It’s marginally bigger than the Xbox One S, too, but you’d need to have them side by side to notice. You get a pair of HDMI ports – one input, one output – two USB ports, an IR blaster connection, optical S/PDIF and Gigabit Ethernet. The optical disc slot has moved slightly and is now hidden slightly in the crease between the console’s top and bottom parts, and the USB port and infrared receiver have swapped sides, while at the rear nothing at all has changed. Xbox One X vs PS4 Pro: Which 4K console should get pride of place in your living room? The main body of the console appears to almost float above a slightly smaller plinth while the X-shaped, backlit power button still resides on the right side. The design philosophy has been carried on from the Xbox One S with a few minor changes. Microsoft has gone back to black with the Xbox One X: and it looks as good as the One S with a few minor changes. More importantly, Microsoft dispensed with the external power brick at the same time, and gave it a performance boost to deal with HDR and 4K Blu-ray playback. Microsoft tightened this design substantially with the Xbox One S, offering a console that looked lighter thanks to its white colour and lower profile. The original Xbox One was a bulky black thing, closer in appearance to an old school DVD player than a modern games console. The Xbox One X lands on 7 November, and we’ll have a full review in time for that, but for now we have a few initial impressions thanks to a hands-on session with Assassin’s Creed Origins.

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