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Xbox Series S🎮 All-digital next-gen console 🏃 Faster load times📈 Higher frame rates🌎 Richer, more dynamic worlds🔥 Next generation gaming performance 🔎 In our smallest Xbox ever#PowerYourDreams pic.twitter.com/5GxCBiSVtOSeptember 8, 2020

Xbox Series S is coming on November 10, with a standard price of $299 / £249. While we still don't know the official price or release date for Xbox Series X, we do know that Series S is meant to be 60% smaller than its cousin. From everything we've heard before, it's likely going to be positioned as a smaller, more affordable, and overall more accessible entry point to Microsoft's new console generation.

The reveal trailer confirms the console doesn't contain a disc drive, can run next-gen games at up to 120 frames-per-second and 1440p on a custom NVE SSD, and is 60% smaller than the Xbox Series X. Microsoft shared the official look at the console after an escalating series of leaks, including an unofficially uploaded version of the trailer above.

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Microsoft first confirmed Xbox Series S in the tweet below. Before this, the system had been spotted in advertising materials and referred to by its Lockhart codename in developer-facing documents.

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The design of the Xbox Series S appears to feature a giant vent on its side, and more closely resembles its predecessor, the Xbox One S, than Microsoft's other next-gen system. Now we just have to wait and find out if Xbox Series X will come before, after, or perhaps even the same day as Xbox Series S.

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