Xbox One Consoles Discontinued by Microsoft Again in 2020

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It’s true! Microsoft has lengthy since late 2020 stopped manufacturing Xbox One consoles. Microsoft first discontinued all Xbox One, Xbox One X and digital Xbox One S consoles earlier than the Xbox Collection X / S launch on November 10, 2020. Then a month later Microsoft stopped making Xbox One S in December 2020, at which level the remaining inventory largely bought out.

Right here’s what Cindy Walker, senior director of Xbox console product advertising and marketing, needed to say about discontinuing Xbox One console manufacturing in an announcement to The Verge.

To cite the official cause: “To give attention to manufacturing of Xbox Collection X / S, we stopped manufacturing for all Xbox One consoles by the top of 2020.”

Which isn’t any shock with semiconductor shortages being at an all-time excessive throughout the 2020-2021 Corona disaster, which remains to be on-going. It makes excellent sense for Microsoft to need to give attention to their latest Xbox Collection X & S consoles.

Funnily sufficient, Sony did the alternative out of necessity… they began producing extra PS4 consoles — as an alternative of stopping PS4 manufacturing on the finish of 2021 like they initially deliberate — as a result of they couldn’t get sufficient of the brand new PS5 console’s chipsets to make extra of these programs. Therefore the PlayStation 5 shortages by no means went away even in 2022.

Are you unhappy to see the Xbox One go?

I think about having a full Xbox One backwards compatibility mode on the brand new Xbox Collection X / S helps soften the blow. 🙂