Xbox Series S Available For $150 Thanks To Ongoing Verizon Sale

The 2020 console is available for half its price right now.

[FallenAngel1984]

No disc slot no sell for me

[shinoff2183]

Definitely needs to have a disc slot. I prefer physical media to much. Would've said the same for a ps5.

[Sonic1881]

I wouldn't get one if it was free

[blacktiger]

Would and sell it

[Ninver]

@blacktiger

See that's the difference between the average person and a hustler. Sell that sh#t lol

[Sgt_Slaughter]

$150 for a system that could be your all-in-one emulation station that runs GameCube games at 1440p full speed is a great deal. Helps that you could do the $1 Game Pass trick and also enjoy Xbox titles too.

[DivineHand125]

Seeing how you got disagrees for leaving a positive post for Xbox leads me to beleave that some persons are loyal to the competitors console so much that they would turn down the Xbox even if it was free.

[P_Bomb]

I have an X in the living room and an S in my kid’s bedroom. No regrets honestly.

[Haki1112]

That's N4G can't say anything good about Xbox or they get mad lol

[SurgicalMenace]

Perhaps it's because everything stated offers absolutely no support to the industry he's aiming to benefit from. It's like there's a whole new community who congratulates themselves for not being a contributing factor. It's no wonder MS's gaming division struggles so much.

[Stanjara]

I just read the article why emulation on series X/s is not that great. First if you are emulating anything xbox or x360 from a rom you could be permabanned.

Also, emulators on there are a lottery of working properly cause they have to be updated and adjusted all the time. Depending on a rom, one game can work, other can give you problems.

Controller is also questionable by software. I'm baffled by this but it seams that emulator interface gets confused what it is running on. Thinks it's a pc.

Anyways... I wouldn't bother with it.

https://n4g.com/news/253822...

There it is.

Without a disc? Uhhh it's a Gamepass machine.

[FortWaba]

What an incredibly ill-informed opinion.

[anast]

It's still too much for an emulator. Might as well go PC and get more bang for your buck.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

No disc slot imo I won't buy that.

[enkiduxiv]

Can’t even give them away.

[SullysCigar]

Exactly. This is painful to watch. They slashed the prices for the last few months of last year and still were the only one of the big three to post YoY sales decline. The advertised the deals like crazy too. Watch the Xbox secondhand market explode now PS5 is more readily available, which will only speed up the xbox hardware sales decline.

At this rate, MS will make that move to games publisher focus more quickly than anticipated and I really don't see the ABK deal (whichever way it lands) changing their situation in the hardware market for the better.

[ChasterMies]

At first I thought, hmmm, maybe a machine to play Halo and Starfield, but you’re right. I don’t want a less than current gen experience and neither does anyone else. Still, I wouldn’t besmirch anyone for jumping in on a fire sale. I still regret passing up a Dreamcast when I saw it at a deep discount at Toys’R’Us.

[Crows90]

Never seen such a generation where a console goes down in price so darn fast. Im thinking theres going to be a gen refresh from Microsoft quite quickly.

I think its quite insulting that they release the series s but then willfully prevent xbox one x users from enjoying next gen....they could do it. They did this whole marketing about how its a monster but abandoned it quickly.

The reason series s is going down in price so fast is because it is a last gen console. Theyre not touching the series x pricing at all.

[Hofstaderman]

How many of them make up the Series sales? Can they discontinue it or is the proportion too large? MS shot themselves in the foot again.

[EvertonFC]

Series S is about 60% of sales roughly apparently.
No chance of a discontinue unless you want to pi** off alot of gamers when future games don't come to the system.
That would be a disaster, but at the end of the day they have to stick with that dicision now for the rest of the gen.

[NotoriousWhiz]

I have a Series S. Microsoft should have done better to increase parity between it and the X. I'm okay with it being a 1080p machine if it can easily match frame rates and everything else of its big brother. As is, it seems like it will eventually stop games from coming to Xbox that otherwise would have if it weren't for the S. That said, I'm gonna ride this boat until it sinks. And drink all the rum on the way there.

[Chevalier]

It's apparently something like 55-60% of the Series sales so doubt they could cut it off so easily

[TiredGamer]

Crazy to think that the split ratio means that there are probably less than 10 million Series X consoles out in the wild. Once Series S becomes irrelevant, the console gap with PS5 will be significant.

[Crows90]

@notorious

Yeah I'm thinking as soon as PS5 gets to that 60million base there will be more exclusive 3rd party not on Xbox due to inability to release on series s

[Profchaos]

Microsoft stated to digital foundry the reason for the s was because there would be no price drop on the X for a very long time making a midgen refresh a impossibility

[anubusgold]

@Crows90 Ps3 caught up after xbox and nintendo had stopped production and already moved on to their new consoles. The ps2 outsold the ps3 for most of its lifetime.

[anubusgold]

The PS3 did in a desperate move to catch microsoft and the xbox 360 never really had to cut price because they was selling.

[Aloymetal]

''The PS3 did in a desperate move to catch microsoft and the xbox 360''
That's normal when your competitor (360) released a rushed (RROD) console to the market 1+ yr before because they knew it was the only way to have a temporary advantage over PS3. By the time the PS3 was released, 360 had 10mil units sold and even after all that they couldn't beat the PS3's global sales. So when you can't beat your opponent at their ''worst'' is really hard to beat them at their best. Let that sink in...

[Crows90]

Wouldnt the desperate move be to release compromised consoles to market early in order to get a head start?

Ps3 outsold the Xbox 360 by quite a bit regardless.

[anubusgold]

@Aloymetal No it was because the PS3 was 600 dollars plus tax thats why they got their butts kicked at first.

[jznrpg]

Junk to me

[Hofstaderman]

It still won’t sell

[Profchaos]

I could of sworn one of the rules of n4g was no sales articles

[Elda]

If one is going to buy an XB buy the Series X instead.

[onisama]

guys did you hear the news FTC grants access to xbox for requested documents from playstation, this is getting exciting lets see the dirty lundry

[kingnick]

While I can see the rationale for the two system console generation I always thought the S's lack of a disc drive combined with limited storage space was a major weakness, if a user only played a few games at a time it could be doable but not ideal. It is ridiculous the prices Microsoft changes for the expansion cards.

I wonder what the PS5 and Xbox Series X will sell if prices don't drop significantly over the course of the consoles lifecycles. There's a lot of people on more limited budgets that buy consoles after they've been out for a few years and are much cheaper and if this isn't the case this console generation will these people buy a PS5/XSX, they might just make do with an S instead.

[ocelot07]

I like the S. Been enjoying some classic 360 games since Christmas.

[aaronaton]

I can't to see in 10yrs what prices these will fetch on Ebay. I would say it will rival the 1st gen Wii, but at least those things come with disc drives and games. In 10yrs most of the games won't be downloadable or the servers will be shutdown.

[darkrider]

Next get GP and we give you a series s. A 2020 console with capabilities of 2016 console...

[Fonsecap]

First the image is wrong, that's a one S, second, a series s for 150 is a bargain, people complaining about not having disk drive and not being powerful enough or whatever, I understand those remarks, but, we're talking 150 USD, with this money you can't buy any console whatsoever. Ready for the downvotes

[Gamer_Dude]

That's a good deal, the Series S is about the equivalent to a low to mid-range gaming PC.

[saint_seya]

I dont like the Series S, for just one simple reason, feels like is limiting the Series X, and it will be more evident once the last gen consoles are discarded, and games will still have to be done taking into account the power (or lack of it) that Series S can output.

[kingnick]

Modern game engines are very scalable and working around a less capable GPU and RAM capacity and bandwidth is easier with a trade-offs for resolution, textures and effects. It's not that hard to scale games for the S, most games have to have scalability since there is a PC release and many PC gamers are using older quad core systems that are far more detrimental to modern games.

While I wouldn't like to play some titles on Series S where the native resolution can drop to 720p using DRS such a setup isn't limiting what the Xbox Series X version of the game can do graphically. As we're increasingly seeing developers just don't put as much effort into the S version sloppily downgrading textures etc.

[studentverhuizersnl]

Thanks for the update!