Opinion: Series-S is the absolute steal of the generation

Assuming that Microsoft doesn’t go an entire generation without exclusives outside Fable, Gears and Halo, I honestly believe getting a S-S is a great investment for people who are in between serious and non-serious gaming. Was looking at specs and everything between consoles and given the current technological environment, I really don’t think at the current moment, people care as much about rendering high fidelity games on an expensive TV as much as smooth frame rates and the ability to just enjoy their favorite titles without any problems on the surface level.

That being said, I believe the Series X will sell more at the beginning of the new generation but ultimately be outsold by Series S for a few reasons. I believe Microsoft is only putting out the X strictly for their exclusives. Even though it is a knock on microsoft, for what exclusives they will have such as fable, another gears and the obvious new Halo, I think that’s what they’re specifically making the console for. They’re optimizing the console strictly for the exclusives and anything else is window dressing as far as the other devs go like Naughty Dog and Ubisoft etc. So the S, for lack of a better word, I guess you could say is their “casual” console. Without turning your processor into an omelette, I believe you’d find it pretty hard to make a low grade custom PC with Series-S performance for the price of a base Switch to be honest. You can knock on the exclusives all you want but I’ll be damned if the Series-S isn’t a love letter to people who are on a budget or aren’t Nintendo/Sony people. Or even those who are and want game pass instead of Sony’s streaming service.

Also to note, it’s not like they’ll ever just take games off their library either. They’ll only ever keep adding games whether it be exclusives, gamepass or general multiplats.