Xbox Alpha update teaches a lesson about creating early-adopting updates

Members of the Xbox Alpha testing group, consumers that try out upcoming updates before they go live for everyone, were surprised to find out this week that the latest Alpha update was a bit more destructive than simply not working. It is occasionally the case that one of these updates does not fully realize one of its new features that is still in testing, but that’s not quite the case with the latest update. This one actually reset the entire Xbox to factory settings, essentially wiping everything from the console.

Members of the insider testing group turned on their Xbox consoles, both Series S and Series X, and were confronted by a rather succinct “There was a problem with the update” message.