The Xbox Series X gets a rare price cut with $50 off

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Black Friday is just one week away! But many retailers don't seem to care that it's not the official date yet, and have already kicked off major Black Friday sales. The latest retailer to launch Black Friday gaming deals is Microsoft, with its Black Friday Xbox promotion. You can bag up to 55% off select Xbox games, next-gen console deals, and free engravings on Design Lab controllers.

The best Xbox Black Friday deal so far is $50 off the Xbox Series X model, now only $449.99 down from $499.99 directly from Microsoft, or you can get the same deal from other retailers like Amazon and Target too.

Xbox Series X console 1TB at MicrosoftWas: $499.99Now: Save: $50

Xbox Series X console 1TB at Microsoft
Was: $499.99
Now: $449
Save: $50

Overview: The Xbox Series X is the flagship console from Microsoft that has proved itself to be a powerful games console with impressive hardware - plus a huge catalogue of games readily available to play or stream through Xbox Game Pass.

Key specs: CPU: 8x Cores @ 3.8 GHz | GPU: 12 TFLOPS, 52 CUs @ 1.825 GHz | Memory: 16 GB GDDR6 w/ 320b bus | Internal Storage: 1TB Custom NVME SSD | External Storage: USB 3.2 External HDD | Optical Drive: 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive

Release date: November 2020

Price history: When the Xbox Series X first came out, it retailed at $499/£449 and this price hasn't budged at all since, making this Black Friday deal a bargain.

Price check: $448 at Amazon | $449 at Target

Review Consensus: We gave the Xbox Series X a glowing 4.5-star review when we tested it back in 2022 and found that even 2 years after release, it remained a powerful games console (and PS5 rival) with Game Pass as its secret weapon offering exceptional value.

Creative Bloq: ⭑⭑⭑⭑ | Tom's Guide: ⭑⭑⭑⭑ |

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Beth Nicholls
Beth Nicholls
Ecommerce Writer

Beth is Creative Bloq’s Ecommerce Writer and has the fun job of finding you the very best prices and deals on creative tech. Beth kicked off her journalistic career writing for Digital Camera World, and has since earned bylines on TechRadar too. With a Masters degree in Photography, Beth loves getting to tinker with new cameras, especially camera phones, as the resident Samsung fan on the team. Her background working as a tester for CeX let her play around with all kinds of weird and wonderful products, including robots, and she’s recently gotten into 3D printing too. Outside of CB, you’ll find her gaming on her PS5, photographing local shows under the alias Bethshootsbands, and making TikToks of her dog, Tilly. 

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