Poll: *** Xbox Series X|S - General Discussion Thread ***
Yep - EA to be included in gamepass , and like you I'm pleasantly surprised with the cost of the new consoles
Soldato
It includes good I believe, could be wrong though.
Soldato
Gold is part of Game Pass Ultimate
Soldato
Amazing move by MS. I thought they'd try a phone plan type contract. Sony are going to have to do something spectacular.
Associate
it would be interesting to see how many people will take advantage of the all access as well as those who will purchase the hardware up front.
Soldato
Could be added to the poll.
I'm likely to be one of those folk looking at it; more often than not you'll find a deal where you can get 3 months of Game Pass Ultimate for £18 like I've just seen today. Worse still, 14 day auction site codes for a quid or two each time. Not convenient by any means, but you save a lot more money...
I personally don't think its a horrible design. Just a poor colour scheme it would have looked fine as a all white one colour console
Design can't be that important to you if you're buying a PS5
Amazing that this new generation is bringing 4 console SKUs, and every one of them has weird things going on, design wise. Series X is an odd shape. PS5 just looks bizarre (and is absolutely huge!). Series S looks fairly normal and unremarkable (in a good way)... but hang on, what on Earth is that? A massive black spot on the top of the console?
I quite like the PS5 though!Design can't be that important to you if you're buying a PS5
Amazing that this new generation is bringing 4 console SKUs, and every one of them has weird things going on, design wise. Series X is an odd shape. PS5 just looks bizarre (and is absolutely huge!). Series S looks fairly normal and unremarkable (in a good way)... but hang on, what on Earth is that? A massive black spot on the top of the console?
Series X design is okay just boring and basically midi tower pc case
Series S has been attacked with a large bingo dabber.
Associate
personally I have no issues with the design of the series s, or x for that matter. To be honest I'm not going to be spending much time looking at them when playing, and they will be pretty much out of sight anyway. However the PS5 .. what were they thinking!!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
I'm quite content with the fact I won't see the Series S's black spot once it's in my entertainment unit. In that sense, it effectively doesn't exist.
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is it? I need to go through the specs again but I thought the S was 4 teraflops against the X being 6. Assume the X is seriously being held back by the CPU....but if that was the case, a real daft move by MS when they gave the X 6 teraflops.
You can't compare the series S to the One X
Series s is fully next gen and does everything the series X does. Just at a lower resolution. Comparing next gen TFs to last gen TFs is daft.
TFLOPs aren't directly comparable between architectures. The One X runs on GCN. Series X|S run on RDNA2. The Nvidia RTX 3080 is something like 25 TFLOPs on Ampere.
We don't really know exactly how RDNA2 compares to GCN yet as no GPUs have been released on this architecture. But we do know how GCN and RDNA compare. And from that, the RDNA2 GPU in Series S can be presumed to be at least as powerful as the one in the One X.
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Damn, really good prices. Tempted to go for the Series S as an upgrade from my One S and then go for this hacky method thats doing the rounds to get 3 years of Live and the Pass for 70odd quid. Although looking at the Pass there isn't really any games I would play (I only play Fifa and Call of Duty )
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