The Best Black Friday Deals on the Xbox Series X: Best Buy and Walmart Savings

Upgrade your console this Black Friday or surprise your favorite gamer with this Xbox Series X deal. The Xbox Series X is a fantastic gaming system, especially when paired with the Xbox Game Pass, but the price tag has been enough to put some folks off. Right now, you can get the next-gen Microsoft console for as little as $450 from Best Buy. Better yet, the retailer is throwing in $50 of in-store credit to sweeten the deal.

The base discount on the Series X is $50, but you can get another $50 off if you're a My Best Buy Plus or Total member. Whether a member or not, you can take advantage of the $120 worth of trade-in value if you have an old console to hand over, as well as grabbing that $50 Best Buy store credit. So there are some significant savings to pick up.

Another Black Friday deal is a bundle from Walmart that includes the console plus Diablo 4 for $439. The fourth version of Diablo brings "a much needed upgrade" to the Sanctuary world, and by bundling the game with the console, you're saving up to $121.

The Xbox Series X carries the mantle of the Xbox One as a living room entertainment device rather than a standalone gaming powerhouse like the PlayStation 5. With a lot of Windows apps being able to run on the Series X, you can use it as a sort of living room PC just as much as you can a gaming console, so it's not surprising to see that the UI is built around a mixed media concept.

That doesn't mean it isn't a powerful gaming console, with similar hardware under the hood as the PS5 it can still run with the best and has a theoretical output of a max 120Hz and 8K resolution. In reality, it's much the same as the PS5, where most games tend to be locked at 60Hz at 4K, which still isn't bad -- just don't expect the big claims on the side of the box.

If you have good internet and want to save a little cash, you can go with the Xbox Series S instead, which has a similar deal on it. It's a diskless system, so you'll have to rely on said internet, but you can grab it for $250 instead of the usual $300. It's also worth keeping an eye out on the Best Buy Black Friday deals page in case any more solid console deals get added.