Literally nobody was covering this other than That Park Place. While people were scrambling to find next generation consoles during the holiday season, That Park Place was reporting that a far better option than buying an Xbox Series S was an Xbox One X with an SSD. That meant that buying a last-gen Xbox was better than the more casual version of Microsoft’s next-gen options.
From one of our earlier articles:
“It may seem surprising to some, but it turns out that for all the bragging about Xbox Series S and how it is more “next generation” than the Xbox One X… that might not be necessarily true. In fact, it might be so not-true that developer Playground Games has left out a particular graphics mode on Xbox One X, perhaps to hide the fact that it outperforms Series S in some significant areas.”
Xbox One X Better Than Series S? Halo Infinite Gives More Evidence
It’s not like we ran these articles without receiving some heat. Take a look at one comment we had about this coverage:
“I have both 1x and SX . The SX has a marked improvement over 1x. In fact I cannot even play it on 1X anymore, the differences are significant. Yes the 1x is a powerful machine but the new SX is where it’s at. To say the 1x version is better than the SX version is a lie.”
— Brett
Now we’re not here to say that Xbox One X is better than the Xbox Series S in every way. It’s often a mixed bag, although Xbox One X with an attached SSD is usually the better option. The issue was that people were spending hundreds of dollars when they already had a mostly better machine… they just needed to buy an SSD. That’s not to say if you could get an Xbox Series X you were making a bad purchase; we’re only making a claim about Series S versus the Xbox One X. And even if you thought the Xbox One X is slightly worse than a Series S, is that really worth families dropping hundreds of dollars and scrambling to find a new console? Probably not.
If you’re interested in a very deep-dive into the games and comparisons, check out the full video from Digital Foundry:
As always, when you want to know the information early about all the things that should be fun, keep checking out That Park Place. We’ll get you the info often before anybody else!
