Xbox has put a working Series X inside an artificial alligator more than five feet long. The controller sits between its jaws, complete with bite marks. Somewhere, a perfectly adequate black rectangle has lost another argument with marketing.
Creature specialists John Nolan Studio built the one-off Series X-BITE using modeling, sculpting and fabrication. The studio’s credits include Jurassic World Dominion and The Witcher, which explains why this particular console enclosure has rather more presence than the usual plastic shell.
Xbox says the hardware works, then recommends the creation primarily as a display piece. That feels about right. It is an impressively elaborate object whose most obvious function is making every other thing in the room look insufficiently committed.
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Featured image: illustrative standard Xbox controllers, not the X-BITE build. Photo by AlexZade / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display; the image remains under CC BY-SA 4.0. Video: Xbox.
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