Upgrade your console this Black Friday or surprise your favorite gamer with this Xbox Series X deal. The Xbox Series X is a fantastic gaming system, especially when paired with the Xbox Game Pass, but the price tag has been enough to put some folks off. Right now, you can get the next-gen Microsoft console for as little as $450 from Best Buy. Better yet, the retailer is throwing in $50 of in-store credit to sweeten the deal.
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The base discount on the Series X is $50, but you can get another $50 off if you’re a My Best Buy Plus or Total member. Whether a member or not, you can take advantage of the $120 worth of trade-in value if you have an old console to hand over, as well as grabbing that $50 Best Buy store credit. So there are some significant savings to pick up.
Another Black Friday deal is a bundle from Walmart that includes the console plus Diablo 4 for $439. The fourth version of Diablo brings “a much needed upgrade” to the Sanctuary world, and by bundling the game with the console, you’re saving up to $121.
The Xbox Series X carries the mantle of the Xbox One as a living room entertainment device rather than a standalone gaming powerhouse like the PlayStation 5. With a lot of Windows apps being able to run on the Series X, you can use it as a sort of living room PC just as much as you can a gaming console, so it’s not surprising to see that the UI is built around a mixed media concept.
That doesn’t mean it isn’t a powerful gaming console, with similar hardware under the hood as the PS5 it can still run with the best and has a theoretical output of a max 120Hz and 8K resolution. In reality, it’s much the same as the PS5, where most games tend to be locked at 60Hz at…
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