It is to gaming what Spotify is to music, or Netflix to television. Whether you buy an Xbox Series S or X, Game Pass is going to be a big part of your future. Because the Xbox Series S is all about Game Pass. Or rather, how it encourages you to not buy games at all. The Series S is for those who don't have a setup designed to extract every last pixel.Īnd this is reflected in the way it makes you buy games. The Series X is for people with a dedicated home-entertainment setup: the 4K TV, the Dolby Atmos sound, the gaming headphones and probably some flashing RBG lights in the mix. Read more: Best gaming accessories to give as holiday giftsĪs that price indicates, this is a console for more casual players. But at $300, £250 and AU$499, it's not as expensive as you'd expect a next-generation gaming console to be. Unlike its bigger, bulkier sibling, it has no disk drive and, maxing out at 1440p, can't play games in 4K. Launching on Tuesday, the Xbox Series S is a smaller, less powerful, cheaper version of the Xbox Series X. It's a perfect metaphor for what the Series S is all about.
The games CNET was sent for review weren't yet activated, so to test the Xbox Series S I decided to find something on Microsoft's subscription service, Game Pass. It's not because I had a burning desire to once again rescue the Seven Princesses of Heart. Can you guess the first game I played on the Xbox Series S? It wasn't Assassin's Creed Valhalla or Watch Dogs: Legion.
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