Pre order (01/09) - Xbox Series S 1TB + Extra Carbon Black Controller

Though I own a series s. If your in the hunt for a next gen console. Then personallly recommended the ps5 disk or digital.

Fair few Devs have complained about the series s and Microsoft parity for it. Look at Boulders Gate 3. Releasing on PS5 this month and potentially delayed until next year for Xbox series X and s because of the S.

*disc drive still not included

Hopefully they'll now do a white Series X in the not so distant future.

I feel like you should be able to shop around and get a Series X or PS5 (probably digital) for another £50 ish, and they'll perform noticably better (albeit that they wouldn't come with the additional controller). (edited)

This is overpriced.

You can get a used Series X for around that price.

And I used Series S for below £150

I personally would go PS5 digital or save for a series x games on this already are being capped at 30fps.

Seems overpriced at this point, second controller included. Poorer value compared to the more powerful machines today. Bit more expensive but a lot more powerful, with a disc drive to boot. Easily makes up for that pretty modest price differential. Cheaper used games and resale value.

When the gap was £200 between £250 Series S and £450 Series X on launch and you had no bundles or discounts or used hardware then OK. It was understandable to make a case for that Series S. Even better when used examples/deals started to appear around £200.

But now with this new £300 model it is closer in price difference to the better machines. This Series S at £300 albeit with an extra controller, or a Series X bundle at £475 with a new £60 game like Diablo 4.

A used warrantied Series X is also what, under £400 regularly?

So that gap in value between this Series S and X is now smaller than it ever was. Makes this S look less attractive to my eyes. You still only get the low end chipset with cut down visuals and 30FPS caps but you're closer to full X pricing. (edited)

Have a Series X already, and considered having one of these for convenience given my son has the standard Series S, and was surprised how small and light they are given obvious components not part of the innards. Currys owe me 10% off an order for a messed up Xbox SSD order a few months ago, so may still consider it.

That said, I'd like to add a PS5 to the collection being more of a PlayStation person before, but the potential Pro model next year would be of far more interest.

Supporting the S is now holding developers back, 300 seems a lot for what you’re actually getting.

These things are so robust. I’d shop around for a 512gb model for £150 Inc Controller second hand.

Use £50 to get an external drive to shuttle games to/from the hyper fast internal SSD.

new slightly smaller ps5 launching this year with slits on the side - i'd wait for this as Sony will probably hit a £349 price point.

Do amazon take payment now or later?

Might aswell pay extra £70 and get ps5 disk version,some cracking deals at the moment.Watching digital foundry over the weekend,a few devs struggling to get the performance already, out of series s for many next gen games.