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XBox Series S worth it?
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Date: December 6th, 2021 7:14 PM Author: Contagious startling newt national Don't really play games too often but seems legit when paired with Gamepass. Do the games run smoothly? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4980285&forum_id=2#43569752) |
Date: December 6th, 2021 7:20 PM Author: Pea-brained forum sandwich Is the extra money for an X a big deal to you or something? The only reason to get an S is that you don't have a 4k TV. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4980285&forum_id=2#43569776) |
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Date: December 6th, 2021 7:22 PM Author: Contagious startling newt national Don't have the time to chase down a Series X. I wanna play Halo over the Holiday. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4980285&forum_id=2#43569783) |
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Date: December 6th, 2021 7:27 PM Author: Pea-brained forum sandwich Can't believe it is still this hard to get. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4980285&forum_id=2#43569802) |
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Date: December 6th, 2021 7:49 PM Author: Contagious startling newt national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4980285&forum_id=2#43569953) |
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Date: December 7th, 2021 10:33 AM Author: Pea-brained forum sandwich A bit ago MS sent emails saying they had Series X bundles available direct from them. Idk if it is because I'm already a Game Pass subscriber or what. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4980285&forum_id=2#43572515) |
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Date: December 6th, 2021 11:28 PM Author: Contagious startling newt national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4980285&forum_id=2#43571231) |
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Date: December 6th, 2021 11:29 PM Author: Self-centered organic girlfriend Guy I play halo with went from 10/7 k d ratio to 29/7 when he got one for what it’s worth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4980285&forum_id=2#43571238) |
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Date: December 7th, 2021 10:50 AM Author: mind-boggling step-uncle's house if you are not concerned with 4k, using old disks, and recognize that you need to buy the 1tb ssd hard drive expansion for an extra $220, then yes its fine and 180 for gamepass.
I bought the 1tb expansion just last weekend BTW for my Series X - the Series S hard drive is like 350gb after the operating system etc so that holds only a few games, some games are over 100gb these days. Note that you can plug in a regular usb hard drive to store games, and move them back and forth from the internal SSD pretty easily when you want to play them. A lot of the new games won't run off of a usb drive though |
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Date: December 7th, 2021 10:51 AM Author: Aqua soggy university it's trash
first you gotta upgrade the hdd (unless you only want to play 2 games) since it only has a tiny pink ~300gb + change leftover from the OS install - $220
then half the good games aren't on game pass so you gotta buy them separately - $500
some pumo here said you aren't even living unless you get the separate $180 pro controller
so now you're $1200 in on a system that doesn't have a blu ray player and you could probably skip the hdd upgrade with the 1TB onboard for the big chungus edition making it actually cheaper all in
whole thing seems precision engineered to nickel & dime you at every opportunity straight into bill gates' pockets
in conclusion, fuck xbox, fuck bill gates, and fuck micro$oft |
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Date: December 7th, 2021 10:57 AM Author: mind-boggling step-uncle's house the fact that it doesn't play disks is my biggest complaint. Being that the Series X has pretty substantial backwards compatibility and you can get tons of classics for very cheap at gamestop, you are throwing away a lot of potential. But for just a gamepass machine I guess its fine. Also its literally the only console I've seen in stores (PS5, Xbox, Switch) in several months. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4980285&forum_id=2#43572669) |
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Date: December 7th, 2021 10:59 AM Author: Aqua soggy university I never had an xbox so I can't speak to backwards compatibility. all the 360 / one games I wanted were on the digital store
gamepass has flight simulator, forza, and some other decent titles. I'll probably cancel after the free period and just buy what I want bc lmao at paying bill gates every month to lease video games like some broke dick prole who can't do math |
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Date: December 7th, 2021 11:00 AM Author: mind-boggling step-uncle's house yeah there are tons of great 360 games that look great on the series X that aren't on gamepass (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4980285&forum_id=2#43572692) |
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Date: December 7th, 2021 11:05 AM Author: Pea-brained forum sandwich My biggest issue is that the discount is peanuts for the loss in power/capability. In PC terms, the difference between a cheap gaming desktop and a TOTL gaming desktop is the difference between a $1k machine and a $4k machine. Fair enough, that's a huge chunk of change, even spread out over 3-4 years. Consoles are generally cheap and a few hundred bucks is nothing here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4980285&forum_id=2#43572713) |
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Date: December 7th, 2021 11:44 PM Author: Contagious startling newt national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4980285&forum_id=2#43576594) |
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Date: December 7th, 2021 11:03 AM Author: Pea-brained forum sandwich I'm the quotemo with the elite controller. You can find the elite controller for $150 at Costco. I also use it for PC gaming too.
I mostly game on Game Pass. You can supplement with other games as they go on sale, which they regularly do. I picked up the Bioshock and Mass Effect collections (yeah, they're remasters, but they are phenomenal) recently. Game Pass also gives you a library for PC and allows you to stream. I also have Nvidia's streaming service (which, is definitely better quality).
Gaming is an expensive hobby generally but this is the cheapest way to do quality gaming. Series X gets you a solid gaming platform and Game Pass gets you a ton of games. |
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Date: December 7th, 2021 11:05 AM Author: Aqua soggy university this can't be true. you could build a pc from scratch for $600 (probably even $400 if you're thrifty) that would blow xbox out of the water. and then get all the games for 75-90% off on any of the steam sales
with a bit of technical skill you could probably hack a $199 nintendo switch lite and get all the games for free |
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Date: December 7th, 2021 11:09 AM Author: Pea-brained forum sandwich You absolutely could not. And yes, I am a PC gamer too. The issue that you have with PCs is that they are, by definition, made for general purpose computing. Xboxs are built solely for gaming. They don't have real multi-tasking, which would be unacceptable for any computer but is totally fine for a console. There are a bunch of comparison vids on YouTube of games between solid PC builds and Xbox Series X and PS5 showing that consoles are basically there and that advantages are either minor or totally unnoticeable.
For $600 boxes you're not even close. Basic example: you're not doing 4k gaming like you are on a Series X on a $200-300 graphics card.
EDIT: the best cheap alternative is Nvidia Geforce Now where you can rent a machine with a threadripper CPU and a 3080 graphics card and stream games for $200/year. But the service doesn't support most AAA games.
Also, the concept that you can't buy discounted console games is outdated. They're discounted just like PC games these days. Except that you can also buy used games. |
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Date: December 7th, 2021 11:12 AM Author: Aqua soggy university yeah but I'm not trying to sit around waiting and checking for sporadic random console game sales
steam has the same sales every year pretty much on the same weeks and you always know it's coming and that almost everything is going to be marked down. at a certain point it's about time preference |
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Date: December 7th, 2021 11:36 AM Author: Pea-brained forum sandwich It isn't hard to catch them. Slickdeals will cover them.
And again, I mostly game on Game Pass. So it isn't like I ever am sitting there going "fuck, I have nothing to play". |
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Date: December 7th, 2021 11:38 AM Author: maroon reading party Just get a PC, Xbox is giving all their exclusives to PC anyway. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4980285&forum_id=2#43572901) |