Xbox Series X / S

Been vacillating on Callisto Protocol purchase, but after reviews and play time length, will wait for a price drop. Looks great, but not justifiable at current full price for me.

as for Gamepass......it has no chill...... gives zero ****s about our backlog of games to get to.
 
Kaapie said:
Been vacillating on Callisto Protocol purchase, but after reviews and play time length, will wait for a price drop. Looks great, but not justifiable at current full price for me.

as for Gamepass......it has no chill...... gives zero ****s about our backlog of games to get to.
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Leaning towards the same. R1200 for 8 hours isn’t feasible. Especially since I have more games on my backlog
 
Kaapie said:
Been vacillating on Callisto Protocol purchase, but after reviews and play time length, will wait for a price drop. Looks great, but not justifiable at current full price for me.

as for Gamepass......it has no chill...... gives zero ****s about our backlog of games to get to.
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Being review bombed big time:

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Kaapie said:
Why though? Thought review bombs are generally by salty folks for platform exclusives they don't own.
Game is multi plat, and damn pretty.
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It's probably valid in this case. It's way too short for the price. Along with performance issues on PC, DRM etc.
 
Kaapie said:
Why though? Thought review bombs are generally by salty folks for platform exclusives they don't own.
Game is multi plat, and damn pretty.
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Why? Pretty doesn't equal working or quality. It reminds me of the people who buys a car, because it's pretty vs the people that buys because practical and reliable.
 
I see Monster Hunter Rise is coming to Game Pass next month. Anyone played it? Any good?
 
Hi Everyone,

So I'm thinking of finally upgrading to the next-gen (well, current-gen I suppose) Xbox and would like some opinions on which one to choose.

I'm a casual gamer but enjoy having good graphics and visuals on my games. I currently have an Xbox One S running on a 4K Hisense 58".

Is it worth it to get the Series X or will the Series S be sufficient for my needs? How future-proof is the Series S? At R5000 price difference, surely the performance must be around half that of the X.

I don't mind the SSD space as I can always hook up an external SSD and I have a pretty fast Fibre line so deleting games and re-downloading isn't an issue for me.

Your thoughts are appreciated. :)
 
Heksmeester said:
Hi Everyone,

So I'm thinking of finally upgrading to the next-gen (well, current-gen I suppose) Xbox and would like some opinions on which one to choose.

I'm a casual gamer but enjoy having good graphics and visuals on my games. I currently have an Xbox One S running on a 4K Hisense 58".

Is it worth it to get the Series X or will the Series S be sufficient for my needs? How future-proof is the Series S? At R5000 price difference, surely the performance must be around half that of the X.

I don't mind the SSD space as I can always hook up an external SSD and I have a pretty fast Fibre line so deleting games and re-downloading isn't an issue for me.

Your thoughts are appreciated. :)
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Happily running a Series S. Your TV will upscale the 1080 image to 4k and unless you are going to buy a new Tv you probably don’t have one with 120hz and VRR etc. just get the S and upgrade if you upgrade your TV.
 
Get the series X if you can afford it.

The S is definitely not “future proof”

The X can happily work on a 60hz TV, nothing wrong 1440p-4K dynamic resolution with locked 60fps
 
Sarg3_ZN said:
Games will run fine on both, they have the same CPU, just the X runs at 3.8 Ghz and the S runs at 3.6 Ghz.
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Sure but the gpus aren't the same, the amount of RAM isn't either, so they would need to start doing things like a PC
 
Lupus said:
Sure but the gpus aren't the same, the amount of RAM isn't either, so they would need to start doing things like a PC
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As mentioned by DF the net benefit is it forces developers to actually optimise their stuff properly. The same as for PC.

Callisto Protocol funny enough runs fine on the Xbox Series S but at 1080p vs 1440p/4k on the X. Still looks good albeit not as detailed while PC release is in shambles because they got the game to run but didn’t optimise until after release.
 
Heksmeester said:
Hi Everyone,

So I'm thinking of finally upgrading to the next-gen (well, current-gen I suppose) Xbox and would like some opinions on which one to choose.

I'm a casual gamer but enjoy having good graphics and visuals on my games. I currently have an Xbox One S running on a 4K Hisense 58".

Is it worth it to get the Series X or will the Series S be sufficient for my needs? How future-proof is the Series S? At R5000 price difference, surely the performance must be around half that of the X.

I don't mind the SSD space as I can always hook up an external SSD and I have a pretty fast Fibre line so deleting games and re-downloading isn't an issue for me.

Your thoughts are appreciated. :)
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Do you have a lot of existing Xbox One games on disc ? Also something to consider because only the Series X has a disc drive.
 
Heksmeester said:
Hi Everyone,

So I'm thinking of finally upgrading to the next-gen (well, current-gen I suppose) Xbox and would like some opinions on which one to choose.

I'm a casual gamer but enjoy having good graphics and visuals on my games. I currently have an Xbox One S running on a 4K Hisense 58".

Is it worth it to get the Series X or will the Series S be sufficient for my needs? How future-proof is the Series S? At R5000 price difference, surely the performance must be around half that of the X.

I don't mind the SSD space as I can always hook up an external SSD and I have a pretty fast Fibre line so deleting games and re-downloading isn't an issue for me.

Your thoughts are appreciated. :)
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I have both SS & SX
Series S on 43" 1080P TV in Bedroom
Series X on 58" 4K TV in the lounge. (Next to PS5)

I can honestly say, get a Series X esp if you have a 4K TV. Not that there is anything wrong with the SS I mean I it has a dedicated compute unit for upscaling to 4k. Just that most SS games are stuck in last gens' 30FPS, also it really sucks that the SS uses OneS as base for last gen, so you also don't get access to the enhanced One X games from last gen.

What also bugs me is that most 3rd part dev's don't bother to fine tune games for it. Sure they release them as per Microsoft's req and will continue to do so as long as X is around, just that they don't tweak them to get best bang for buck. 90% just turn of ray tracing, drop game to 30FPS @ 900p-1080p and call it a day.

If you have a small 40" 1080p then S would be more than ok, not for a 58" 4k, not by a long shot.

Edit: Forgot to mention that R5K diff you on about, is about the price you would pay just for the 1TB expansion and trust me when I say that 369 gig you have access to on Series S is nothing, and disappears fast. So its worth the R5K just for the space alone neverminded the other goodies you get for going X.
 
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Lupus said:
Sure but the gpus aren't the same, the amount of RAM isn't either, so they would need to start doing things like a PC
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RAM is not an issue 4K textures need more memory than their 1080p/1440p counterparts.

Game runs the same on both consoles, just looks better on the X.
 
Heksmeester said:
Hi Everyone,

So I'm thinking of finally upgrading to the next-gen (well, current-gen I suppose) Xbox and would like some opinions on which one to choose.

I'm a casual gamer but enjoy having good graphics and visuals on my games. I currently have an Xbox One S running on a 4K Hisense 58".

Is it worth it to get the Series X or will the Series S be sufficient for my needs? How future-proof is the Series S? At R5000 price difference, surely the performance must be around half that of the X.

I don't mind the SSD space as I can always hook up an external SSD and I have a pretty fast Fibre line so deleting games and re-downloading isn't an issue for me.

Your thoughts are appreciated. :)
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Your Xbox one S does have 4k capability and has a disc player. For me generally is enough, however if your heart is set on upgrading then the series X would be the best 1.
 
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Hot Wheels Unleashed pulled from upcoming Game Pass schedule

Microsoft recently announced new Xbox Game Pass games for December, which included Hot Wheels Unleashed – Game of the Year Edition. Now, Microsoft has said the game will not join the service on the 15th as planned.
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100 bucks says Sony is to blame.

Hot wheels was this month's PS+ game, but was only the base game. Something tells me Sony paid extra or had some clause on the PS+ deal to exclude it from Xbox GamePass/Live, even worse xbox where to get the GOTY edition

Edit: Correction, was in last month's PS+ game lineup.
 
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