This is indeed a declaration of intent. After seeing how the Sony and PS5 technical conference ended a few hours ago, Microsoft has decided to announce when we will see his beloved and desired in stores Xbox Series X.
for thanksgiving
It will be on a date as important as Thanksgiving, the traditional holiday in the United States in which family and friends gather to thank the company, although it was originally born to thank God for the year's harvest. So it seems that Microsoft will want to give fans the opportunity to make the leap to the next generation console.
According to the calendar, in this 2020, Thanksgiving will be celebrated next Thursday November 26th (fourth Thursday in November), so it will be on or around that day when Xbox Series X goes on sale. The information comes through the Xbox page itself, which has updated the website of Xbox in India in English to display a banner where you can clearly see that the console will arrive on Thanksgiving 2020.
Neither the version of the United States nor Canada (countries where Thanksgiving is mainly celebrated) have updated the website with the image in question (they point to the holiday period -Christmas- in its case), so we must take the information carefully in case the brand announces some kind of correction in this regard.
Xbox Series X will launch on Thanksgiving 2020https://t.co/WwyyBjeY8a pic.twitter.com/maWJGDLW6F
- Nibel (@Nibellion) March 18, 2020
Will there be Black Friday deals?
The really interesting thing is that, after Thanksgiving, the next day is celebrated the Black Friday, the well-known day of sales throughout the world, so it would be great to see some other distributor jump into the pool with a succulent offer on a recently launched console.
Updated: It seems that Geoff Keighley has had to come to the fore to shed some light. According to the organizer of the Game Awards Through information obtained by sources close to the company, Xbox Series X continues to have "Holiday 2020" as the release date, so until now there is no change in this regard.
According to him, the information published on the web is an error, so everything continues to keep him as before.
UPDATE: Sources tell me the Xbox Series X release date is unchanged and still “Holiday 2020.” There is no announcement today about a release date.
- Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) March 18, 2020
Major Nelson has also wanted to clarify what happened, and ensures that the date quoted in some regions was not correct, confirming that Xbox Series X will continue to be released for the holiday period at the end of 2020.
An Xbox product page in some regions inaccurately listed the launch date for Xbox Series X as Thanksgiving 2020. We are committed to launching Holiday 2020
— Larry Hryb ?✨ (@majornelson) March 18, 2020