(relaxed lo-fi music) - It's gonna be hard to find
the new consoles right now, especially if you haven't already. And this time around,
they are a little pricey. Luckily, Microsoft
makes it a little easier by releasing a more affordable option. These new consoles have a lot to offer, but with technology you
probably can't really take full advantage of yet and barely any launch titles, is it really worth it to jump on the Xbox hype train right now? Well, I already did for you so that I can potentially
save you some money or put you $500 more in
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helping support this channel. Your first choice is going to be between the X or the S. Well, really your first choice is gonna be whether or not you want
one in the first place, but let's just assume that you do. The biggest difference between these two is that the S does not have a disk drive. So if you're not comfortable going all-digital this generation, you're going to wanna go with the X. They will both play all of the same games and should have very similar performance. The real difference is in the specs. The Xbox Series X can do true 4K gaming while the S,
(box clattering) (people laughing) can only do up to 1440p. They both support up to 8K video if you wanna watch the latest MKBHD and have the bandwidth to spare. Nope, nevermind. The YouTube app only does up to 4K. The Xbox Series X has
one terabyte of storage where the S only has 512 gigabytes. Now, neither of these hard drives are gonna have enough space for a lot of next gen, AAA, 4K games. But for a diskless system, 512 gigabytes is going to be a problem
for a lot of people. They're both pretty small consoles but the S is shockingly small. Oh my God!
- Oh my God! - Is that it?
- That thing's tiny. - It's the smallest Xbox ever made, so maybe that's an
important factor to you. Looking at the specs, it
looks like the Xbox Series S is for people on a budget. It looks like it's for people
who just want an Xbox now and are comfortable upgrading later. Luckily, Seagate makes
external expansion cards that are fast enough to run
the latest games off of. Unfortunately, those are
only one terabyte for $220. So if you're going to buy an Xbox series S and upgrade the storage, then it's going to cost
you more than it would have to just get an X. So the S is really just for people who are only gonna play
one or two games per year, the Call of Duty, Madden and FIFA people. Or maybe people who just don't care about 4K gaming right now, and are comfortable
upgrading in the future, maybe with a
mid-console-lifecycle iteration. If you anticipate playing a lot of games, it might be worth it to
just get the Xbox Series X. If you're looking for an excuse to upgrade your current Xbox, you're probably interested
in all the new games and the true 4K gaming. Right now there are actually
a lot of launch titles. However, all but four of
these are on other consoles and of those four, every
single one of them is on PC. So, I wouldn't say the latest games is exactly a good reason to upgrade from your old Xbox right now. In fact, with Smart Delivery, Microsoft makes it real easy for you to upgrade in the future. They're doing you a favor here. They're saying you can hold off on these consoles for right now. If you're considering Xbox and you're new to console gaming, or you just
haven't played in a while, a major selling point is Game Pass. It's a Netflix-style
subscription for games, and there are over 100
games available on there for the Series X and S right now. And both of these consoles
come with a free trial. So you're ready to play
tons of great games right out of the box. For the first time ever,
neither of these consoles come with a free subscription to Xbox Live or even Game Pass, but there's plenty of deals for Game Pass, you could even just get the
first month for a dollar if you're new to it. Then you could play tons of great games right when you get this
thing out of the box. That's perfect for the
diskless Xbox Series S. But that hard drive space just isn't. Cloud gaming comes
included with Game Pass, which would be great for the hard drive, but it's not available on consoles yet, it's only available on
Android and PC at the moment. But this lets you pick up your game on your Android phone whenever you want. The controller is basically the same familiar Xbox controller with minor differences. The major difference is the share button right where you would
expect the home button to be or a start button, so you hit it whenever you wanna hit start. But we'll get used to that. I thought I wasn't gonna like that D pad, but it's actually pretty nice. That's my favorite thing about this D pad, is how clicky it is. This is clickier! This looks like a different black. Under certain lighting, it looks different. Yeah, look at that. It's sparklier. Now is this gonna have the same
sort of fingerprint problem? - Yeah, it's really doing it.
- Oh, there you go. There you go. There's already a scratch on it. (laughs) - [Cameraman] Seriously? Oh my God! Because you threw it on the table, Bob! - It's lived in. - [Cameraman] Is that your excuse? - Yeah. You know when you drive
the car off the lot it's worth quite significantly less? Return this to GameStop,
it's gonna be worth $200 and that's why, because
it's got fingerprints on it and I scratched it. If you happen to have one of those rechargeable battery
packs for the Xbox One, they will work just fine in the Series X. Both of these consoles can do
120 frames per second gaming, which is a feature that I was
really excited to try out. It's a feature that PC
gamers have benefited from for a really long time now. There's a lot of weird caveats
to this feature, though. Not many TVs have 120 Hertz panels and not a lot of TVs have HDMI 2.1 ports, which are required to handle
that sort of bandwidth. Also, the Xbox Series S only comes with a regular old high speed cable, not the ultra high speed cable that the Xbox Series X comes with. This is fine because the Xbox Series S only does up to 1440p gaming. But if you wanna also do HDR at 1440p, then this might be an additional purchase. I've been told that 120 frames per second will be mind-blowing, it'll be a huge jump from 60 frames per second and I will never wanna go back. But I tried it out, I
booted up Rainbow Six Siege because that's one of the games that supports 120 frames
per second gaming, and it's a shooter where
those frames matter. (laughs) The joke's on me, it doesn't have that update yet for 120 frames per second, so, we tried Gears 5, the
multiplayer only is 120 Hertz. Here, right, you see it in the
quick motions of the camera. But it took all that for me to see the wonders of 120 frames per second. There's definitely a difference, but I don't know if it's something that I personally would
wanna spend $500 on, and potentially more
to buy a TV or monitor that supports it. I have a whole video talking about how TV manufacturers are barely catching up with the new specs of these consoles. But what's more baffling to me is that there is not a monitor on the market currently today that can do 4K at 120 Hertz through HDMI 2.1. It doesn't exist. So I have the consoles, but I can't even upgrade my setup to utilize them yet. If 120 frames per second is something that you really care about, there are plenty of cheap, 1080p and even 1440p monitors that can do 120 Hertz through HDMI 2.0, which should be just fine, and I'll link those in
the description below. The last generation Xbox One X can also do 4K at 60 frames per second, but not many of the games support that. The hope is that the games
for the Series X will. It is a much more powerful console. The menu looks exactly the same, but you see it in the load times, in the way the console boots up. The Xbox One X also has
a QuickBoot feature, but the Series X boots
up significantly faster, even after you had just
unplugged the power. There's also the Quick Resume feature, which will treat your
games like they're apps that are open on your phone or something. This is a strange console generation because to me it doesn't
feel like there's any true next gen games that are worth
me trying out on this thing. We got Sonic Adventure 2 on here. My most anticipated
game to try out on here is Warzone because my Xbox One X is basically just a Warzone machine. Obviously there's a lot of
other technical features that are gonna make games
look amazing on this thing, but I feel like we're not gonna see that fully realized until we get
some exclusives on here, something closer to an exclusive. There's a lot of amazing details when you get into the nitty gritty, but just watch Digital Foundry for that. To me, it's $500 to see a
couple more rocks on the ground. So I honestly think most people shouldn't get these right now. I mean, I'm all for
early adoption, I do it. My philosophy is, you're
gonna get it eventually. But if you wanna save some money and you have a console already, almost everything will play just fine on your Xbox One X or S. Microsoft isn't really giving us that much to upgrade for, besides the fat graphics and the rate tracing and the spatial sound and all that technical bull(beep), that honestly shouldn't matter too much when you're just playing
Call of Duty with the bros. So what do you guys think
about the Xbox Series X or S? Your first impressions of it, your impressions of all the
reviews you've been seeing. What do you think about
it for early adopters? Is it for you? Leave it in the comments
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your buying decisions. Or really just provided you entertainment while you're endlessly
scrolling through Xbox videos, deciding whether or not you
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over on twitch.tv/wulffden and our live podcast that goes over on youtube.com/wulffdenpodcast, there is going to be a live demo of me playing around
with the Series X and S on that channel right now. So you can go check that out,
I'm messing round with it, setting up the S and
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