The Xbox Series S mid-lifestyles refresh is a toaster?

You can now get an Xbox Series S toaster to go along with your Xbox Series X fridge. Microsoft quietly launched a -slice bread toaster modeled after its virtual-simplest console. In addition to searching like a Series S, it emblazons your toast, frozen waffles, bagels, or English desserts with the Xbox logo. Talk approximately product placement.

The Xbox Series S toaster turned into first noticed in France approximately 9 months in the past. Presumably, it did nicely sufficient there that Microsoft figured it'd provide it greater broadly. It is presently to be had at Walmart for $forty, which is not a terrible rate for a fanboy toaster, as long as scalpers do not start shopping for up whole allotments and strive flipping them for 3 times the rate.

While its iconic black grill vent makes it typically appear like its console counterpart, its extra width, rubber toes on the lowest, and toaster controls at the side supply the illusion away. Sorry, you might not idiot all and sundry into questioning you modded your Xbox to cook dinner your bread.

In addition to six toasting stages, it has a defrost button for flawlessly crisping your Eggos directly from the freezer. Instead of two slots, it has one slot huge sufficient to fit two slices of bread. A bagel button tells the toaster to cook thicker breads like rubber biscuits or English cakes a tad longer. The device additionally has an LED countdown timer to permit you to realize whilst to have your butter knife equipped.

Toasting the Xbox logo into your bread is clever however no longer all that specific. Two years in the past, Bungie released a Destiny-themed toaster for a Saint Jude fundraiser that etched the Destiny emblem on bread. The most important difference is that with the Series S toaster, the Xbox logo is inverse, so your toast is more lightly cooked than Bungie's burnt-in emblem on commonly untoasted bread (beneath).

The Xbox Series S toaster is the second kitchen equipment from Microsoft's gaming department. Jokes and memes about the Series X searching like a refrigerator flooded social media quickly after the gaming department unveiled its two next-gen consoles. Xbox took the mild-hearted ribbing in stride, even poking a laugh with its personal meme.

However, Microsoft took it to an entire nuhva degree whilst it gave Snoop Dogg a extensive Xbox Series X refrigerator for his birthday, packed with a Series X cake and lots of Gin and Juice. Redmond then went directly to release a limited-version mini fridge. Unfortunately, the $99 cooler was snapped up by using scalpers handiest 10 minutes after going on sale and at once began performing on auction websites for $300 or extra.

Scalper hobby for the toaster has up to now been low, with just a few listings on eBay selling for among $50 and $a hundred. As of publishing, you may nonetheless pick out up an Xbox Series S toaster from Walmart for $forty with loose transport, so steer clean of secondhand income.

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