Xbox Series S – 512GB (2024)

---Title: Incredible Value for Next-Gen Gaming!I’ve had the Xbox Series S for a few months now, and I’m really impressed. This console may be the "little brother" of the Series X, but don’t let that fool you—it packs a serious punch.What I Love:Compact and Quiet: It’s super small and fits easily into my setup. It runs whisper-quiet too, even during intense games.Fast Load Times: Thanks to the SSD, everything loads quickly. No more waiting forever to start a game!Game Pass is a Game Changer: With Xbox Game Pass, I get access to tons of games for a low monthly fee. It’s perfect if you like trying new titles without breaking the bank.Great Performance: Most games run at 60fps and look great, even if it’s not native 4K. Perfect for 1080p or 1440p gaming.What Could Be Better:Storage is Tight: The 512GB internal storage fills up fast. If you play big games like Call of Duty or Halo, you’ll probably need an expansion card.No Disc Drive: It’s all-digital, so if you have physical games or movies, this isn’t the console for you.Final Thoughts: If you're looking for a next-gen console at a great price, the Xbox Series S is a fantastic choice. It’s especially great for casual gamers, kids, or anyone who’s already invested in digital gaming. Highly recommend!Rating: 5/5

I put the ninty pad in for scale this thing is compact it will easily fit in a small rucksack for travel to a m8s. This will be a great place to play your gamepass games on rock solid 30fps instead of wavering frame rates and 60fps where an unlocked FPS was used textures look a bit better and where variable Res was used will look sharper as Res will mostly top out with less drops. This gens games even have basic ray tracing reflections and shadows as in watchdog legions looks great. This gen we get a real CPU in the box so the UI is very snappy the s does what the X does but at 1440p or mostly 1080p to 1440p at a variable resolution between the two. Games look great and can run at 120fps a few games can run at 4k 60fps like ori and the touryst 4k is an option for developers. The controller has the most important upgrade you need lower latency when you press the button things on screen happen quicker 👍. You can just plug your usb drives with your games on straight into the s and after set up with the Xbox app on your Android or iPhone they will be recognised and you can play your games from there except for X/s optimised games you can store those there but need to transfer them into internal to play. A 1tb card is available but if you have a usb drive moving games over is pretty fast especially via ssd. The internal nvme is fast!! This is a lovely little console can't understand the negative attitude towards it a 5500 Ryzen 3700 rig for 249.99 well that's a terrible deal duh. Other notable additions are a superior d pad with a clicky 8 way action and auto HDR making colours pop on games without native HDR even 360 and og Xbox one's quick resume lets you keep 3 or 4 games juggling at once you can quickly switch between them🤹 all round winner for the money. Man from the future says this after some time with it is turning into a fantastic deal just playing state of decay 2 it was unplayable on the one X okay it looked a bit better but it still looks great but the performance is the kicker it's smooth as hell. Performance is king I can see this turning into a way to play many of the games I abandoned on the one due to being too badly running at the mo not all games will improve this much I know games with unlocked FPS will be the main beneficiaries but I'm sure the back cat team will step in. Decided I won't bother with ps5 and X 3080 2tb gen4 pcie 1kpsu for me full on real ray tracing this will be my console going forward this puppy is what consoles used to be compact efficient simple with some of pcs best features blended in like magic my favourite console hardware since the GameCube🎮🎮👍omg pay 20 some odd quid and you can get dev mode on this and run emulators see modern vintage gamer on toob for details I think you can develop games with the software in this mode👌

The Series S is a superb little machine. I have my gaming PC upstairs but wanted to be able to use Game Pass in my lounge as well. This little fella fits the bill superbly.Storage is limited but expandable via the official card, games can also be stored on an external HDD/SSD. I only tend to have half a dozen games on the go at any one time, so the storage space is fine for me.As for performance - it’s a very capable little machine. I’m using mine on a 4K TV and games look great. Typical resolution for games is 1080p - 1440p running at 60fps. Game Pass is quite simply the best deal in gaming. You can get 12 months for the price of a single AAA game on a certain competitor. You will get ALL of Microsoft’s own games on day one, plus many more besides in Game Pass. It’s truly fantastic value. In the last 2 weeks alone I’ve been able to play the frankly amazing Forza Horizon 5 and now the new Halo Infinite multiplayer, with the campaign to come on Dec 8th.The Series S runs whisper quiet and I actually laughed when I first opened the box- I knew it was small but it’s only when you see it in the flesh you realise how small! Think along the lines of a large box of tissues and you’re there. Loading times are vastly quicker than on previous Xboxes.Great machine, worth every penny. Love it.