I feel sorry for anyone having to deal with parents trying to buy an Xbox at retail during holiday 2020.
"Hi, I'd like to buy an Xbox."
"Great! Do you want the Xbox One, the Xbox One S, the Xbox One X, the Xbox Series S*, or the Xbox Series X?"
I liked Hellblade quite a bit, but I didn't really want a sequel to it (and it doesn't quite make sense for it to have one given how that game ends). The console's a giant black brick with air vents at the top. As a console reveal, I felt that it was fairly underwhelming.
Honestly, my big thought when the name was revealed was "wow, did Doctor K invent this thing?"
And with the information that's been released since, even if I did want one of these the Series S* is out of the question. It has no disc drive, so none of the 360 or One games I own on disc will work on it. I bought my One for pretty much Sunset Overdrive, and if it wasn't for Rare Replay and the BC games I'd think it was a wasted purchase. I'm not seeing anything as entertaining in what Microsoft's shown so far games-wise, so that price point is way beyond what I'm prepared to pay for this thing.
*during the Game Awards, there was this graphic going around of there being 2 Xbox Series Models: an S & the X that we saw. The S was supposed to be an all-digital console for a lesser price. However, since seeing that, I haven't seen that posted elsewhere, so it might have been nonsense.