Topic: The everything Xbox thread

Really shocked at how cheap the Series S will be. Great option for those that don't have 4K TVs yet. I'm getting the Series X though. I do have a 4K TV and I didn't buy any version of the Xbox One, so I can spend the first year playing through all the Xbox One exclusives and even some 360 stuff I missed in 4K and HDR, along with stuff like Cyberpunk.

The Series S is a genius move by Microsoft. Next generation gaming at the price of a Switch? That's impulse buy territory as a Game Pass and BC console.

The Series S should have been a great move, but the lack of a disc drive kills it for me. Part of what I wanted a new Xbox for was to take advantage of the BC for my old 360 games, but with no disc drive, it's a no go for me. :/

Series S is tempting especially with that price, but with no disc drive makes my 360 games useless. I'm going to have to think about this.

Yeah if they lowered the price of 360 games digitally, it would make things a bit easier. But so many of them are still quite a high price so I can't really afford to rebuy them all!
I've got like 40 X360 games. Some of them are really expensive to buy digitally. Witcher 2 and Fable Anniversary are still pretty much full price.

The Witcher games go on regular sales across all platforms ....

@Dezzy Witcher 2 was ridiculously cheap during the last sale and you have Fable Anniversary on Game Pass. If you want ownership, wait for the next sale, it has been included many times.

And what about the rest of the 360 games? They still cost 20$ or 30$, so why buy the digital version when the physical route is much cheaper.

@MsJubilee I understand. You and @Dezzy will have to choose. Is it better to buy Series X and use your discs as keys or buy a cheaper digital-only console and say bye-bye to discs? I don't have an Xbox 360 and every 360 game that I own is digital but, still, I choose Series X for native 4K.

A big sale on 360/One games would engender a lot of good will, I think.

It's going to be hard to resist the Series S at that price point, even without physical BC.

Yeah, if you have enough 360 or XB1 games on discs that you want to keep playing ..... Maybe keep the current console you use for those?

I still choose Xbox 360 for DDR, Dance Evolution and Kinect games.

As someone who doesn't own an Xbox, the Series S is really appealing at that $300 price and its slim form factor, but no disc drive is a deal-breaker for me.

@Ralizah Series S (and Series X) has the same problem at PS Vita, if you want extra space you have to buy those proprietary SSD cards and something like Black Ops Cold War will likely take up around half the internal SSD memory.

I saw an idea on Pure Xbox and I think that is going to be how it'll going to work. Microsoft introduces the ability to play games on Series X and Series S using xCloud without installing them as a Game Pass Ultimate perk so you have the choice between buying a very expensive SSD card or subscribing to Game Pass Ultimate.

You don't know if the expansion cards are going to be very expensive. You'll have a similar problem on PS5 which has 825 GB. While it's true that you will have more choices for PS5, you will not know for sure what model to buy so I don't know what's worse.

@Grumblevolcano I doubt it'll be much of an issue for me. I juggled installs on PS4's 500GB hard drive for an entire generation with little issue, after all.

The problem with PS Vita was that it was obscenely expensive even to get to the point where you have a little bit of space to download stuff.

@BlueOcean I hope not. Those expansion cards are just adorable, and bring back fond memories of the PS1.

@Ralizah Microsoft is consumer-friendly so I think that the expansion cards will be fairly priced unlike the PS Vita cards.

Side note, developers say Series S is no joke.

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2020/09/multiple_developers_sai...

You all play with expansion cards. If I need more hard drive space I am just going to grab me an external hard drive like I did with my PS4 and Xbox One. Problem solved.

@Tasuki That's another option, you can store Series games on the external HDD and copy them to the internal SSD when you want to play them as confirmed by Microsoft.

@Tasuki Microsoft has already announced that the expansion cards are the only way to expand memory for Series X games. Other memory options are limited to just for backwards compatible games.