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CliffyB's Cock Holster
I could justify X's increased price over S purely on the basis of the size of the internal SSD.
S is a just a bad buy. Period.
You want an Xbox, buy an X. If you want to just play Xbox games, stream it to a device of your choosing via XCloud or the inevitable stick SKU.
vaibhavpisal
Member
Wonder what will happen to Switch owners.
DarkMage619
$MSFT
Are you a defender of people who have no legitimate points? I asked a simple question about what appeared to be a disingenuous argument about ID being a MS first party when Doom Eternal was developed. You know it was disingenuous because you make those arguments all the time. There is nothing factual about ID being a MS first party when Doom Eternal was developed.
sircaw
Banned
What you really mean is you bought yourself an x and your kids got an S You CHEAP BASTARD.
JackMcGunns
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dcmk7
Banned
They were first party when they made next gen patch. All other next gen consoles has raytracing so obviously there was a technical limitation which prevented its inclusion.
Why attempt derail another thread with this, it's been done to death.
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megreotsugua
Banned
DF getting paid to advertise a product that is not selling well. News flash Microsoft, this will not help you DOA product. DF is not that influencial.
Neo_game
Member
For $300 to be able to play most of the newer games on the market smoothly is pretty damn amazing. You can't even buy a mediocre RTX3060 for $600 nowadays
Not sure why you brought 3060. It is actually comparable to SX and PS5 and outperform them in RT.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
I got an S and it's a great little machine. The look of it is very appealing. The functionality is very impressive for the price. And it's the cheapest console on the market, and perfectly compliments their new Gamepass approach.
For me, it's the perfect price point to try a MS system out. I already have PS5 and Switch and spend a lot of money on games. It's hard to really justify another $500 as being worth it when I already have a $500 console.
I can pick up this cheap system on the side and play everything they have without having to even buy any games.
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Hezekiah
Banned
Fortnite crowd / little kids.
And any adults I know who have one use it for Mario/Zelda, and use it as second machine to compliment their main one.
Concern
Member
Was going to have a stab at you but then saw this in the ariana grande fortnite thread
Please proceed to troll these threads tho lol
Helghan
Member
TheGodfather07
Member
its good for those on a budget i suppose. personally i would rather a £350/$399 xbox series x digital instead. would have been perfect. series s is useless to me because it wont make proper use of my 4ktv.
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vaibhavpisal
Member
Series s is perfect for me cause I have a 1080p screen.
DarkMage619
$MSFT
They were not a first party when the game was developed. They made the design choice to focus on 120 fps over raytracing for the XSS. I've noticed you do quite a bit of goal post moving with regards to the XSS. When an XSS game has raytracing you complain about draw distance, when it has 120 fps you complain about no raytracing. So much concern and commentary about the console that is $300 and doesn't affect you in the least. What you have not done is shown a device that offers better performance for the price or explain why you hold the budget console to a higher standard than consoles that cost more and offer less. The only derailing here is more of your disingenuous complaints. Maybe you should sell your XSS if you are unhappy with it.
dcmk7
Banned
Constantly warring... you've written those exact sentences in 50 other threads.
Can you stop derailing and arguing in this thread now.
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Captain Toad
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For its price, ok. I still don't understand why you'd buy this over a fully powered Series X at $499 or even a fully powered PS5 at $399.
tommib
Member
I don't get this. A lot of games run at 2K and they look absolutely fine on my Sony 4K TV. You're getting upscaled games from the Series X and PS5 anyway most of the times. To me, it's a non-issue and does not make a game worst or anything like that.
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Sir Vilhelm
Member
Just picked one up to complement my SX and it's a great little machine. I was not prepared for how small the machine actually is. Going to be my travel buddy.
Reallink
Member
It's a $300 4TF machine arriving 7 years after a $400 1.8TF machine, making it arguably the second worst generational leap in the industry's history (and second only by a hair). The only thing brilliant about it is how brilliantly bad it is. The various slim redesigns over the years are much more of a marvel than the SS.
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This implies TF are some sort of linear model of improvement. The CPU and SSD are huge generational leaps. Multi generational, really compared to the shit in last gen.
Chukhopops
Member
I thought teraflops were dead and didn’t matter and it was all about the SSD and I/O speed? Where did I read that…
Hezekiah
Banned
Access to GamePass if you want it is the only reason.
Hardware-for-hardware the Series S is a rip-off when compared to the PS5 Digital Edition.
Raekwon26
Member
Victim #1
or funnier that you just got triggered?
MatrixReloaded101
Member
Once the components of the Series X becomes cheaper they might just release a cheaper disc less Series X and have that replace the Series S.
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Raekwon26
Member
............ Making no sense.... a "Concern" specialty.Was going to have a stab at you but then saw this in the ariana grande fortnite thread
Please proceed to troll these threads tho lol
Reallink
Member
Yes and last gen itself was a historical outlier, shipping with CPUs that arguably might have even been a regression from PS360 (particularly the Cell). That's saying nothing of the memory of SS, a 50% improvement, the single worst generational leap in history besting even the Wii.
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Fredrik
Member
You get this, rarely does 4K, comes in 21th of september
Xbox Series X 1 TB (svart) - Elgiganten
Ta din gaming till nästa nivå med Xbox Series X spelkonsol - Xbox Velocity Architecture, 12 teraflops grafisk processorkraft och 1
De ä ba å köp! 
MatrixReloaded101
Member
It holds back what devs can do on the next gen platforms because its a weak console and they have to cater to it when designing next gen games.
Javthusiast
Banned
I better don't find out you bought a switch for 300+ or will buy a oled switch for 350.
tommib
Member
This is a false narrative. PC games are normally at the edge of graphical innovations and also need to work with much lower specs. Stop this.
Alebrije
Member
Well since series S is the only avaliable Microsoft console on a lot of countries they need to push it.
Its a good machine for last gen games but for current gen better get a PS5 digital....just talking on machine capabilities not game or subscription options
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Yeah no doubt it's a brilliant design but unfortunately to much gimping was done in the specs for $300.I think the actual article text would be more triggering.
"To be clear, my overall opinion of the console and its performance has not changed - Series S works but there's still the sense that the cutbacks to spec were a little too severe. Specifically, I still think it should have shipped with more memory and a wider interface for more bandwidth."
"It's still early days in the generation and in terms of how gaming will play out in the long term, it's still difficult to judge to what extent Series S will be able to keep up in a world where technologies like Unreal Engine 5 are already placing serious demands on Series X and PlayStation 5 hardware."
Xbox Series S teardown: inside Microsoft's smallest ever console
Sometimes experimenting with consoles in a non-warranty-friendly manner can go horribly wrong, so consider this piece a…www.eurogamer.net
It should of been priced $200 or even $250 as that would of caused major market penetration as they are in stock almost everywhere I go. This wouldn't be the case if it was stronger or cheaper.
DarkMage619
$MSFT
I disagree. For the $400 budget you get a console + games vs. just a console alone. Unless you are making a paper spec comparison and ignoring what the console is for, the XSS is clearly the better value. If price is no object a regular PS5 is a better deal so you can buy used disc games and borrow games from your friends. With the Sony monopoly on digital games the DE becomes a bigger ripoff.
Here's a video of a similarly speced PC to an XSS. It is more than twice as much despite NOT offering twice the performance advantage.
Price for performance is the best advantage of the XSS. No one can show a device that offers better performance for LESS.
twilo99
Member
Microsoft flight sim runs fine on it and all "next gen" games will do as well. Nothing to worry about. Even ratchet would run fine on it since it doesn't require 7000+MB/s SSD to run properly.
ReBurn
Gold Member
As if the Series X is actually going to get cheaper. I bet they do a refresh before they drop the price.
THE DUCK
voted poster of the decade by bots
Can't wait to quote your post when the series s drops in price at the same time or even before the x does.
THE DUCK
voted poster of the decade by bots
Errr, they may not have asked for it but many have bought it and are very happy with it for the price. And there is nothing wrong with the video.......does it threaten you somehow?
Punished Miku
Gold Member
I was literally asking for this exact type of console before it was announced.
I will never buy two $500 boxes when one of them will be used only for a handful of exclusives and 99% of their titles overlap as multiplatform. I already have a $500 PS5 and a $300 Switch. If I was ever going to get an Xbox, it had to be a cheaper supplemental purchase or I would just skip it.
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