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

Might pick one of these up! Liked!

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

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

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.

“Not gonna put discs in it that much”

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿😍😍😍😍🤤🤤🤤

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.

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.

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

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.

the perfect gamepass/emulation machine right now.

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

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)

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

Great naming strategy, even SpawnWave is confused

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

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.

New vids always make the day better! Tysm! ❤

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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

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 .

Merry Christmas SpawnWave and happy new year

The Sync button isn’t gloss. It’s a IR receiver for three media remote from the Xbox one era

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.

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

I love how quiet it is next to my PS5 disk

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! 😊

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

For the price and what it's capable of doing, it's really impressive.

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!

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

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

the design is simple but cool at the same time

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

12:52 Again we have a regular M.2 slot for the internal SSD. Someday people will figure out how to format these correctly and it will be pretty simple to upgrade Series S to an internal 2TB configuration.

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

Cant wait to get one of these.

Should be getting mine today. Thanx for the video!

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.

I wish they'd do a Series S with a disc drive. Would make a great 4K Blu-ray player that also plays games, if it were priced at like $349.

It’s disappointing how the new gen consoles approached the storage capacity’s all across the board.

Love the design of this and my Series X but I'd be so curious to see how small Microsoft could make an all digital Series X!??

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

Getting ready for that atari vcs review

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

I love this machine. I cant speak for the 4k capabilities but I wanted a machine to hook up to a mini 1080p monitor and the one s slays it on a small screen at 1080p. The price is ludicrous

That circle vent is a missed opportunity... they could have made it a giant xbox logo? In a matte finish it probably would have looked awesome

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.

I'm wondering if Microsoft would allow you to change the SSD in Series S and put a bigger one I changed the mechanical hard drive in the One X and put a SSD and it worked perfectly fine

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!!

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