While it doesn’t have the wow factor of the PS5’s DualSense controller and its smarty-pants haptic feedback, it’s still superb. It’s not a huge step up from the old Xbox controller, with the main additions being some new textures on the rear grips and triggers, a different dish-shaped D-pad, and the new share button for capturing video clips and screenshots. It’s Microsoft’s new Xbox Wireless controller as supplied with the Series X, only in what Microsoft calls Robot White rather than Carbon Black. One thing you’re not getting here is a cut-down controller. As with the Xbox One X and Series X, the power supply is – amazingly – internal. There’s a single USB 3 port on the front and a further two at the rear, along with a Gigabit Ethernet port, an HDMI 2.1 output and the expansion slot for Seagate’s £220 1TB expansion drive. READ NEXT: The best TVs for next-gen gaming It’s surprisingly quiet when it’s running, too quieter than the Xbox One X and even quieter than my PS5 Digital, which itself barely makes a whisper. There’s a big black grill on the top (or right-hand side if you place it vertically), and otherwise not a whole lot to report. In fact, it’s the closest Microsoft or Sony has come to a Nintendo-like design, reminding me a little of the much-maligned Wii-U. It’s a little white box about the size of a shoebox. These are effectively gaming PCs using proprietary, integrated components and stuffed into a custom case, and they’re big because they need the airflow. The PS5 is much taller and wider than you think, and might only just squeeze in if you’ve got plenty of spare space. The Xbox Series X is a cuboid monolith that’s too big to fit in almost any AV cabinet. One thing you probably know about the next-gen consoles is that they’re huge. Xbox Series S review: Design and key features I wouldn’t suggest buying any of these over a Series S, unless you’re a big Nintendo fan, but the choice is there. Most importantly, a Nintendo Switch could be yours for around £280. PS4 and PS4 Pro consoles are also still available from some outlets for £250 to £300. While manufacturing has stopped, you can still buy the old Xbox One S for around £220, while the faster, 4K-capable One X can still be found on eBay for around £250 to £300. There is, of course, still some current-gen competition. At £350, though, it’s still £100 more expensive than the Xbox Series S. In fact, its only next-gen competition is the drive-less PS5 Digital Edition, which is identical in specification to the regular PS5, but available for £100 less. It costs much less than Sony’s full-fat, 4K Blu-ray equipped PS5. If you’re a paid-up member of the benchmark-obsessed PC gaming massive you’ll regard this as the stuff of nightmares, but if games look great and play well at 1080p on Series S, does it really matter? Xbox Series S review: Price and competitionĪs we’ve already established, the Series S is a whole lot cheaper than the Series X. And in the real world, rather than the world of console specs, that often means 1080p at 60fps or even 1080p at 30fps. How on Earth can it play the same games then? Well, where the Series X is designed to play them at native 4K resolutions at 60 to 120fps, the Series S targets a maximum 1440p at 60fps. That GPU has just 20 RDNA2 compute units, too, where the Series X GPU has 52. Where the Series X has a 12 teraflop GPU running at 1.825GHz, the Series S has a weedy-sounding 4 teraflop GPU running at just 1.55Ghz. It also has 10GB of GDDR6 RAM against the Series X’s 16GB. The Series S has the same eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU as the Series X, but it runs at a 200MHz deficit. Of course, they’ll have to do so on a device that’s significantly less powerful. Best external hard drive for Xbox Series X 2023: The top hard drives for Xbox Series S and Series X
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