I had the series s for a couple years until I could afford a PS5 and it let a working class chick like myself enjoy current games on a budget. I still have it, and while I don’t use it as much I’ll still admit a series s and game pass is a god send for those of us who love to game but have other financial obligations and can’t afford the beefier consoles ATM. (Or a capable gaming pc)
I realize Microsoft is a shit company, but I do think the series s is good for what it is.
Sucks that a vocal minority of idiot gamersTM complain about it “holding consoles back”
These are the people who only have video games in their lives and nothing else
Rant over. Much love ❤️
triple A games are IMO so washed now that power hungry hardware is completely unnecessary. I’m not paying 60 bucks to buy into a slot machine or dopamine treadmill. The budget consoles are all you need for all the best games anyway
Catch me playing Caves of Qud for 2000 hours and never going back.
The PS5 is nice for playing the last decade of PS4 games at 60fps, it’s been 4 years and PS5 games still pretty much don’t exist.
There was Demon’s Souls… And that’s literally all I can think of.
Astrobot!
The thing is also just such an obvious console to make, with how many people are still on decade old 1080p screens, why waste all that power and silicon
I think it’s great too. Speaking from the point of view of a couple of years ago, you could get a Series S for relatively cheap, use the conversion trick to get two years of Game Pass Ultimate for next to nothing and you have a great library of games for two years. If you cannot afford the games after that you can keep the console around or pawn it off.
Series S seem to get a bad rap because some AAA games didn’t run well on it. Most notably BG3. But most AAA publishers will figure out a way to turn any game into a 15fps slideshow even on a NASA quantum computer.
Yeah it was a god send. It’s all I could afford when elder ring came out, and I wasn’t about to play it on Ps4 and Indeed get 15fps. Wasn’t until a couple years later I had the money for a ps5
I don’t think Microsoft is “good guy” or anything. Just this was a good thing, I think allowing room for a budget console in the eco system is a good thing. Even if a vocal minority wine about it. Most developers have came out and said it’s fine and the games just may look and run a little worse but not totally compromise the whole experience.
I’m just praising it for sustaining my gaming habit when i was dead broke
Series S’ problem is more of a developer facing/Microsoft policy issue from what I understand. For BG3, Black Myth Wukong, etc., sounds like there’s a parity requirement where the games need to have a similar level of functionality which devs have a hard time meeting. (and then the fans complain)
I think it makes a lot of sense though as a platform, especially as AAA loses its luster. I don’t see consoles having much of a market at the upper price range in the future.
Funny too, since the real thing holding back this generation seems to be AAA still shipping on PS4.
I don’t like how it fragments the userbase.
What do you mean?
It doesn’t. Aside from some gamersTM whining about it.
How is this true in any way?
Explain what you mean?
The games run and look a bit worse, but that’s about it.
Even Baldurs gate 3 is perfectly playable and enjoyable on a Series S just with a crappier frame rate.
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more or less what I was going to say
