Poll: *** Xbox Series X|S - General Discussion Thread ***

Which will you buy?

  • Series X

    Votes: 534 59.5%

  • Series S

    Votes: 105 11.7%

  • Not interested

    Votes: 234 26.1%

  • Both

    Votes: 25 2.8%
  • Total voters
    898
BEN_UK said:
Looks like the game DVR on series X has not been improve from the Xbox One.

Xbox game DVR compared to the PlayStation is total garage.

Was really hoping for an update to improve it. Fingers crossed there working on it.
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I don't have an Xbox One but I thought it was supposed to be even better than the PS4? If you plug in an external HDD, you can record two hours of 4K footage in a single file, can't you?
 
Kreeeee said:
Thanks for the info on the external drive, although I was more thinking along the lines of a Series to M.2 adapter being possible at some point.
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I would love that. And I'm pretty sure that could be what MS is alluding to when they talked about the external SSD being made available by other manufacturers in various form factors.
 
Any MS Rewards users here - what happens when you redeem points for Xbox Live, for example? Are you sent a code via email or does it automatically get applied to your account?
 
Flippin' heck. If I was to ditch my PC at some point and rebuy just a portion of my Steam library on Xbox (basically some of the games missing from Game Pass), it would cost me £1339.60 right now with the Xbox store digital pricing. Gulp. And this is games from the Xbox 360 generation!
 
What happens if you've got a Series S and a Series X and you install a game on to the little Seagate cart so you can play the game on both consoles. Does it keep re-downloading each version every time you swap consoles? :p
 
Disappointed to read the controller is a bit naff. Just got to hope that more games on PC start supporting the DualSense if that’s to become the winner this time around. Or do MS want everyone purchasing the Elite? :p
 
Reckon I’ve finally decided on my choices now. Going to use PS5 as main platform and a Series S to complement it for Game Pass and MS exclusives. At least we know NS will take the time and effort to optimise their games for the baby one.
 
HeX said:
Have to say, I'm not happy with whoever is enforcing that some of these X|S enhanced games have to be installed on the internal fast SSD when they clearly don't need to be.
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It would create a complete mess of confusion if they allowed some "optimized" games to run from external storage and not others. So they adopted a blanket approach that anything with the X|S logo has to be on the SSD. I think it's fair enough.
 
Puzzled said:
To be fair they did say that the Series S would run One S versions of games. However having never owned a one s I didnt realise how much worse they look and would be interested to know if the reason it doesnt run one x enhancements aside from 4k is down to a hardware limitation or they are simply keeping it a top tier feature. I doubt it's purely hardware as this console needs to handle next gen games at 1080p let alone last gen.

Maybe a plagues tale is just a bad example so I'll try some more games before deciding what I'm going to do with it.
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It's probably all about the RAM. The Series S has less usable RAM than the Xbone X did for a start. And the memory bandwidth is probably less as well. It is a bit of a trade-off, I'm not sure whether I would find it really off putting or what at this stage. The Series S should easily sort out the framerate problems from the Xbone though, it's just everything will be 720p-1080p.

You have to adopt the mindset that the Series S is a cheap way to get into next-gen with Game Pass and not start fretting about what you're missing out on by not having an X. I'm lucky that I still have my PC (and hopefully a PS5) if some XSS version of a game turns out to be atrocious.
 
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