The only game I'm probably going to buy for the rest of the year is cyberpunk, should I just keep my 1x then instead of selling it for a series s ?
Xbox One X modes for games tend to have other visual enhancements that will now need to be specifically patched into the Series S (which most wont do) is what you're missing."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."
So the only thing you are not going to get on the Series S is the 4K enhancement.
Or am I missing something?
Guess I need to get the Series X if I want to play Red Dead 1 with the One X enhancements
You are a consumer that cares about performance. This is a budget model. They have a performance model.I don't know...
1. Am I an existing Xbox customer? Yes.
2. Do I have money? Yes.
3. Have I been financially harmed by the pandemic? Yes.
4. Was the cheaper SKU of the Series S attractive given all the other circumstances? Yes.
5. Do I want to play new Xbox games with 120FPS and ray tracing? Yes.
Based on all that, I kind of feel like I might have been a target demographic...
Bro reading all these comments is just making me more confused. So games will be bumped up to 1440p then and not run at the One S resolution??
That was a good trade up deal actually.wont be bad if GameStop has a great trade in deal again. THey gave me $300 for a launch Xbox One toward the Xb1x. And at the time a launch XB1 was worth maybe $125 on ebay. The XB1X is still holding some value on ebay right now. So we'll see
"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."
So the only thing you are not going to get on the Series S is the 4K enhancement.
Or am I missing something?
Series S is the 1440p game pass console. I can't see why the outage here.
No it will run those games at lower settings.Someone give it to me straight because I've seen a lot of fearmongering.
Is this a console that will potentially hold back graphics or processing powering for third party games/xbox exclusives for the next gen? Or is the difference not that big and they can simply have lighter graphics options for the Series S?
Well - from what I can gather - some 1X games will have specific versions tailored to that system, which Series S won't have (But SX will have)."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."
So the only thing you are not going to get on the Series S is the 4K enhancement.
Or am I missing something?
No it's not, literally. All the MARKETING is build around the 4K, and that's the actual smallest part of the Xbox One X, I would know, I'm using one since release and for 2 1/2 years only on a 1080p TV.
The Xbox One X and S in comparison are actually more like a cheaper PC and a high price PC, nobody f'n EVER would say here "Weeeeeellll, on the expensive one, you can play in higher res now, that's it". Nobody. Ever. Everyone would immediately understand how many hundreds of improvements you have on a newer and better system besides res.
Only on f'n console people don't get it and are sticking to the dumb fuck marketing horseshit of "Four Kay".
Xbox One X patches were build around specific graphic modes with better textures, better shadows, better draw distance, better effects, brand new effects, less pop-in, better and more outside stuff like grass, bushes, trees, clearer image, yes res too and the game changer called super sampling if you don't have 4K, but again, that's just one thing out of many features. More stable fps and extra specific high fps modes with 60fps which you only had on the X and you WON'T have on the Series S because it was part of Xbox One X compatibility.
People thinking higher res is all that Xbox One X was and Xbox Series X is about will never not confuse me. How can you be so disconnected to your own hobby to still have this wrong mindset about something that's so f'n clear if you just read more than 3 threads here or ever saw any DF video. I just don't get it.
They call that the 4k enhancement tho. So thats why i said correct. I know its more then just res.No. Not correct.
One X enhancements often go beyond higher resolution. More often than not infact. You will not see any of *those* enhancements on the XSS. You will see *other* enhancements (like autohdr) but you aren't going to load Rise of the Tomb Raider and see the mode that enhances a lot of the graphical effects or the mode that targets higher performance. You won't see any optional modes. It'll be the X1S version of the game with better texture filtering, quicker loading, less framerate / resolution drops (if the game drops), and auto HDR.
I think some people might have assumed since the Series S is more powerful than an X1X, it'll run and display games equal to or better than the X1X. It's targeting 1440p for next-gen games but older XB1 games that run at 4K on the X1X could do the same on the Series S given its hardware, but I imagine the RAM is probably the likely culprit there.
Xbox One X isn't sold out everywhere.
You're disappointed about not getting enhancements but am willing to spend close to what the next gen series S would cost to get a current gen One S for little to no benefit at all to games and no future hardware wise.
You are a consumer that cares about performance. This is a budget model. They have a performance model.
Every day I'm understanding less and less who the S is for. For people who want to save money? It seems like they're better off waiting for a price drop for the X and just getting a nearly similar experience on their current One with most of the same games being cross-gen anyway.
This is entirely false. You will not get close to a similar experience on your current One. The only games you will, are current gen games with One X enhancements that are designed specifically for the One X. Every other game will run better on the Series S than the One X, especially cross gen/next gen games.Every day I'm understanding less and less who the S is for. For people who want to save money? It seems like they're better off waiting for a price drop for the X and just getting a nearly similar experience on their current One with most of the same games being cross-gen anyway.
You get some enhancements to current gen games, low-entry point to next-gen, GamePass + EA Play, and digital BC for 299.
I mean..
Well, yes... The debate here is over the One X features, which it can't access. My point is that it's not just the resolution, some other One X stuff is getting left behind as well, even running at 1080p, because it's strictly limited to the original One S profile.Well hey now, you've wandered into things that are up to the devs/pubs - not Xbox/Microsoft.
Hey I'll sell you my One X for $250That sucks. I wanted a Series S almost exclusively for backwards compat. I might as well just get a one S then. What makes it worse is that the 1X is discontinued so I can't even get that either.
But the performance modes often run at 1080p. People keep making this mistake thinking they're only missing out on 4K when they aren't. I'm just trying to be as clear as possible to stop the confusion.They call that the 4k enhancement tho. So thats why i said correct. I know its more then just res.
Only because then new box is going to perform worse than the existing old box I have, purchased at a time when money wasn't an object...
Kind of expected tbh, but it's nice to see Era so passionate about BC now.
Perform worse in SOME instances. It'll run cross gen games better. It'll run next gen games, it'll run non One X enhanced games better as well.Only because then new box is going to perform worse than the existing old box I have, purchased at a time when money wasn't an object...
A free trial, yes, I think that for a long time every XBOX sold offers that.Wait, the $299 Xbox Series S comes with free GamePass and EA Play?!
Every day I'm understanding less and less who the S is for. For people who want to save money? It seems like they're better off waiting for a price drop for the X and just getting a nearly similar experience on their current One with most of the same games being cross-gen anyway.
Honestly at this point it wouldn't surprise me.Wait, the $299 Xbox Series S comes with free GamePass and EA Play?!
Most games use a dynamic resolution nowadays so on those games it will automatically take advantage of the newer gpu to max out the resolution
The X1S sold more than the X1X. I think, and hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong, that last year, Microsoft sold far more X1S consoles than X1X consoles, so it's for all the people that don't want to spend $500 on a console.Every day I'm understanding less and less who the S is for. For people who want to save money? It seems like they're better off waiting for a price drop for the X and just getting a nearly similar experience on their current One with most of the same games being cross-gen anyway.
It even gets patches for certain xbox one games with doubling framerate also.Perform worse in SOME instances. It'll run cross gen games better. It'll run next gen games, it'll run non One X enhanced games better as well.
People don't get that no 4K means no 4K
they also don't understand a One X will never have a game running at 120fps
Marketing also calls it a next gen console.The console built for 1080p and 1440 p can not play games in 4k ..... exactly as it is aimed at in their marketing.
A next-gen console to play gamepass first-party titles in. On medium settings. In GamePass.
Not quite. It's running those versions of the game but it will run it better. More steady frame rate, dynamic resolution will probably be locked instead as well for the most part without drops in those games. And auto HDR can happen do to some machine learning.That's a crazy outcome. So it's XB1 S levels of resolution and performance?
Did you read? Performance is better and it has better texture filtering. It doesn't do the X enhancements simply because it doesn't have the RAM for it.That's a crazy outcome. So it's XB1 S levels of resolution and performance?
Perform worse in SOME instances. It'll run cross gen games better. It'll run next gen games, it'll run non One X enhanced games better as well.
yes. after digital foundry speculated this its still disappointing. many one S games fun at 900p or lowerBummer ... that means backwards compatibility on the Series S is capped at 1080p (if not lower, depending on the game)
That's a crazy outcome. So it's XB1 S levels of resolution and performance?
That's a crazy outcome. So it's XB1 S levels of resolution and performance?