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Hey there, listeners. It's Brett Molina. Welcome back to Talking Tech. Just when you thought taking up video games as a hobby was expensive, along comes Gucci, which is partnering with Microsoft on a limited edition version of the Xbox Series X. Gucci will offer a version of this adorned with the fashion house's unique designs on its website starting November 17th. Only 100 of the consoles will be available. You can read more details on this in a story that I wrote for tech.usatoday.com. Here's the catch. Unlike the standard Xbox Series X, which is roughly $300 to $400, this Gucci branded console is going to sell for an eye-popping $10,000. So what does exactly $10,000 gets you? According to the listing that's available on Gucci's website, the console features a laser cut monogram of the letters GG, which represents both the initials of the founder, as well as shorthand for good game, which is commonly used in video games.

If you ever play a video game online or on PC or on a console, you might see someone throw up GG in the chat. It's just a very quick way of saying good game. Especially on a console where it's not as easy to chat and you're just trying to get a quick message out there while you're playing, that's why people type GG. Along with the console, you get custom Gucci branded Xbox controllers, a Gucci hard case for carrying the console with Xbox and Good Game printed on it in bright green letters. You also get a subscription to Xbox's Game Pass Unlimited, which is the Netflix style service that Microsoft has available for its console and as well as PC, where users can stream dozens of free games. So it's really great. You have a lot of different games to pick from, even newer games as well. A lot of the newer games that are available day-and-date are available on this platform as well.

So it's a really good deal. Typically, it runs around $15 a month. So for what you get for Game Pass, it's really good. So you get all that in one package for $10,000. Now there's good reason that Xbox and Gucci are doing this. I don't know if there's a good reason to offer a $10,000 Xbox. But the reason they're doing it is both of these brands are celebrating anniversaries this year. Xbox is turning 20 this month. The first Xbox launched in 2001. Gucci, meanwhile, has been around a lot longer. They are celebrating its 100th anniversary. On Monday, Microsoft hosted the special stream where they honored the 20th anniversary of the Xbox. Lots of news out of that. We'll talk a little bit more about that tomorrow. In particular, probably the biggest announcement from it involving Halo Infinite.

If you want to read more about that, read more about what happened during the Microsoft event, or read about anything related to video games, be sure to hit up tech.usatoday.com. Listeners, let's hear from you. Do you have any comments, questions, or show ideas? Any tech problems you want us to try to address? And if you're a fan of the Xbox, do you have any fun memories you want to share? Maybe I'll throw a couple out there during next episode. Let me know on Twitter, I'm @BrettMolina23. Please don't forget to subscribe and rate us, or leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, anywhere you get your podcast. Don't forget, we have a newsletter, too. You can get it every Thursday in your inbox. Just go to newsletters.usatoday.com to sign up. You've been listening to Talking Tech. We'll be back tomorrow with another quick hit from the world of tech.

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