Xbox Series S Was 'Black Friday's Most Popular Console' (videogameschronicle.com) 39
Microsoft's $300 Xbox Series S was the most popular console during Black Friday, it's been claimed. From a report: According to Adobe's Digital Economy Index data, the cheaper Series S outsold both PS5, Switch OLED Model and the more expensive Xbox Series X during the biggest holiday sale day of the year. Adobe claims its data comes from analysing 1 trillion visits to retail sites, in addition to surveying over 1,000 retailers on their most popular items. If accurate, a key element of Series S's popularity is likely that, unlike the highly sought-after PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, Series S has been widely available to purchase during Black Friday week. At the time of publishing, it's still in stock at many retailers.
Only one in stock. (Score:4, Informative)
Of course it was the most popular. All the other consoles weren't available in any amounts that actually matter.
"Oxygen most popular breathable gas".
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This. I have a PS5 and 4 different people asked me to sell it if I knew where to get more. The Series S is desperate parents coming up short. Why Xbox and not PlayStation 4? 4 5 and everybody knows that. Microsoft has bad sequence of names. Xbox. Xbox 360. Xbox one. Xbox S, Xbox X. It is easy to confuse which one your kid wants. Not so with Play station. PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5. Pretty strait forward.
Not only this but many kids already have the PS/4 where the Xbox S is at least something new and shiny that can play all the latest games. To my knowledge there are not any games that play on the Xbox X that don't play on the Xbox S.
Physical games (Score:2)
Less and less an issue. Fading into oblivion.
Digital games in relation to the SSD size might seem to make it less sensible... except that you can add an external drive if it really is an issue.
It's just not that big a deal.
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Besides most kids have a poor ability to properly enunciate even within their teen years. I am sure for a parent listening to a kid hearing they want an Xbox Ekss vs an XBox ess it would sound very similar. To people like me (who are not with-it, on the consoles of the time) will probably see that the stores have XBox S and I would pick it up thinking I got a good deal, on the newest Console out there. (Granted I am a tech guy, so Ill probably actually research it a bit more to see what is out there, bu
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IDK, all the guys at work that have kids play the same consoles the kids play. Pretty sure they know what systems have been out and what is the best new thing to buy.
Otherwise, maybe try, oh I don't know, talking to your kids....Crazy idea, I know.
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Well that is a lesson Elon Musk learned the hard way with its Model 3, Production is hard, A key element towards design, is designing the product so it can be manufactured quickly and reliability. Which is often why a lot of the new gizmos out there are able to be easily opened up. Screws take a lot of time to get onto a product, and can be prone to errors and stripping, while glue or snap in fasteners do the job faster with less error in manufacturing.
Also being that this is a Video Game console, during
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Oxygen most popular breathable gas
If that's the case, why do people breathe far more nitrogen than oxygen?
Nitrogen is breathable in the same way that sand is edible. Yes, you can eat sand but it has no nutritional value. We do inhale nitrogen because it's there but it's inert and has nothing to do with the respiration process. 100% nitrogen will quietly and instantly kill you. You won't even realize you're suffocating until it's too late. Humans also can do just fine on 0% nitrogen. There are plenty of other inert gases that we can breath just fine as a replacement for nitrogen. You can also breath pure
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Nitrogen is like all that garbage you get pre-installed on OEM PCs. It's there but it's pointless.
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You're likely inhaling much more nitrogen than oxygen. The atmosphere is about 78% Nitrogen and 21% Oxygen. Too much oxygen can actually be fatal, so you really don't want too much oxygen in the air you breath.
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May I suggest you look up "oxygen toxicity" or "oxygen poisoning"?
Too much of a good thing really can be bad, perhaps even lethal.
Here to help (Score:1)
Data is sus. (Score:2)
A trillion visits? Really? So 130 visits by every human on the planet?
That's hard to believe.
Easy to Believe (Score:2)
A trillion visits? Really? So 130 visits by every human on the planet?
Hard to believe? Allow me to introduce you to my friend Mr Scalper Bot.
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I believe it. Folks have been running stock checker bots against any site that sells the Xbox Series X for over a year now. Those hits by themselves probably count in the tens of millions a day.
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Pretty sure if I worked at a video game store and an Xbox X actually showed up, I'd just buy at retail and flip it for a shit load more then the typically person could make WORKING at a video game store.
Confused Parents (Score:2)
This was most likely due to parents purchasing the Series S thinking they were getting the Series X.
MS definitely named them similarly on purpose.
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It's not a terrible game console, though. I like the size of it, and games look noticeably better than the Xbox One that I replaced it with.
Besides, we seem to be moving to a future where you stream games from a cloud service instead of playing them directly from your device. If that holds true, it's lack of storage and onboard GPU processing horsepower compared to the Series X becomes a non issue.
Good deal - console emulation and controller (Score:1)
* Insurance for Xbox exclusives, even if graphics are a bit reduced
* Xbox controller to be used for PC, where it has great user friendliness
* Can install emulation software and run a lot of emulators
* About a third of the price of a graphics card
XBox has the better games pass + 2nd console (Score:3)
Even if the pandemic + trade war hadn't messed up supply chain issues, it had a lot going for it, especially as a 2nd console. Being so cheap, I can imagine a lot of PS Fanboys buying one for those exclusives they can't get on their PS5...or a console for grandma's or their divorced dad's house
Hell, I imagine they marketed it as a way for your kids to play Minecraft and roblox and get off your laptop, it would sell even better. Get more good family games on it and it would be unstoppable.
We've never seen a new generation console introduced cheaply enough that it could be bought on whim or as a secondary console with little pain.
Every gamer will want a PS5 or XSX as their primary console, but a bunch, particularly those with kids or who spend a lot of time in 2 locations, are probably eyeing the XSS.
Where's the Quest (Score:2)
Sadly there's no data on the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2. I know it sits on your face, but it is still basically a console and is better than all of these.
Hmm... (Score:1)
What graphics card is in a XB-S and how difficult would it be to rip it out and use it in a real PC?
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What graphics card is in a XB-S and how difficult would it be to rip it out and use it in a real PC?
It's a SOC so no separate GPU.
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Then what is it good for?
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I already got that on my PC. With the bonus that it can do more than that.
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No, but then again, the average game costs way less than 80 bucks.
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If I rent games, I'd at least expect to decide myself what games I'd want to rent.