I got a Series S and its so quiet vs my old 747 PS4.

I love how without the shell, it just looks like a large HDD.

I’m a PlayStation guy, but man the Series S and the GamePass are a really nice combo.

That might be ‘cheap’ packaging inside, but still secure and rigid enough to protect the console, and far more recyclable. Which is a good thing.

i'm a PS guy, but i love how MS engineered their consoles this gen, it looks so compact and efficient. i'll probably get an series S next year when halo or their other big hitters come out and supplies increase

If nobody in the comments has mentioned it, the sync button also acts as the IR receiver for the media remote controls, which is why it’s not a matte finish.

I love my Series S. It’s a perfect “cheap” next-gen console. Great for occasional game pass games and streaming. The big boy PS5 stays in the living room, but this is good for the bedroom

I feel like the Series S was an incredibly smart move on Microsoft's part. Not only does it give people a more affordable option, but the lower price also should get Sony and Nintendo leaning gamers to dip in more easily as a second or third console. I've personally never owned an Xbox system, but I've never been more interested... Assuming they can deliver the games in the next year or two.

I’ve had my S since Nov, first time back to Xbox since 360. I’m loving this thing, perfect for the TV I have as it’s not 4K. I have a 3TB external HD hooked up to it for the games I will play, and the games I’m playing on the internal SSD. I’m new to GamePAss as well and its an amazing service. So overall a PS guy that is now mainly playing his S, I give it a 9/10. I’m very happy with this thing.

When you consider the controller is $60 on its own the system is on $240. Thats crazy.

Haven't had an xbox since the 360, the series S has blown me away. I couldn't recommend this system more. Especially with all the scalping going on with the series X and PS5. Picked up Two of the series S on Amazon for a very good price. My wife was so impressed with the series S she had to have one too.

I used to have all the consoles growing up all the way to the GameCube. Then I went to college and I was distracted by women, beer, and trying to get good grades. I sold all my games and systems. Regret it hard now. Later I bought a Wii well after launch and mostly played Galaxy on it and Mario kart with the wife. Fast forward to 2018 and I’m convincing my son that he might want a Nintendo switch for Christmas. I love the switch and it lit the gamer spark in me again. I said all that to say I missed out on the ps3 ps4 and Xbox 360 and one eras of gaming. Just before Christmas I won a Xbox series s! For many of you it’s not much of an upgrade maybe, but for me huge. Game pass is amazing. I’m playing forza, Jedi fallen order, ori. My son and I can play Minecraft dungeons together. Games look great. So much fun. I’ll get a ps5 eventually, but to be honest I’m not in a hurry now. And I’m bouncing back and forth from switch and Xbox and wow those load times.

I love my Series S. Got it on launch day since I couldn't get an X and couldn't be happier. I've already taken it on a couple of trips so definitely good for traveling.

When Sony does a less powerful console next gen I promise everyone will praise it more than they did for Xbox.

For $299, this thing is amazing. I have an XSX but I'm fascinated as to what this thing can do for the price.

Just got mine today via FedEx. Can't go back to the Xbox One again. It's amazing how fast it is for the price of $300.

Microsoft has killed it this year in terms of budget and performance

*KFC:* Yeah but can you heat your chicken in it?

Might pick one of these up! Liked!

I bought the PS5 and the Series S this season. My son and I spent the vast majority of the weekend playing the Series S. It's a great system when combined with the game pass. I also particularly like the Xbox app. I'm sure the PS5 will become better over time, but Microsoft seems to be in a pretty strong position currently.

2:45 "it's right next to the One X" me: I am confusion

The Series S might be the best console on the market right now when you check the big picture.

“Not gonna put discs in it that much”

Spectacular combined with my year and a half left of Gamepass at $1 per month. And the storage isn't a problem as you can still use your external hard drive and transfer games to and fro in seconds.

I’m tempted to go for the S over the X... I love how portable the little guy is and if my wife wants to watch something it would take zero effort to move it to the other room.

I love my Series S, had it since November 14th, it rekindled my love for racing games, it feels like your really driving, I haven't been this excited playing since the arcade days in the 90s.

I’m a PS guy but I bought a series S for game pass. Loving it!!

Can we talk about the design? The person who thought of it needs a raise I mean that design is just 👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿😍😍😍😍🤤🤤🤤

I just got one from best buy. Running cyberpunk alot better unfortunately it still crashed 1 time but most the bugs and freezes haven't happened since i switched over to the series s

Got a SX for me and a SS for the wife. No complaints here at all. Gamepass is a hell of a deal for us

The first time i see that “speaker” i hate it, now i love the design.

Im so impressed with the modular built, so 'clean' looking, no wires to manage, nothing dangling, its just beautifully built

My son absolutely loves his, im very impressed especially with game pass

the sync button isn't glossy actually. Thats where you can use the remote to control movies.

I got my Series S for Christmas and love it. MSFS 2020 comes out tomorrow and I’m hyped beyond belief. The only downside is the small storage capacity, with it being an all-digital console. 9/10

Considering that the systems biggest weakness is the small storage space, having a modular ssd does show that Microsoft has thought of plan to fix the issue in the future without replacing the entire console.

I have a series x but oddly want a series s. Its the best looking console out of all the new systems. I bought one for my stepson and its a very small and nice looking console.

I think out of all the new consoles, the xbox series s is the best designed one.

I love my Series S, Microsoft really hit it out of the park with a great balance of quality/cost. I do wish it would have shipped with more storage, but that’s easily upgraded.

Looking at the way Cyberpunk performs on the Series S vs the One X, you can see how the Series S was designed in order to not hold the Series X back. It will be easier for the developers to simply scale down resolution rather than to have to scale down effects and the overall environment scale.

New vids always make the day better! Tysm! ❤

the perfect gamepass/emulation machine right now.

"Put discs in and out of it that much" lol You won't put discs in it at all lolz

Bought it. Awesome console. Being mostly PS consumer I found this baby perfect for my first introduction to MS.

The amount of people talking about stuff they don't know about is SO infuriating. No, it's not going to hold back developers. Old PC's hold back developers more than the series s does and will. No, the lower graphics aren't gonna matter because guess what? Most of the people getting this are casual gamers or budget gamers. They aren't gonna care about 4K graphics. They'll be satisfied with 1080p. And no, storage isn't going to be a GIANT issue. It is definitely an issue, but so far, the storage has been fine. I just uninstall games I don't like or barley play and I'm good.

It really reminds me of the Wii especially when it's positioned vertically. A bit thicker tho 😅

Love the dots/dashes pattern below the ports on the back so you can identify with the finger. Underappreciated

I was expecting that it was going to be harder to remove the outer shell but since you've show us that it was easy, I can now easily paint the shell to my liking. This really helped.

I own both and every time I look at the series S it makes me smile, because how small it is.

I'm loving my Series S so far. I like the look of it too. It's a great companion device to have along with a PS5 imo.

I love the way you dismantled and explained things with your personal comments as you went along. I could see you as the cool electronics professor in school the way you share your knowledge. Do you think you would try to copy the little 512GB drive to a larger 1 or 2TB NVMe drive. If not is that something MS would have put protections in place to prevent owners from doing on their own? I hope you have a great New Year.

Putting the bumps under the ports on the back so you can tell what they are is so genius.

2:44 Even people who knows the difference, mix up these names. Great job, Microsoft!

Looks like a 1950's speaker for my vinyl record turn table.

Merry Christmas SpawnWave and happy new year

Don’t forget retroarch. You can pretty much game from 1st to 6th console generation of games in addition to next gen, current gen, and 7th gen (360 games)

Can’t get a PS5 or XSX but I picked this one up from target and hot damn the SSD makes a big difference compared to the last gen consoles.

As someone who's always been a PS/Nintendo guy, I think it's safe to say the Series S is gonna be my first Xbox purchase whenever I can track one down.

I’m going to buy this instead of the series X.

Picked on up at Best Buy today.. it’s a sleek little machine. Great tear down, 👍🏻you always make it look easy ..

I got the series S and I absolutely love it, I had gotten it to get my foot into the next gen door until the ps5 slim or Spider-Man 2 releases

I've got my series s on a watt meter, and I'm very impressed with its power draw. For example Nier Automata is about 54W, and the Touryst (4K 60FPS) is around 69W.

I was lucky enough to spot that the UK Microsoft Store had some in stock yesterday. I ordered one straight away, and I can’t wait for it to get here! 😊

Should be getting mine today. Thanx for the video!

Great naming strategy, even SpawnWave is confused

The series s is incredible I was blown away at how great it is for the price which is rare now a days

Man! that was scary to watch you pulling it apart! lol but obviously you know what you're doing. Interesting to watch. Mine arrives in a couple of days and now I know what the inside looks like! :)

Got lucky and got one of the last Series S on stock at a shop and all I can say is I’m loving it!! The speed and quick resume is fascinating and the load times are super quick! The performance is beautiful as well and it’s small and compact and silent, my storage is not yet full as I have about 8-9 games, some are small and some are big but I will be looking to purchase the Seagate expansion card soon because I’m playing with game pass, all I can say is that I’m happy I got the Series S, it’s phenomenal, and the controller is good as well!

Here we go with the “just buy a PC” comments. Funny how every PS owner is a hardcore PC gamer. 😂😂😂

The new microsoft consoles sure got some neat looking internals. I would get the S but I want that disc reader for backwads compaitiblity and movies.

Just got mine, they’re restocking every few days, some stores have 100+ consoles

I just noticed the bumps below the ports on the back in another video on it but it seems like one of those little things that is actually a massive qol change

I've got a PS5 as my main 4K console and I have one of these as my game pass machine. I love it in all honesty. Such a good build and looks so cool. It's lightning fast and feels good enough as a jump from the old Xbox systems due to it. Hated the lag in the old Xbones.

Bought mine a couple of days ago in the UK.£249/$300 I must say I'm very very impressed 🔥 Upgrading to an expansion card in time. Loving the 60fps on optimized series X/S Games . Hopefully they will get more games redy for next gen consoles .

Update to my previous posts: I did go ahead and get the Series S for my birthday last month. I love my new console. I have installed 6 games on it and still have over 200 GB storage left on it. I’m very happy with it. I also signed up for GamePass and am very happy with that too.

I’m not a computer hardware engineer so I can only imagine making the console compact like this comes with many unknown challenges but I LOVE IT. Since it’s a console that isn’t portable it shouldn’t matter too much but for some reason I LOVE IT. I think it’s cool that you can take this anywhere and play games with more power than an Xbox one x

“It’s pretty solid” *proceeds to throw it* lmao

the design is simple but cool at the same time

I love how quiet it is next to my PS5 disk

I got one in early December and I love it. Power at a very affordable price point. I have a XB1 S as well. I ran Star Wars Battlefront 2 in a side-by-side comparison for start-up times. It took 1:56 for the 1S to boot up, load, and connect to the servers. It took the Series S a total of 8 seconds. Also, the 1S was from the internal hard drive, while the Series S was from an external hard drive (limited space is the only negative). I presume if it were on the internal hard drive it would have gone even faster... but... most bull rides don’t last 8 seconds, so I don’t feel a need to rush it. One other difference I notice is with download times when I get games. The Series S takes about 1/3 less time to get games than my 1S. It has been that way with every game I’ve installed on both machines.

Cant wait to get one of these.

Getting ready for that atari vcs review

The sync button is glossy so you can use the media remote for the xbox one, it is an IR receiver. Edit: The Series X is also the same with the glossy sync button.

I got one for my younger brother at launch and almost got one for myself after I listened to how quiet it ran and how slick and compact the console looked. Love my PS5, but the Series S is a beautiful console.

Can you use the 1TB SSD from the Series X in the Series S maybe?

as someone who dosent care about specs and just wanted a next gen console. i love my series s

9:40 that’s actually an exhaust port for when the top vent is blocked

That masterchief funny as hell on the psu 😂

Really interesting system, I question that they're losing more money on the S though considering the RAM, SSD and massive GPU difference.

I love how the SouthBridge literally says Xbox One on it.

5:10 Not gonna put a disc in that much? I'm curious at the times where one do have to put a disc in.

ive endearingly named mine the stovebox as it looks like a portable campfire stove

"Yes you can see they put these bumps in the back so you know where what is." Cries in braille.

i love my series S. i’ll maybe get a series X later, when they drop in price. for now tho the series S is great.

Got this and a WD-B 1 tb drive as a deal from a game stop for around 260$, story told to me was the original owner got it on accident and returned it in like 3 days after buying. This, the drive, and a Zelda coffee mug made the best 300$ I ever spent in one day

I love it so far, I ordered it at Walmart on December 10th had no expectations as to when I would get it. Then much to my surprise it showed up the day after Christmas!!

I always buy every system so I think I’ll get this one, I only have a few disks for Xbox one now all my games are for PS3-4. I got game pass and tried it out so far I like it. I was always a big disk collector guy but after my Skyrim disk was eaten or destroyed somehow by my laser in one I’m not a disk fan

I’ve got the Series S. It’s working great.

Thanks for the video man! I watched it on December 2021 to decide if I should get one, and I decided to do it. And I have to say, it is a pretty awesome gamepass machine. The 2k resolution scales really well on the 4k TV (50 inch) I have at home, to the point that I can barely notice the difference in resolution most of the time. Gamepass is a great library, and, if I have to complain about something, it would be the storage, I really wish it was larger. But otherwise I really appreciate it, and for the price, considering the equivalent GPU for a gaming PC right now goes for about $500, it is just a great deal. I would recommend it for anyone that wants to get into current gen gaming without dumping too much money into it. I will say... you start to notice the difference between 2k and 4k resolution with screens that are about 55" or 60", but if you don't have one of those, it really is not an issue

I just realized something I've never seen a Bluetooth adapter for Windows that has a sync button on it. You always have to go and click on the button in the notification tray