With the announcement of the Xbox Series
X, there were multiple rumours of Microsoft working on a smaller, less powerful
console. Microsoft has now confirmed these rumours by revealing the Xbox Series
S in a tweet. It is the smaller sibling to Series X and Microsoft has even
announced its price — US$ 299 in the US and £ 249.99 in UK.
The announcement comes after a leak by
Twitter user @_h0x0d_, who showed a video render of the Xbox Series S’ design
and size in comparison to the Series X. In the video, we can clearly see the
size difference between the two consoles, with the Series S being more than 50%
smaller than its bigger sibling.
Regarding its performance, we do not have
much information as of yet, however considering its size difference and given
that the Series X is targeted towards 4K 60FPS gaming, we can assume that the
Series S will likely target 1080p 60FPS gaming. We can also be sure that the
Series S will run a GPU based on AMD’s RDNA architecture and have the super
fancy NVMe storage drives. Microsoft has promised that they will reveal more
details soon.
The Xbox Series S at US$ 299 is same as the
launch price as its current generation Xbox One S. If Microsoft follows the
same pricing strategy, the more powerful Series X will likely cost US$ 499,
although there have been rumours of Microsoft announcing a higher price tag.
These are rumoured to launch on November 10th.
