£449 for the Series X. Was hoping it and the PS5 would be under £400 but I guess not.
£449 for the Series X. Was hoping it and the PS5 would be under £400 but I guess not.
Been searching around and I've been unsuccessful finding an Xbox One X vs Series S comparison aside from me bringing up the specs myself. I imagine trading in the One X for the Series S would be nearly a wash at the Gamestop. Curious what the community thinks and whether nor not the swap to the new hardware is worth it?
I have an SSD on the One X so load times aren't an issue for me at all.
Series S has Ray tracing. The One X does not.
Series S will actually provide you benefits for existing games (adding HDR and upscaling older games, higher frame rate etc...).
Series S also supports quick resume which will allow swapping between multiple games at a time.
The only negative to the Series S would be the lack of disk drive.
I don't usually buy a console until midway through a generation as there aren't usually multiple compelling games at launch this generation included.
YMMV.
Last edited by kaelleria; 2020-09-10 at 04:38 PM.
You can... but next gen games cannot be played off an external SSD. It needs to be the internal storage or a velocity storage thing.
Edit: Another thing to note, Native 4k isn't supported on the Series S. They'll use an upscaling solution with a flavor of machine learning to play games on a 4k display.
Worst part about the discless consoles is the discless thing. The console vendor gets 100% exclusive access to sell you stuff for the system. No discounted / used / shared games possible, and for us it's a non-strter because our local library gets all the new games that come out so we can just borrow them for free as long as we still have a slot to stuff them in.
As far as cost goes, the Microsoft All Access plan at $35/month for two years to get an XBOX Series X plus Game Pass Ultimate WITH NO INTEREST seems like a no-brainer, especially if you're already paying $14/month for Game Pass Ultimate...
Last edited by PixelFox; 2020-09-10 at 05:01 PM.
I imagine if I get the Series S it will be exclusively for Game Pass and maybe the occasional sale.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/it...CAD-01-10abi2f
So now this generation is just "Xbox".A Microsoft spokesperson stated this plainly to Business Insider in December, shortly after the Xbox Series X name was revealed at The Game Awards: "The name we're carrying forward to the next generation is simply Xbox. And at The Game Awards you saw that name come to life through the Xbox Series X. Similar to what fans have seen with previous generations, the name 'Xbox Series X' allows room for additional consoles in the future."
But not this one, a different one.
Seriously, Microsoft's approach to branding is back asswards.
The guy that makes those decisions got dared to make a worse name and message then the Wii U. Series X is not so so bad since they discontinued the One X, but they are literally going to be selling "Xbox One S" and "Xbox Series S" at the exact same time do they think normies will have any fucking clue what the difference is? They really aren't doing a good job of making it clear the Series S is a sub 4k option for next gen to those people, and as a result that mode may very well be DoA.
Last edited by Tech614; 2020-09-10 at 09:42 PM.
If they want to reuse xbox, maybe they should get some good exclusives again xd
https://www.gamespew.com/2020/09/xbo...soft-confirms/
This should of been obvious, but no with less memory and a weaker GPU it can not run XOX enhancements in BC mode.
I'm not so sure that gpu is actually weaker.
the RX 5700 XT alone shows that the TF measurement on that card skews performance compared to Polaris and even to the Vega GPUs.
The XBX one X may have more CUs but the Navi chip is loads better.
The comparable GPU in the navi line up that exists on desktop right now is the AMD 5500 XT if you want to use CU to CU count.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FksJ...el=GameGangsta
This shows the Equivalent gpu with Navi being better and we are seeing a newer generation of GPU inside the series S.
The hardware is there compared to the XBX one X.
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Thats not confirming the hardware in the series S is inferior, I literally linked you a benchmark of comparable hardware that exists that should in theory show the Series S actually using a more powerful GPU.
Navi is more powerful then Polaris GPU used in the XBXone X.
The link you provided is strange because in another line, it adds;
“Xbox Series S was designed to be the most affordable next generation console and play next generation games at 1440P at 60fps. To deliver the highest quality backwards compatible experience consistent with the developer’s original intent, the Xbox Series S runs the Xbox One S version of backward compatible games while applying improved texture filtering, higher and more consistent frame rates, faster load times and Auto HDR.”
Its enhanced in other areas it seems.
The only thing you're not getting on the Series S is 4k in BC games.
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Be aware thought that you can't RUN games from external USB drives on the Series machines. You can only use it as local backup storage.
If you want to expand your usable storage for games in your rotation you have to use those NVMe cards MS is releasing for Series S/X
Guy asked if it would run Xbox One X enhancements, you replied saying it's possible yet it isn't because it's not happening.
Anything else is a massive goal post shift. It can't play games at Xbox One X settings, that is the reality here. It has it's advantages over the One X, but the GPU is just not made to play games above 1440p and most One X games run above that, a lot even reaching native 4k.