When a product of great importance in the industry reaches the stores and manages to generate thousands of sales around the world in a matter of hours, the normal thing is that opinions of all kinds appear, good and bad, because there will always be different points of view . But what we cannot forget either, is that there are people with a lot of free time who take advantage of the trend wave to create virals. And that’s what seems to have happened with Xbox Series X.
Is the Xbox Series X burning?
In the last hours, social networks have echoed a couple of videos in which two users showed how their console apparently went on fire. As can be seen in the images, the Microsoft tower appeared fuming as if it were a chimney, something that obviously has alarmed many users. In both cases, the images showed the console in the front face, and the rear face was never seen.
Why do we have people like this? Blowing Vape into the console’s vent then recording it to drag the console down. These people are beyond disgusting. https://t.co/NFelUv0cKv
– Alexandre | Xbox Series (@mraftw) November 11, 2020
As expected, retweets and posts began to multiply, and on Reddit another user claimed to suffer from the same problem, guaranteeing that his console had started to smoke for no apparent reason. What’s going on?
A bad taste joke
But everything seems to have an explanation, and quite simple. Some users have wanted to show that it is all a joke in bad taste, since as they have shown in other videos, it is enough to place a vape at the back so that the air circulation takes care of the rest.
I made a small experiment with vape ..
same as the fake spreaded video ..
and I even waited for almost a minute and the vape was still there ..
I think because it is tight and well built it kept the vape for a long time inside ..
so from my humble POV,
I see it’s vape .. pic.twitter.com/GKWMgCkCUP
– Ma❌L! ON 🎄 (@ azizalrashed85) November 11, 2020
This is the case of the Twitter user XboxStudio, who wanted to demonstrate how with a simple vape you can achieve the effect of smoke coming out of the interior of the console. Taking a look at the density of the smoke, it seems that the situation agrees with what has been seen previously.
TIRED of the FAKE NEWS.
I leave you a MIO video explaining why the “Burned” console is Fake and how they have achieved this effect even with the console “OFF” pic.twitter.com/LfXzIBSu6N
– Xbox Studio (@XboxStudio) November 11, 2020
Watching the new videos that are appearing, everything seems to be clearer and there is possibly no doubt that there is no problem with any console, much less that one is burning.
It goes without saying that these vape jokes are completely discouraged, as the internal components of the console could be damaged by the moisture generated. So stop joking and forget this matter.
Is there something to worry about?
Unless a user has contacted Microsoft directly and has officially reported this event, for now we can only say that everything has been the result of a joke in bad taste and that Xbox Series X does not suffer any problems beyond of the complicated distribution that the console is suffering around the world, since many users are still looking forward to receiving the new console at home to start playing.