Xbox One X review — wait and see

Microsoft has a new Xbox coming out this month, and it’s exactly like the old Xbox and also its mirror opposite. The Xbox One X is not a next-gen console. It is an Xbox One in terms of the games it can play, its operating system, and its controllers and peripherals. At the same time, while the Xbox One started this generation as the least powerful of the two big systems, Microsoft purposefully built the X as “the most powerful console ever.”

If that sounds like it’s straddling the line between more of the same and major advancement, you’re not wrong. I get the sense that Microsoft (and Sony with its similar but less-powerful PlayStation 4 Pro) want people to see the Xbox One X like a smartphone upgrade or one of Nintendo’s 3DS model refreshes.