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

Which will you buy?

  • Series X

    Votes: 536 59.4%

  • Series S

    Votes: 107 11.8%

  • Not interested

    Votes: 235 26.0%

  • Both

    Votes: 25 2.8%
  • Total voters
    903
Kreeeee said:
You know that people play different games, right?

Halo 5 and CoD together take up over 220 GB so if you have friends and like to play more than one game for multiplayer then that eats up a lot of your storage.

That leaves you with enough space for 1-2 single player AAA games at 60-80 GB each. I don’t think wanting more than 3 of your favourite games installed is asking for too much.

And this is only factoring previous generation games with low resolution assets, it’s going to be worse as current generation games become the norm.
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The future isnt just increasing storage to infinite levels, at some point dev's have to treat resource as finite. I would expect if you look at the data for those games, there is unoptimised textured, duplicate assets etc. It was discovered e.g. 60% of ff7 remake is unused textures.

The answer to the conundrum that you just raised is those people would have to buy an X if they want to be able to keep super beat games all on internal storage at same time, an S isnt going to be suitable for everyone, but on the flipside there is many gamers who dont play the games you mentioned or games even similar to them. The answer isnt to have a more expensive console with more internal storage, it defeats the benefit of it in the first place, affordability. Cheaper with optional expansion is always superior to expensive compulsory expansion.
 
chrcoluk said:
The answer isnt to have a more expensive console with more internal storage, it defeats the benefit of it in the first place, affordability. Cheaper with optional expansion is always superior to expensive compulsory expansion.
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You are aware that I don’t disagree with this, right?

That doesn’t stop the very limited storage space from being something people should factor in alongside the other drawbacks when considering whether an S is suitable for them.

chrcoluk said:
Luckily I dont play their games. :) Hate them as a publisher, they probably my most hated.
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We’re not talking about you though. I have no idea what games the person asking about the S that I replied to plays, but if he does play those big games then he should be aware of the potential issues the limited storage causes.
 
A friend of mine seems to collect the games he's played or that you get given for free, whilst also trying quite a lot of the gamepass titles. Has somehow filled his 1TB internal (One S) and 2TB external. :D

There must be ways to optimise a number of games better than they already are though. Games like The Witcher 3 look epic on my SX, but is probably only taking about 60% of the space that Warzone alone would require. You could quite easily fit the map of the latter into the former many times over, nevermind stuff like all of the dialogues, items, beasts, etc.
 
Anyone tried mouse and keyboard and how good is it? Whilst still playing on my Xbox one. FPS has been played exclusively on PC. Played RB6 with my daughter the other day and my aim was just terrible. Last console FPS was BF3 and original black ops.
 
I’ve been meaning to try M&K as well, got a cheaply Logitech wireless MK330 pair from work for home so was going to test it out.

I’m pretty much the same as you, tried the first GOW last night as thought I might as well work through the full story from the start as don’t think they are that long, and I was atrocious for controller aim!
 
Arctis 7x ordered £140 with voucher I found online.

Let's see how they compare to my 2 year old Turtle Beach recon 50x that cost me £30
 
I’m an old school gamer keyboard & mouse but really want to get to grips (on the Xbox) of the controller, my aim is terrible, I’ve ordered the elite v2 really hoping I can get to grips with the controller as sitting on the sofa has got to be better on the controller than Keyboard and mouse?
 
iMacMart said:
I’m an old school gamer keyboard & mouse but really want to get to grips (on the Xbox) of the controller, my aim is terrible, I’ve ordered the elite v2 really hoping I can get to grips with the controller as sitting on the sofa has got to be better on the controller than Keyboard and mouse?
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Thats what I thought.. I enjoyed Doom 2016 on my PC with Keyboard and Mouse, tried Doom Eternal on the Xbox Series X and found it unbearably clunky. I just cannot move quickly enough and if I increase sensitivity to improve turn speed, then I can't position the cursor for aiming. I couldn't get more than 20 minutes into the game.
 
LiE said:
Any tips for buying a Series X? they are as rare as hens teeth.
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@PA_Console on Twitter.

There's also a thread on HUKD that tends to get updated pretty quickly when stock appears. And there's a thread on stock tracking tools for PS5 on there too. I'm sure some of those tools would work for Xbox as well.
 
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