After quickly selling out earlier this year, Microsoft dropped a limited number of its 25th Anniversary Xbox Series X consoles for sale this week-- aaaaannnd they're already gone . Easily the best-looking Xbox Series X console thanks to its transparent green case, it looks like the majority of people looking to get one of these are out of luck, unless they're willing to pony up and pay extra for one of these consoles on sites like eBay, where they're currently being listed at next-gen console prices. Naturally, fans who missed out are livid, and online, they're calling out Xbox's first-come first-serve business model for selling the console, as opposed to a method like a lottery system that would even the playing field. Several disappointed buyers say that scalpers and bots go to all the remaining stock first, as they claim that it was sold out within seconds once again. People are espec
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