Xbox Series S An Open Secret After Controller Leak

@letsgame82: Why buy digital if you have a choice?

Why eliminate the value it's just impulsive & lazy.

@ssdd_again:

Except, not everybody’s a simpleton. Some people aren’t new to the market; therefor know that most digital versions of everything is a total ripoff, and better deals can be found at brick & mortar stores.

Then there’s those who’re also in the market for a UHD player - so the regular PS5 makes much more sense in this case.

@ssdd_again: That’s not true at all , as a hardcore console gamer, I’m only interested in the consoles with disks at the moment, if servers go down U can still play offline on games I have on disk, can’t redownload games if servers are off

@ssdd_again: No, that's about right. You know people will buy the cheaper console and you know people are more comfortable with buying digitally now that digital sales have surpassed 50% or something like that. If people really want the discs, charge a premium since you can reasonably bet that people who care enough about discs to still want them will pay extra.

Not necessarily how things will play out, but that's a perfectly valid strategy. In my experience, people who get too hung up on buying things exactly the way they want it will eventually stop buying and just stick to what they have, so it's not really worth appealing to a waning market for too long.

@Jarrkha: Notice? You mean like noticing the Xbox One controller has had adaptive triggers since 2013? You mean like noticing that the DualSense isn't that 'new' at all? that kind of notice?

What other features are you expecting from the XsX controller?

@antihero1939: It was all rumours.

@trouble2323: Not sure, but not all North Americans speak English as a first language.

@just1mohr: Your last point is utterly incorrect. Developing for Xbox is *identical* to developing for Windows.

The "X" has *always* meant "DirectX."

There's a set of libs, a handful of hooks (most optional), and an onboarding portal + process. Same for Steam, same for EGS.

@just1mohr: Just buy a MORE POWERFUL PC.

@USDevilDog: The X-sex-E. Yeah, totally Peter Griffin laugh.

@GalvatronType_R: I really don't think a Series S will matter as much as people think It should just because of a potentially lower price. Games on It would still look like a current gen 7yold console and that's not what most people want , despite a being $100/$150+ cheaper than the digital version of PS5. Seems like It's basically just replacing the Xbox One X , and that's not worth dragging down 9th gen multiplat games or first party Xbox games across the board.

@GalvatronType_R: The Xbox One had the Xbox One X and the PS4 had the PS4 Pro. This is no different.

@GalvatronType_R: it won’t be. It’s replacing the base Xbox one where the Series X replaces the One X, and it’ll probably be $300ish I’d guess.

It’s a new thing to do and I’m not sure how it’ll play out, but it’s going to be cheaper, which would help adoption too

@teshammutna: Confused people generally know how to google really well. Parents, if they can't even google can always go to a store and ask someone who works there which one is which. Its really not that complicated. If someone who plays games on console can't figure out one console from another, they have more concerning issues to work out.

@teshammutna: We're talking 2 SKU's here, and the new games will play on both.

I think I have enough faith in people to believe that they can handle 2 pieces of information at once 😉

@teshammutna: Naw it's only confusing for people who don't wanna read. I don't know anyone who just drops money on something they are confused about. That just doesn't make sense. We live in a age where you can preview any product on YouTube before you buy it. You can read reviews before you buy. This is not the 90's...smh

@teshammutna: Yeah, it's also weird given the specs the Series S's gpu is weaker than the Xbox One X's gpu and S has less ram too. At this point the S is pretty much an Xbox One X Pro that can play newer games with it's higher end cpu. But it's going to be a lot weaker due to only having 4 tera flops and less ram.