Summary
- The Xbox Countdown Sale 2024 offers deep discounts on PC, Xbox One and Series X|S games until January 2, 2025.
- Gamers can save on 2024's biggest titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, with discounts on previous year's hits also available.
- Up to 80% savings on select Xbox 360 titles, remasters and remakes will be available during the sale.
Xbox has launched its massive 2024 Countdown Sale with deep discounts on many of the year's biggest games for PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Certain Xbox and third-party games are heavily discounted during the Xbox Countdown Sale 2024, allowing gamers to save money during the holiday season.
Every December, Microsoft hosts a limited-time countdown sale that celebrates the year's biggest releases on Xbox while discounting popular games from previous years. Xbox players who held off on buying games at launch can make savings on those games and their respective DLC packs. Those shopping for gifts for Xbox Series X|S owners may want to consider an Xbox gift card as an option, as hundreds of digital games are available at the lowest prices ever.
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The Xbox Countdown Sale 2024 is now live through January 2, 2025 on the Microsoft Store with over 1,000 deals on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S games. Some of 2024's biggest Xbox games are on sale with deep discounts, including 25% off Call of Duty: Black Ops 640% discount on Dragon's Dogma 260% discount on EA Sports FC 25 and Tekken 8and 70% on F1 24. Xbox fans can also save 40% or more on hit titles from 2022 and 2023, including FromSoftware's Fire RingCD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Editionand Remedy's Alan Wake 2. First-party titles such as Forza Motorsport, Sea of Thieves, Microsoft Flight Simulatorand Forza Horizon 5 are also discounted by up to 50%.
The Xbox Countdown Sale 2024 is now live on the Microsoft Store
Gamers who already own many of 2024's best games on Xbox can also save up to 80% on select Xbox 360 titles, which are backwards compatible on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. These discounted games include Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Asura's Wrath, Castlevania: Lords of Shadowand Blue dragon. To see all of these sales by platform and genre, Xbox players can go to the Microsoft Store app on Xbox and go to the Deals section or browse the official Xbox website's Countdown Sale section. It's worth noting that there's a gifting option, so players can buy discounted titles for their friends this holiday season.
Remasters and remakes are also included in the Xbox Countdown Sale this year, including a big discount on Capcoms Okami HD and Resident Evil 2. Overall, the Countdown Sale is the best opportunity for Xbox players to catch up on games they've missed and earn achievements before new games that Avowed, Ring of Fire: Nightreignand more to come in 2025.
Xbox Series X
Microsoft's ninth-generation console, the Xbox Series X, is a powerful machine that can support 4K resolution and 60 fps, depending on the game. Released alongside the Xbox Series S, the Series X features a Custom AMD Zen 2 CPU, a Custom RDNA 2 GPU and 16GB of RAM.
- Stamp
- Microsoft
- Operating system
- Proprietary (Windows based)
- Storage
- 1TB WD SN530 NVMe SSD
- VR support
- No
- Resolution
- 720p – 4K UHD
- App Store
- Microsoft Store
- WiFi
- Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11ac
- Harbors
- AC, Ethernet, USB x3, Storage Expansion, HDMI
- HDR support
- Yes
- Original release date
- November 10, 2020
- Original MSRP (USD)
- $499 USD
- Weight
- 9.8 LBS
- Measure
- 151 x 151 x 301 mm
- Processor
- Custom AMD 8-core Zen 2 3.8 GHz
