Amazon is Selling It's 'No Console Required' Xbox Bundle With a Major Discount for Prime Day 2025

And yet, aft a question of layoffs (many of which deed the Xbox marque and adjacent led to workplace closures and crippled cancellations) should you prime 1 up?

Put Your Money Where Microsoft’s Mouth is?

Microsoft has been showing however thing tin beryllium an Xbox successful caller months, and present you tin spot for yourself. The Fire TV 4K Max instrumentality included has treble the retention for games and apps, but you’ll beryllium streaming games via the cloud.

Doing truthful volition springiness you entree to immoderate of the year’s biggest games, Microsoft oregon otherwise. Game Pass this twelvemonth has seen the accomplishment of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Blue Prince, DOOM: The Dark Ages, Avowed, and this week’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+, to sanction a few.

Plus, if you don't request the full bundle, for anyone looking to upgrade their streaming set-up, there’s thing present for each benignant of spectator amongst the newest models for Fire TV Sticks connected merchantability for Prime Day.

The biggest item among this acceptable of Prime Day deals is the Fire TV Stick 4K Max, which is present disposable for $34.99, a coagulated 42% driblet from its accustomed $59.99 terms tag.

And yet, the institution besides raised prices connected conscionable astir everything, from controllers to games and consoles, starring immoderate to wonderment if Game Pass is truly worthy each this hassle.

In fact, wrong a fewer months, Microsoft has fundamentally priced itself higher than its console rival, PlayStation, closed studios, laid disconnected immense numbers of unit (again…) and announced an Xbox handheld that’s made by idiosyncratic other (ASUS). It’s hard not to consciousness arsenic though the institution is shifting, yet again, and that bully radical volition carnivore the brunt of it.

There’s each accidental we’re surviving successful a satellite soon wherever a Fire Stick is your Xbox console, contempt what Microsoft says astir a caller console generation.

For now, the thought is surely appealing. Plug the instrumentality in, link the controller, download the Xbox app, and you’re bully to go, with a period of Xbox Game Pass included arsenic a integer codification sent via email.

Not lone that, but the Electric Volt controller included is simply a large summation that you tin besides usage connected your PC, and the Fire TV instrumentality is perfect for allowing you to browse conscionable astir immoderate media app including Netflix, Disney Plus, and galore more.

Looking for conscionable the controller? Walmart has you covered there!

Xbox-less bundles does rotation with however things are looking for Microsoft. Recently 1 of the archetypal founding members of Xbox, Laura Fryer, said she believes the firm's hardware ambitions are "dead."

In a caller video successful which Fryer reflects upon her clip shipping the OG Xbox and Xbox 360, she calls the company's existent roadmap "chaos," asks "is the flashy caller ROG Ally the existent deal," and ponders what the aboriginal whitethorn clasp for Xbox going forward.

Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer successful tech, gaming and fittingness seen astatine Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and galore more. He's a large instrumentality of Magic: The Gathering and different collectible paper games, overmuch to his wife's dismay.

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Jul 8, 2025 3:30 pm