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Unboxing the Xbox One X Gears 5 Limited Edition Bundle

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Microsoft just unwrapped a console that sounds like a glacier and looks like it was carved out of one.

The Coalition and Microsoft pulled back the curtain on August 6, 2019, revealing the Xbox One X Gears 5 Limited Edition Bundle ahead of its September 6 launch — and the official unboxing video makes clear this isn’t a simple paint-job console. It’s the first custom-designed limited edition Xbox One X since the console family debuted in 2017, built around Gears 5’s Kait Diaz storyline rather than the franchise’s usual crimson branding.

• The 1TB console features an off-white, snow-and-ice aesthetic co-designed by Gears of War franchise head Rod Fergusson, not the red shell some early descriptions claimed.
• The bundle retails for $499 and includes digital downloads of Gears 5 Ultimate Edition, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, and backward-compatible copies of Gears of War 2, 3, and 4.
• Powering the console on and off triggers custom audio cues — the sound of ice freezing at startup and cracking ice at shutdown — replacing the standard Xbox chimes.

The Console Design

Forget the generic red-and-black Gears look Microsoft has used on past hardware tie-ins. This console wears a dark translucent top shell etched with a laser-cut cracked-ice texture, designed so the Crimson Omen emblem appears to sit frozen beneath a layer of ice rather than painted flat on top. Flip it over and the underside carries a Locust crest alongside hand-painted snowflake accents — a nod to the wintry Kait Diaz arc that drives Gears 5’s campaign.

Fergusson’s involvement matters here. Rather than slapping franchise logos on stock hardware, the design team built the console around Gears 5’s icy narrative beats, giving the bundle a visual identity distinct from every prior Gears-branded Xbox.

The startup chime isn’t a chime at all — it’s the sound of ice freezing, and shutting the console down cracks it apart.

Contents of the Retail Package

The unboxing video walks through a package built for collectors as much as players. Buyers get the 1TB console itself, the matching Xbox Wireless Controller – Kait Diaz Limited Edition — styled after her winter COG armor with textured grips, snow-dusted accents, and etched trigger pads — plus a color-matched vertical display stand, a high-speed HDMI cable, and the power cable.

On the software side, the bundle bundles in the full Gears catalog: Gears 5 Ultimate Edition, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, and backward-compatible versions of Gears of War 2, 3, and 4, all as digital downloads tied to the console. Anyone who’s followed Microsoft’s console reveals through outlets covering the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase knows this kind of full-franchise bundling has become the norm for the platform’s tentpole releases.

The Cosmetics and Trial Perks

Beyond hardware, the $499 price tag includes in-game extras: the Ice Kait and Ice Jack character skins, matching the console’s frozen theme, plus one-month trial memberships for both Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Live Gold. It’s a package clearly aimed at players jumping into the ecosystem cold rather than existing Gears veterans who already own the earlier entries.

For collectors tracking Xbox’s hardware history, this bundle sits alongside a broader trend of limited-run consoles tied to major exclusives, a pattern worth comparing against Microsoft’s console lineup covered under the Xbox banner.

Gears 5 launches September 6, 2019, the same day this bundle hits shelves — meaning anyone who wants Kait’s icy console and controller in hand for launch day needs to have their order locked in well before then.