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You should start making room in your entertainment center – photos of Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S appeared in journalists’ living rooms today and they look huge.
While the Xbox Series S appears to be a slightly portlier version of the Xbox One X with a taller front end, and therefore won’t take up too much space in its current configuration, its older brother is another story: at 15.1 “x 6” x 12 “the Xbox Series X is a serious beast, and easily twice the size of other consoles.
GameSpot was one of the selected outlets to receive a non-functional ‘dummy’ unit for photos and compared it to the PS4 Pro, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One X.
The results are … well, almost comical, as GameSpot’s Michael Higham showed in several tweets:
I have in my hands the Xbox Series S and Series X prototypes … Submitted by Microsoft These designs are SLICK, especially the S Series! I did some size comparisons to the current generation, saw how they fit my bankrupt boy Ikea setup. Check my breakdown at @GameSpot: https://t.co/qE5eIvk66j pic.twitter.com/oM4l4XC5VwSeptember 10, 2020
Seriously, just look at it. And you have to be careful not to block the fan, as Higham points out:
yes it’s still a bit thick but you also need to make sure there is room on the right side (not like in this photo hahaha) since that’s where the fan is pic.twitter.com/m9RnrLpYpmSeptember 10, 2020
How much space do you need exactly?
Having current-gen consoles alongside newer consoles is quite helpful in determining exactly how much space we’ll need to reserve for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.
For example, we can see from some of the photos that the Xbox Series S is almost exactly the same size as the PS4 Pro. The PS4 Pro seems a bit taller, but in terms of the two new Xbox consoles, the S Series is a 60% smaller than the Xbox Series X, according to Microsoft.
The best comparison for the Xbox Series X is against the Nintendo Switch, strangely, since it seems that the width of the two consoles (with Series X on its side) is practically the same. Of course, the X Series is much thicker than the Nintendo Switch and has the top rack that needs to be accounted for.
However, good luck fitting it into your home entertainment center.
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