The Xbox Series S has finally been officially confirmed, with price set at $299

pickinanameainteasy · Sep 9, 2020

The Frenchman said:
Once again Microsoft prove that Xbox Series X is a second thought for them. They only want everyone to be on gamepass, pushing the industry and the ganes? Nah give us $12,99 a month we'll be happy!

A bit out of the loop, what is 12.99/mo? Honestly as a PS user, xbox series + game pass seems like a good deal. PS better come hard with exclusives if they want my $$

Foxi4 · Sep 9, 2020

Goku1992A said:
The Xbox One S digital edition didn't sell too good so Idk why they would think the Series-S digital edition would be even better

Because this time around there is no disc alternative in the lower end tier, only the far more expensive Series X has a disc drive. It's a pretty aggressive move, but given the choice between a last gen Xbox One S and the next gen Series S I can see a lot of customers picking performance over convenience when the price point is identical.

sarkwalvein · Sep 9, 2020

ForgotWhoIam said:
Will my laptop hold up against next gen (without ray tracing which may become a requirement eventually) or not even close? I don't care about maxing out the resolution that much I'm someone who can play games in 1080p and I'd be fine. I'm sure this digital only model even is more powerful.

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9300H CPU @ 2.40GHz, (can go up to 4.1GHz), 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
Nvidia GTEForce GTX 1650 16 GB Ram

I think it will hold up there as long as you keep it at 1080p don't try to max settings.
Also it seems "next gen" is also pretty much about being able to stream data at very high speed, you have an SSD there?

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sarkwalvein said:
I think it will hold up there as long as you keep it at 1080p don't try to max settings.
Also it seems "next gen" is also pretty much about being able to stream data at very high speed, you have an SSD there?

Thanks for the info, on the SSD part not really. There's only a 256 gb SSD and a 1 TB regular HDD, and I also use external hard drives. Since games will be over 100 GB the SSD won't go far.

guisadop · Sep 10, 2020

D34DL1N3R said:
Except cheap is not king. Xbox has not won a console generation to date.

True, but was xbox ever cheaper than PS? except for the 7th gen when it did better than the PS3 most of the time, I think OG was more expensive than PS2 and One is same price as the PS4.
About the series S though, just found out it doesn't have a disc drive... so, it's a no-no for me. can't live without my physical media

Goku1992A · Sep 10, 2020

Foxi4 said:
Because this time around there is no disc alternative in the lower end tier, only the far more expensive Series X has a disc drive. It's a pretty aggressive move, but given the choice between a last gen Xbox One S and the next gen Series S I can see a lot of customers picking performance over convenience when the price point is identical.

I understand but we are not there yet for a all digital console. I personally have game pass and EA play but for BC you still need the disks and etc. Xbox One S digital only was $249 and the S model was $300 and the digital version didn't sell too good but the S did.

IMO get a Series-X or dont buy a Xbox at all

Foxi4 · Sep 10, 2020

Goku1992A said:
I understand but we are not there yet for a all digital console. I personally have game pass and EA play but for BC you still need the disks and etc. Xbox One S digital only was $249 and the S model was $300 and the digital version didn't sell too good but the S did.

IMO get a Series-X or dont buy a Xbox at all

Around here the S was £249 and the All-Digital was £199, that's a 50 quid difference, which is no biggy. The Series S is £249 while the Series X is *£449*, that's *200* quid, I suspect a lot of people will think twice about paying a premium like that, even with all the other benefits in mind.

Julie_Pilgrim · Sep 10, 2020

BaamAlex said:
The most important question here is...can it run minecraft as smooth as possible?

Bedrock edition? Yes. Java edition? Fuck no you need 3tb of ram to run it

Legendaykai · Sep 11, 2020

The only thing the Xbone has over the competition is amazing online. otherthan that it's just a fps machine with Gaylo(halo) and other crappy shooter games for the obese "gamers" but theconsole looks just dumb, and they still dont giveit a better nameit's not afucking iphone.

Joom · Sep 11, 2020

Well, id devs aren't happy about this. Might help people's buying decision a bit as I get the feeling more developers are going to share the same opinion.
https://wccftech.com/id-software-devs-concerns-xbox-series-s-specs/

Everyone ready for X only exclusives?

sarkwalvein · Sep 11, 2020

Joom said:
Well, id devs aren't happy about this. Might help people's buying decision a bit as I get the feeling more developers are going to share the same opinion.
https://wccftech.com/id-software-devs-concerns-xbox-series-s-specs/

Everyone ready for X only exclusives?

X exclusives, or do you actually mean S severely degraded games.
I guess the "hard to compensate" part will lead to shitty performance and textures, not an "impossible to run/do" situation.

In other words: up to 120FPS my ass, pray for 30.

Joom · Sep 11, 2020

sarkwalvein said:
X exclusives, or do you actually mean S severely degraded games.
I guess the "hard to compensate" part will lead to shitty performance and textures, not an "impossible to run/do" situation.

In other words: up to 120FPS my ass, pray for 30.

I was thinking more in line of how the 3DS has exclusives that require newer hardware to even be ran. I can totally see this happening, if only to push console sales and to further justify the $70 price tag that's gonna start being tacked on. You could be right, though. The games might scale to meet the hardware, but according to id, the hardware nerf is going to be hard to compensate for.

Jarmenti · Sep 12, 2020

sarkwalvein said:
X exclusives, or do you actually mean S severely degraded games.
I guess the "hard to compensate" part will lead to shitty performance and textures, not an "impossible to run/do" situation.

In other words: up to 120FPS my ass, pray for 30.

If the S only needs to run games at 1080, or 1440 tops... they won't be severely degraded. I'm willing to bet on anyone with a >50 inch tv you'll barely even notice much of a difference between the X or S when sitting at typical livingroom distances from the tv. 4k takes essentially 4x the computational power to render vs 1080, and considering the series S is around 1/3 the GPU power, and like 95% of the cpu, it isn't unreasonable to believe it will have no issue running games at 1080p 60/120 or 1440p 60. Raw resolution isn't the be all end all of graphic fidelity either!!

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