Not yet. Officially, the Series S doesn't exist lol. This controller leak is the first big confirmation.
Apparently the One X didn't have any profit when it was sold at $500:
Microsoft Not Making Any Money on $500 Xbox One X
Phil Spencer confirms that the $500 price tag of the Xbox One X includes no profit margin. What he wouldn't confirm is if the console will be sold at a loss.www.pcmag.com
I think the most tenuous assumption I made is actually on the memory bandwidth. The One X had 12GB of GDDR5 while the One S had 8GB of GDDR3. The XSX and XSS are much more similar with both rumored to use GDDR6 and the capacities being 16GB vs 10GB respectively.
The people who get midrange phones, laptops, and TVs. I think most consumers have gotten used to the idea that the most expensive model of anything is always targeted at the enthusiasts while normal people can't tell the difference. Midrange devices are always the volume-sellers in most markets.
Nope. All we have are rumors that the GPU with be 4 TF and have less RAM.
This is somewhat alleviated by the backwards compatibility of these XBOX consoles.
Its not officially a thing yet.
2 SKUs which plays the games differently. That's the difference here ....
It's likely most games will look better on XSX, even on a 1080p set. The difference won't be staggering though. You'll need a 4k display to take full advantage of that 4k native res.
It'll play the same games, on the same network, with similar performance. One will be display 1080p images. One will display 4k images. Many players will save 200 bucks (or whatever the price difference is) as 1080p is "good enough" for most people.
Why not? It's not really a next gen controller. Gives MS a chance to place their new controller out their earlier where people can pick it up and use it as their main controller for PC/Xcloud, etc.
Same CPU in both. It's going to be a 1080 machine that delivers similar results as the XSX, per what we know from leaked info.
at 299 they were bleeding money on that thing though. They didn't want to sell it that cheap but the boxes weren't moving. They were losing money at full price on those.
It should have been "Xbox Series X| S" then, but it's quite ugly.
Ok I understand your point now. I dunno. We'll have to see what happens with regard to Halo. I wouldn't be surprised if XSS has more effects than X1X, even if X1X pushes more pixels. Also I'm pretty sure X1X will be locked at 60 fps for MP, whereas XSS will probably run the MP at 1080p120. But we'll see.
I think people kind of expect that the new 299$ console won't run games much better than the not-so-old 499$ console.
