The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S have finally released. As players around the world are unpacking their boxes and setting up their consoles, the industry is taking its first step into the new console generation.
Newly released games and backwards compatible titles can now be rendered in up to 4K 120 FPS when taking advantage of Microsoft’s cutting edge technology. The Xbox Series X and Series S will also improve load times and unlock newly designed features such as Quick Resume.
"The Bellevue-based (Washington, the US) indie games publisher tinyBuild and Medellin-based (Colombia) indie games developer C2 Game Studio, today announced with great happiness and excitement that their fast-paced ARPG "Astor: Blade of the Monolith", is coming to PC (via Steam)a nd consoles (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch) on May 30th, 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
"The London-based (the UK) indie games publisher Curve Games and Vienna-based (Austria) indie games developer Microbird, are today very proud and excited to announce that their colorful & creative ARPG/social sim "Dungeons of Hinterbeg", is coming to PC (Steam) and consoles (Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch) via digital stores on July 18th, 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
"The Leicester-based (the UK) indie games publisher Kasedo Games and London-based (the UK) indie games developer Beard Envy, are today super happy and excited to announce that their sci-fi roguelite spaceship repair sim "Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop" is coming to PC (via Steam) and consoles (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch) this November." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
The SSD is a much bigger quality of life improvement than what I thought it would be. It really makes gaming so much better when you are not weighing moving between menus and games based on how long it might take. Everything feels so snappy that it is worth the price of admission for both consoles imo.
Don't buy the Xbox Series S.
Repeat: DO NOT BUY the Series *S*.
As a non-Xbox fan, and anti-Xbox "fan", the Series X has my blessing as someone who will never buy an Xbox at this point, but given that it has no disc drive, is all digital, the small size of its SSD and the price of a memory card, the Series S is just a bad choice. Especially if you're looking a "cheap" Xbox, which it isn't.
Series S is what i am giving my 9 year old who only plays fortnite, roblux, rocket league, and titles of that ilk....