Xbox Series S - 15 Things You Need To Know Before You Buy

[Music] the xbox lockhart has been rumored for about two years now and leaks have been ramping up over the past month or so they ramped up so much in fact that microsoft were basically forced to reveal the console in full officially called the xbox series s now after a flurry of activity over the last few days we know the crucial launch information for xbox's next generation that we've been waiting for for months here we're going to focus on one of the two consoles they'll be entering the ninth console generation with and talk about the key things you should know about the xbox series s form factor microsoft already surprised quite a few people when they revealed what the xbox series x would look like back in december it's fair to say that they did so once again with its less powerful counterpart with the black circular vent dominating one side of the console the xbox series s definitely has a unique look it's much slimmer than the series x and it's being billed as the smallest xbox console ever while we don't know the exact dimensions of the box we do know that it's 60 smaller than the xbox series x all digital microsoft have been moving further and further into digital territory these last few years it started with the xbox one s all digital edition and for next gen they'll be continuing that trend the xbox series s is going to be an all digital console which means that if you want a disk drive in your xbox you're gonna have to go with the xbox series x 1440p at up to 120 fps 4k gaming is something that many people had been hoping will become the industry standard with next-gen consoles and while that's definitely what the xbox series x is going for the xbox series s is still going to fall short of that microsoft have designed the console to target 1440p resolutions that said it won't be making any sacrifices in the frame rate department as per microsoft the xbox series s is capable of achieving frame rates of up to 120 fps and while it remains to be seen just how frequently or how well it will do that we can at least be assured hopefully that it will regularly hit 60fps ssd the inclusion of a solid state drive is something that both the ps5 and the xbox series x have been emphasizing quite a bit and the xbox series s2 is going to have an ssd it will feature the same nvme ssd as the series x with the same 2.4 gigabytes per second uncompressed and 4.8 gigabytes per second compressed bandwidth as far as storage capacity is concerned though it will be making some sacrifices coming in at 512 gigabytes as compared to the xbox series x's one terabyte ssd expansion 512 gigabytes is not a lot of storage space especially seeing as games just keep growing larger and larger as time passes you will however have the option to expand your storage microsoft have confirmed that the one terabyte ssd expansion card they're releasing in partnership with seagate will work with the xbox series s just as it will with the series x what that price of that ssd expansion will be remains to be seen but a recent report suggested a rather steep price of 220 dollars cpu the xbox series s's cpu is perhaps its most impressive element while it's making sacrifices to varying degrees in many areas in order to be sold at its much cheaper price as far as its processor is concerned the console is more or less identical to the xbox series x it has the same 8 core amd zen 2 cpu with a nearly identical bandwidth of 3.6 gigahertz which comes to 3.4 gigahertz with smt enabled as opposed to the series x's 3.8 gigahertz or 3.6 gigahertz with smt enabled gpu while its cpu is impressive the gpu is probably where the xbox series s has taken the biggest hit though built on the same rdna ii architecture the xbox series s's gpu has 20 compute units at 1.565 gigahertz as compared to the series x's 52 compute units at gigahertz in terms of clock speeds this comes to four teraflops which is significantly lower than the xbox series x's 12.15 teraflops three times the gpu performance of xbox one just because the xbox series s is going to be noticeably weaker than the series x in the gpu department doesn't mean it's not going to be next-gen microsoft have stated in pretty explicit terms that its gpu is still a huge step up over current gen console hardware in fact xbox series s's gpu allegedly offers three times the performance of the xbox one gpu how accurate that is in practice remains to be seen but here's hoping it will be enough to be able to keep up with what developers will need to make true next-gen experiences ram xbox series s's ram 2 makes some sacrifices to ensure a cheaper price for the console it has a 10 gigabyte gddr6 ram which is split across two pools one is an eight gigabyte pool which will run at 224 gigabytes per second while the smaller two gigabyte pool will run at 56 gigabytes per second what we'll need to wait and see how this affects development of next-gen games the hope remains that the ram won't prove to be a bottleneck for developers ray tracing vrr vrs and more though the xbox series s is less powerful than the xbox series x in many ways microsoft have ensured that the weaker console still boasts many of the most important technical leaps the latter is making that means that the xbox series s will support hardware accelerated ray tracing variable rate shading variable refresh rate ultra low latency and other system level features such as quick resume velocity architecture the one aspect of the xbox series x's hardware that microsoft have been touting more than anything else is the xbox velocity architecture the catch-all term they've given to several elements that work together to make streaming much faster including hardware decompression direct storage and sampler feedback streaming collectively they reduce the workload usually put on the cpu for data transfers making streaming of assets more efficient and also make on-the-fly decompression faster crucially the xbox series s makes use of the velocity architecture in all of its glory without any cutbacks audio the audio department is another area where microsoft are looking to keep their next gen experience uniform across both their new consoles which means the xbox series s boasts the same audio tech and features as the xbox series x to be more specific the series s will have spatial sound which includes support for dolby atmos launch titles while the technical aspects of the console are important of course perhaps the most crucial element that you'll be considering before deciding whether or not to purchase the console will be its library so what games is the xbox series s launching with well we've known for a while now that bloober team's ambitious horror game the medium is going to be a launch title on top of that recently many other games have also been confirmed as launch titles for the xbox series s and series x including the likes of watch dogs legion assassin's creed valhalla yakuza like a dragon dirt 5 the falconer tetris effect connected and more price and pre-orders outside of games the other most crucial thing prospective consumers will be considering is the price which is something that microsoft have finally revealed after months of waiting the xbox series s will launch at a shockingly reasonable price of 299 dollars sure that comes with some sacrifices in terms of the hardware but 299 at launch for a next-gen console is a very compelling price pre-orders for the xbox series s will be going live on september 22nd xbox all access microsoft have made it abundantly clear on multiple occasions over the last few months that they're going to go big with xbox all access their financial program and they've revealed the full details on that now with xbox all access for no upfront cost you'll be getting an xbox series s along with 24 months of xbox game pass ultimate for 25 dollars per month for 24 months the total comes up to 600 which incredibly enough is lower than the cumulative price of the console and 24 months of game pass you'd be paying otherwise which would come to around 660 dollars starting this holiday xbox all access will be available in 12 countries namely the united states the uk australia canada new zealand france sweden poland south korea finland denmark and norway and that about does it for this video if you enjoyed what you watched and want to see more from gamingbolt you can always hit that subscribe button and turn on the bell icon next to it that way you will never miss any of our videos

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Length: 9min 19sec (559 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 10 2020