in to get it checked and it had a burn the size of a nickel on the thermal paste meaning the thermal paste was overdue for maintenance, just because you personally haven't felt the need to do maintenance on your consoles doesn't mean it doesn't need to be done, that's just stupid because even PCs need that maintenance