Genuinely surprised at that price, I was pretty certain it was going to be £300 at the minimum. Hopefully this means the Series X will be £450 and the PS5 will have to match (or hopefully beat!) it.
Xbox Series S officially revealed - Releases Nov 10 for $299 [512GB NVME SSD, 1440P at up to 120FPS, DirectX Raytracing, 4K Upscaling, & More]
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That's is insane! Was expecting £299. That's Danish kroner 2.200,- for a next gen console! I might get it at launch then, for game pass, bc, and Xbox exclusives, and wait for a PS5 price drop. MS really want's this to be competitive.
1080p next-gen console as opposed to Series X which is a 4k next-gen console.
O hell yeah same idea sub £200 next gen console..1
I fully expect Sony to be:
£349 digital
£449
Very aggressive price and puts it in direct competition with the Switch as well as PS5.
Seen a lot of people saying this'll be there secondary system alongside PS5/PC, which is where Switch also sits for a lot of people, so I wonder if this has Nintendo nervous at all?
Seen a lot of people saying this'll be there secondary system alongside PS5/PC, which is where Switch also sits for a lot of people, so I wonder if this has Nintendo nervous at all?
PS5 at launch, Series S + GamePass when Halo Infinite Releases.
Great thing about gamepass is the fact that first party games don't ever leave the library.
Probably £499, since it is three times more powerful. They can absolutely justify double the price relative to the XSS.
Yes, I know. The question is who it is popular among. That's data Microsoft doesn't have access to.
Taking a quick look, it's cheaper than most new PS4 bundles, and certainly PS4 pro. Pretty much kills the old gen in my view, especially if there's a gamepass trial as standard.
Seriously though, ludicrous price that. Pushing into 'get one for the nieces and nephews' territory, their first console.
1080p doesn't look good on any of my displays, so not for me. But I'm sure it will be attractive for a lot of people who haven't upgraded yet.
Both will play the same games but the Series S targets 1080p resolution while the Series X targets 4k resolution. The Series S doesn't have a disk drive.
What's so bad about the naming scheme? Why is Series S and Series X a problem?
£249 is insane! I was sure we would get shafted here in the UK. This thing just moved up the list as a second machine for my daughters room
Roll on Series X price reveal!
Roll on Series X price reveal!
Just imagine if Stadia had lived up to the hype - it would have been next-gen gaming at 1080p for free, 4k for $10/month. And Chromecast Ultra is even more pocketable!
if the rumours are true. Weaker and smaller GPU, less RAM and no disc drive. This will already reduce cost.
No it won't. Not enough memory to run BC XBX games. And it's confirmed in the github leak. There is only BC with base XB1.
GBP price is never $= £
The numerical value is always £50 less than the $ value, up until it's a large number like $1500, at which point it becomes £100 less.
It's basically the $ price with 20% VAT, and then they round it off, so that's the easiest way to do it.
249 pounds is like ~327 dollars, so it's still cheapest in the US (unsurprisingly).
It's popular among people who buy video games. Just...i don't know if it makes sense to predict people will jump ship because a certain skew doesn't play their discs...when they don't have physical or digital on the other platform.
That's VERY competitive for over here. The One S All Digital sold pretty well here when it went on deep sales, and this of course is an order of magnitude a better offering, so interested to see how people take to it over here. With the UK physical market at times being dire as hell, this could really do bits over here depending on where Sony comes in.
Good stuff Xbox UK. £449 for Series X then?
Good stuff Xbox UK. £449 for Series X then?
Ugh, can you spoiler this gif so people don't have to see such vulgar content so early in the morning?
Cheap enough that i'd definitely consider picking one up for exclusives/game pass somewhere down the line, although I have a 4K tv so it'll be a shame not to utilise that.
I'd probably still target getting a PS5 first but I don't think I'll get one of those until there's a hardware revision in a couple of years.
I'd probably still target getting a PS5 first but I don't think I'll get one of those until there's a hardware revision in a couple of years.
MS have been soooo savvy with their marketing for the next gen and I think they've really put the cat amongst the pigeons here. Remembering back to the 1st big Series X reveal DF said they were ultra clear about their SUSTAINED clocks and it turns out they obvs knew Sony were going SmartShift and variable TF. I reckon they knew Sony were going to come out with a 549 or 599 price in the coming days and have dropped this like a bomb. Well played.
He's the one that said the CPU was slower
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Oh my bad, I forgot about the ram. If the Xbox Series S really has 10 GB of memory and 2.5 GB of it is reserved then they've reduced the system reserved memory for the Xbox Series machines by about 500 MB compared to the last generation machines which had 3 GB reserved.
Perhaps another 1.5 GB could be relieved by compressing the system memory, although they may already be doing it.
Alternatively perhaps the software could make use of virtual memory and page to the SSD for background applications.
Being able to run Xbox One X enhanced games would be a great selling point. Otherwise, existing games will have to be patched to take advantage of the Xbox Series S hardware to run Xbox One games at higher resolutions, unless they rely on dynamic resolution scaling.
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No chance after VAT imo but £450 definitely looks on the table now. Fingers crossed!
