Xbox Series X25 Price Leak Puts the Anniversary Console at €899.99 for a Black Friday Launch
The Xbox Series X25 price has leaked ahead of Microsoft's own announcement, and the figure attached to it is €899.99 for the console bundle in France and the wider European market. The same leak sets the release date as Friday 27 November — Black Friday — for the translucent green 25th anniversary edition of the Xbox Series X.
Microsoft has confirmed the console itself. It has never confirmed a price, and it has not confirmed this one.
What the Xbox Series X25 price leak actually says
The figures come from a European deals-tracking source with a long record of accurate console and hardware pricing leaks, published today. It lists a single bundle: the 1TB Xbox Series X25 with a disc drive, packaged with the matching X25 controller, at €899.99. That is roughly €100 above the standard 1TB Xbox Series X with a disc drive, according to published reports.
Two things the leak does not give you. There is no confirmed United States price — dollar figures circulating today are conversions and estimates, not part of the leaked listing, and Microsoft prices consoles per region rather than converting. And there is no pre-order date. The leak explicitly says the pre-order opening remains unknown.
Treat all of this as unconfirmed. It is a pricing leak from a source with a track record, not a retailer listing that went live early and not anything Microsoft has published.
What Microsoft has actually confirmed about the X25
The console was announced properly at the Xbox Games Showcase on 7 June and detailed on Microsoft's own newsroom the same day. Confirmed at that point:
- A translucent "OG Green" Xbox Series X, the first translucent design in the Series X line, styled after the original 2001 Xbox
- 1TB of storage
- The front "X" lights up green, a callback to the original console's boot sequence, with a 25th Anniversary badge on the front
- A matching Xbox Wireless Controller X25 Special Edition with the original four-colour ABXY buttons and a transparent rear shell, sold separately as well as bundled
- A November launch in select markets
- No price
The part worth being blunt about: the internals are unchanged. This is a standard Xbox Series X in a different shell. There is no CPU, GPU or storage improvement over the console already on shelves, so the premium buys the case, the lighting and the badge. If you want a Series X to play games on, the standard model plays them identically.
When Microsoft is likely to confirm it
Gamescom runs from 26 to 30 August in Cologne, with Opening Night Live on 25 August. That is the obvious slot for Microsoft to put an official price and pre-order date on the X25, and it is where published reports expect the confirmation to land. If the leaked figure is wrong, that is when it gets corrected.
The Black Friday date is the detail that reads as deliberate rather than coincidental. Launching a limited-edition console at a €100 premium on the single biggest discount day of the year is a specific choice, and it means the X25 will be sitting on shelves next to standard Series X consoles that are actively being marked down.
How this fits the wider console pricing picture
Console prices have been moving upward across the board this year rather than settling. Nintendo has just raised the Switch 2 price in the UK to £419.99, and hardware costs have been pushed around by memory pricing across the industry. A €899.99 collector's console is an outlier, but it is not arriving into a market where anything is getting cheaper.
For anyone weighing the spend, the more useful question is what the standard Series X already gets you. Microsoft has been steadily adding system features — the latest Xbox Insider build adds local save management and a badge viewer — and all of that lands on existing hardware for nothing. The same goes for the software side, where the current Game Pass wave adds Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy on day one, and Free Play Days is unlocking Train Sim World 6 and Icarus through the weekend. None of that is gated behind the anniversary shell.
If you already own a Series X and mainly want somewhere else to play, the controller is the cheaper route into the same nostalgia — and an Xbox pad works with a large slice of the Play Store, as our list of Android games with full gamepad support covers.
We will update when Microsoft confirms pricing.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much will the Xbox Series X25 cost?
A leak published on 21 August puts the Xbox Series X25 bundle at €899.99 in France and the wider European market, covering the 1TB console with a disc drive plus the matching X25 controller. Microsoft has not confirmed any price. No United States price has leaked, so dollar figures being quoted elsewhere are conversions rather than confirmed pricing.
When does the Xbox Series X25 come out?
The leak gives a release date of Friday 27 November, which is Black Friday. Microsoft has only officially said the console arrives in November in select markets. The pre-order opening date has not been leaked or announced.
Is the Xbox Series X25 more powerful than a normal Xbox Series X?
No. Microsoft confirmed at announcement that the X25 uses the same internals as the standard Xbox Series X, with 1TB of storage. There is no CPU, GPU or performance improvement. You are paying for the translucent OG Green shell, the green-lit X logo and the 25th Anniversary badge.
Can you buy the X25 controller on its own?
Yes. Microsoft confirmed the Xbox Wireless Controller X25 Special Edition will be sold separately as well as bundled with the console. It uses the same translucent shell and brings back the original four-colour ABXY button layout. A standalone price has not been officially confirmed.
Does the Xbox Series X25 have a disc drive?
The leaked listing describes a 1TB console with a disc drive included, which matches the standard Xbox Series X configuration rather than the all-digital model. Microsoft has not published the final hardware configuration, so this remains unconfirmed until an official announcement.
