Right to Repair

Score breakdown

Why this grade

iFixit scored the Xbox Series X 7/10: all-standard T8 Torx fasteners (no security screws, unlike the PS5), a modular design allowing easy fan, optical-drive, PSU and wireless-board swaps, with the main deduction coming from software locks on some critical component repairs and an SSD that needs heavy disassembly. Edges out Sony on physical access (standard screws) and a more public corporate pro-repair posture (iFixit parts partnership on Surface, As-You-Sow repair commitment), but like Sony, Microsoft provides essentially no official Xbox parts or service manuals to consumers, so it still fails the right-to-repair axes despite good teardown hardware.

Sources

• iFixit Xbox Series X Teardown (7/10, standard Torx, software locks)
• iFixit Xbox Series X repair device hub