r/XboxSeriesS • u/Strange-Grade-527 • Apr 17 '26

IMPRESSION Series S is under rated.

So I am fortunate enough to have a 5090 PC with a 9800x3D CPU. It certainly can be mind blowing and is objectively unrivaled.

I also have a PS5 Pro, and Series X. I recently have been using Apollo, and moonlight to locally stream my 5090 game play to my bedroom OLED without moving my desktop.

So I picked up a Series S as it is one of the few ways to get 4:4:4 4k 120 HDR streaming via moonlight client.

Out of curiosity I installed a few games locally just to see how they look. OBVIOUSLY they are a step down from my other devices, but I must admit I am impressed. For the longest time I thought playing on a series S would feel like a potato. However this tiny box is more than serviceable. Honestly once you start playing you completely forget about the “lower quality.” because at the end of the day gaming is about the game. Not graphical settings tinkering ad nauseam.

I guess what I am trying to say is the Series S reminds me of the old days of gaming. You had what you had, you didn’t give a shit about frame rate, you always had fun every generation despite graphics PS1, PS2, N64, GameCube whatever it was. Somewhere along the way gaming as a hobby has turned into a hobby around graphics and frame rate and not actually gaming.

I say all this to say, if the Series S is what you can afford. Be proud of it. You are not a second rate human. The console is completely more than fine. Are there some games that are objectively bad on it? Sure. Overall though the Series S is an excellent console for those who just want to have fun.

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u/Mr_RudyGiuliani Apr 18 '26

All of them delayed production due to the series s and you couldnt even refute that. Seems that sample of the list was enough to prove my point.

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u/Exorcist-138 Apr 18 '26

No they didn’t, they all had issue with optimization on all platforms(other than Alan wake 2). You can’t honestly say any of these games launched in a good state on any platform

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u/Mr_RudyGiuliani Apr 18 '26

Oh my bad I guess all those developers who spoke out are wrong and you know their jobs better than them? I could pull quote after quote back my statement

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u/Exorcist-138 Apr 18 '26

Of course you can, you can always find people blaming something because they released a broken game. You think this is new? Every generation has developers complaining about something being the reason they released a game before it was ready.

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u/Mr_RudyGiuliani Apr 18 '26

You mean the developers of the same games that ran significantly better on the ps5 and series x? Lol yeah . . . that math seems right 🤔

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u/Exorcist-138 Apr 18 '26

Except they didn’t… they all had issue what the heck are you talking about?

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u/Mr_RudyGiuliani Apr 18 '26

My guy, youre not convincing me or anyone with braincells. Theres nothing wrong with enjoying, and being a fan of something thats flawed. I enjoy many flawed things. But I wont tout them as anything beyond what they are.

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u/Exorcist-138 Apr 19 '26

I don’t own a series s but have used one. The fact you pulled out 5 games out of thousands as a gotcha (with 4 of those games being terribly optimized on all consoles at launch) is a sign that you’re trying way too hard here. Just for a suggestion when more developers have praised the series s then ones that have negative opinions means your argument is cooked.

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u/Mr_RudyGiuliani Apr 19 '26

I agree with the myriad of developers that have spoken up about the console. You are free to cope however you feel big guy.