Xbox One officially discontinued by Microsoft

Xbox Ane officially discontinued past Microsoft

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The Xbox One debuted in 2022, and all told, it had a seven-twelvemonth run. Microsoft recently confirmed what panel hunters have suspected for a while: Xbox One production officially ended in 2022, as Microsoft shifted focus to manufacturing Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S systems.

This conclusion stands in stark contrast to Sony, which hopes to produce a meg more PS4s before the end of 2022, as the company simply tin can't supply plenty PlayStation 5 consoles for PS5 restocks.

Information comes from The Verge, which received a statement directly from Microsoft:

"To focus on production of Xbox Serial X/S, we stopped product for all Xbox One consoles past the end of 2022," said Cindy Walker, who works every bit a senior director of Xbox console product marketing.

In hindsight, this explains why Xbox One consoles have been then hard to come by for the past two years, whereas PS4s have been relatively easy. Back when the Xbox Series X debuted, a ton of customers bought the Xbox 1 10 instead, presumably by accident, since the 2 products had such similar names. Simply since then, Xbox Ones accept been pretty much incommunicable to find, unless you wanted used models.

All the same, if you haven't been able to notice an Xbox Series Ten and wanted an Xbox One as a alleviation prize, in that location'southward some good news. Microsoft's decision to discontinue the Xbox 1 made information technology possible to produce more Xbox Serial X and Series 10 consoles instead. While Series X consoles are notwithstanding near impossible to find, Serial S stock has more than or less stabilized. While the Xbox Series South lacks a disc drive, it's otherwise a meliorate console than the Xbox One in every way, featuring higher resolutions, ameliorate frame rates and much faster load times.

The downside is that discontinuing the Xbox I doesn't seem to have stock-still the Xbox Series 10 restock shortage. Even past focusing all of its attention on current-gen Xbox consoles, Microsoft has non been able to meet the heavy need for the Xbox Serial Ten. Xbox boss Phil Spencer discussed some of the complicated logistics in an interesting New York Times interview, but the bottom line is that every step of the supply concatenation is compromised in some way. From scrap shortages on the manufacturing terminate, to ruthless scalpers on the retail end, the console marketplace is just a mess correct now.

The good news is that even if you don't take an Xbox Series Ten, y'all can play its games on other platforms, thanks to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate's cloud gaming features. Only if you've been hunting for an Xbox One all this time, it'due south probably time to just pick upwardly a Series Southward instead. In the meantime, run across how the Xbox I'due south spirit is living on in the Xbox Series 10 console.

Marshall Honorof is a senior editor for Tom's Guide, overseeing the site'south coverage of gaming hardware and software. He comes from a scientific discipline writing groundwork, having studied paleomammalogy, biological anthropology, and the history of science and technology. After hours, you can find him practicing taekwondo or doing deep dives on classic sci-fi.