Son_of_Zardoz
Banned
Series S is a genius idea. It won't hold back the generation much as it's targeting 1080p, heck if it struggles they can even do checkerboard 1080p. There are a ton of people that don't give 2 shits about resolution and just want to play the latest game with the latest features. I know plenty of people who bought a regular PS4 or Xbox One S for their 4K TVs and they don't care. Also there are plenty of people who also have small TVs and sit far that can't even tell the difference.
People will eat crow I expect Series S will outsell Series X when the generation is over. There are plenty of people who don't mind saving an extra $150 and take a hit on resolution.
As for devs having to optimise for this system, they are already doing this with One X and One S and different PC configurations, they will adjust and in fact they will benefit as more people will be able to play their games due to having affordable next gen system.
This is coming from a PlayStation fan and I am likely going to buy a PS5, but competition is great for everyone, if Series S sells great due to cheap price it can potentially cause Sony to drip the price of PS5 sooner.
Exactly, and later in the lifecycle they can drop the resolution even more and make up for it with the various reconstruction techniques. I had said in the other thread that XSS will be great for me, mainly for my kids' systems when it's time to upgrade from their X1s, but I also have friends that don't really care about buying premium consoles and never upgraded from their launch consoles.
I'm not really worried about this at all, but there seems to be a lot of concern trolling going on. I guess maybe the XSS could hold back the XSX just enough to put it on equal footing with the PS5.