Dell To Drop XPS Gaming PC Range – Alienware Assumes Responsibility For All Future Performance Gaming Rigs

It was only back on May 1st that we reported that Dell had updated its XPS 730 premier gaming towers but now, only twelve days after Dell touted their new, updated XPS 730 performance gaming PCs as offering ‘a truly kick-ass gaming experience’ it seems that their days are numbered as, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Dell is purportedly set to drop its entire XPS gaming PC range.

Whilst it will be interesting to see quite how those that have just splashed out considerable cash for a new XPS gaming system will be catered for once the line is dropped, Dell’s move will not mean the death of all XPS systems as only the performance gaming rigs will cease to be – Dells popular XPS notebooks, for example, are to the spared the axe.

In truth, however, whilst owners of new the brand new, updated XPS 730 gaming systems in particular may well feel a little – and somewhat understandably – aggrieved if the WSJ’s report is to be believed (and there’s no reason as to why it shouldn’t) then some sollice can be taken in the fact that this will not mark the end of Dell’s relationship with PC gamers as Alienware, who were picked up by Dell a couple of years ago, will consequently be responsible for producing all gaming platforms. And, as anyone who has ever had an experience of an Alienware rig will tell you, that’s no bad thing – though the fact that Dell and Alienware, as a result, will be tied together all the more may not be quite as warmly welcomed by the hardcore elite of Alienware fanboys.

UPDATE: Dell have refuted the WSJ’s claims – see Dell Refutes WSJ Report Concerning XPS Gaming Systems Facing the Axe [XPS Gaming Rigs Live on, For Now].