Microsoft Corporation Opens Pre-Orders For Xbox One Elite 1 TB SSHD Bundle

The console is available for pre-orders at select retailers






Microsoft Corporation’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox One Elite bundle is now available for pre-orders at the official Microsoft Store, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME). The bundle is set to ship November 3 and interested fans can now pre-order it from the mentioned retailers.

Announced very recently by Microsoft, this Xbox Elite bundle comes in with a 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD) and with an Xbox Elite Controller, which comes with many interchangeable parts such as replaceable analog sticks and tweakable triggers. The console is available for pre-order at a price of $499.99 and you might want to head over and pre-order right now if you want to get the shiny new console shipped to you in the first batch of shipments.

Interestingly, most of the people get the hard drive specification on the new bundle entirely wrong. The new Xbox Elite Bundle includes a 1 terabyte Solid State Hybrid Drive, which is actually a regular mechanical hard drive with a very small portion of the space being a Solid State Cache. This makes sense especially when you consider the fact that a 1 terabyte Solid State Drive costs upwards of $500 on its own so you might have thought that Microsoft is selling the bundle at a loss which is not the case. For those who like comparisons, a hybrid drive like the one in the elite bundle costs somewhere around $80.

The Hybrid drive should help with the overall performance of the system and speed up things in general, but it will not be anywhere near the performance of an actual Solid State Drive. With that being said, the bundle does include the customizable controller, which retails for $150 on its own. This makes the elite bundle a very good bargain for the price, especially for those who are planning to get an Xbox One this holiday for a plethora of exclusives that are to be released for the system in the coming months.

You can pre-order the console from GameStop, Microsoft Store or Amazon.

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