Here's my stream of consciousness upon reading this post and trying to make sense of things. I am having to coach myself through understanding these, like some kind of technophobe grandpa.
Right - so the "XBO line" is the Xbox One, the Xbox One S, and the Xbox One X. I think I am understanding now that all 'next gen' games are compatible with these. I've looked some up on Amazon and on the boxes for these now have additional messaging saying "Xbox Series X - Xbox One". Are they now going to change it again before release to "Xbox Series X/S - Xbox One"? My expectation is that if new games are aiming to make use of the shiny new piece of hardware that's way more powerful, we're now ushering in a new age of games running like dog plops for people on the "XBO" line of hardware, though, despite it being the prominent branding on the box.
I've seen various people taking the piss out of Halo Infinite's graphics, so I get the drift of what's being suggested here. I am assuming this is just early-in-dev, poorly curated screenshots though, or bad art assets, rather than an actual condemnation of the power of the Series X, right?
Is it going to be just visuals, or actual performance though? I get what you're saying though, that the Xbox Series S is a non-upgrade, particularly for people that bought a Xbox One X. I had to correct this twice because I referred to the latter system as the "Xbox One Series X", and the former as the "Xbox One Series S".
Do you mean the Xbox One X? Is this not the one that they have forcibly removed from sale?
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What I'm trying to get at here, is that I am struggling to make sense of these different product lines and their purpose, and think the naming is confusing. This is multitudes worse than "my non-gaming relative got confused between a Wii and WiiU in Game". Sorry, but iPhones (higher number = better) aren't a good equivalent, and though crap naming conventions in graphics cards / CPUs are a given, this is one of many reasons that people buy consoles rather than spending weeks researching what parts they need to buy for a computer. I thought "Xbox Series X" was bad enough, but if we're adding an "Xbox Series S" into the mix too, they really need to improve the branding / messaging around these.
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What I'm trying to get at here, is that I am struggling to make sense of these different product lines and their purpose, and think the naming is confusing. This is multitudes worse than "my non-gaming relative got confused between a Wii and WiiU in Game". Sorry, but iPhones (higher number = better) aren't a good equivalent, and though crap naming conventions in graphics cards / CPUs are a given, this is one of many reasons that people buy consoles rather than spending weeks researching what parts they need to buy for a computer. I thought "Xbox Series X" was bad enough, but if we're adding an "Xbox Series S" into the mix too, they really need to improve the branding / messaging around these.
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