Feature: It's A Big Birthday For The Xbox Series X, So Let's Look Back At Our Review From 2020

Pure Xbox was in an interesting place back in 2020 - we'd just relaunched the website in March of that year after multiple years on hiatus, and then the COVID pandemic arrived around the same time, causing havoc around the world.

For the folks at Microsoft, they had an Xbox Series X launch to plan for, and there were many times throughout that year when we thought the console might end up missing 2020 by some distance. It did end up arriving on November 10th though (exactly five years ago), and it was joined by the surprise arrival of the Xbox Series S as well.

The Xbox Series X still remained our main focus back then, and Microsoft graciously sent us a pre-release unit to review for two weeks prior to launch. I personally spent every spare moment sampling the console as much as I possibly could (all from home of course!), and our review ultimately went live five days ahead of release.