Optical drives are pretty bulky and it also has an SSD which are tiny compared to mechanical HDD’s. That'd easily account for the smaller size. The One X was already the smallest Xbox despite being the most powerful yet still having a disc drive and a mechanical HDD.

Take a look at all the names the Nintendo DS/3DS line has had over the years. That didn’t stop them from selling 100+ million units. Series S/X is nowhere near as confusing as people are trying to make it out, especially when there’s a huge difference in price between the two. The layperson might not understand much…

Oh stop with the faux pearl clutching. You’re commenting on an enthusiast website, on an article specifically discussing the details of the Series S, you can’t possibly be that confused between the S and the X. Are they great names? No, but they are far from being as inscrutable as you’re making it out.

It does because it’s significantly overpriced at $60. I would have bought it at $30-$40, which is about what these titles would sell for on Virtual Console. I can’t get behind paying $20 for an untouched Mario 64 (especially if it doesn’t at least feature the extra DS content, not sure on that).

I’ve never bought into the artificial scarity thing. The 3DS and WiiU were never hard to get and neither was the GameCube. The 3DS sold so poorly they dropped the price quicker than they ever have. The scarcity thing only comes up when they happen to have an insanely popular product, which, duh. If it was artificial…

That’s because their line about exhausting all avenues is total BS. They could absolutely provide the update, they just don’t want to do so for free. They talk about not wanting to be able to do it without full parity... unless you’re on PC, then you can get it for free. That sounds more to me like they could do it on…

“I’m sure porting a recent game to next-gen isn’t a cake walk,”

You don’t have to have been around too many console launches to be hugely skeptical that the Dual Sense features are ever going to be utilized beyond the first year. Switch is capable of the “wave” across the controller that Spider-Man is doing and the Xbox One controller has resistive triggers that were used in Forza…

Got a link for that? If they had confirmed November they wouldn’t have continued to use Holiday 2020 throughout their entire showcase.

Such as? On rare occasion they might have Part I, definitely not often. I sure can’t think of any. It’s rare enough that something is announced as a series right from the beginning as it is. The most recent I can think of was the movie “IT” which was announced as two movies, but the first part was still just called…

Xbox hasn't confirmed a November release, they've only said Holiday 2020, same as Sony.

Why would they pay for exclusivity on next-gen only? Ps5 is backwards compatible so if the Ps4 version comes out at the same time it’s stopping exactly no one from playing it.

They put out FFXIII, XIII-2, and Lightning Returns (as well as FFXIV, twice) between 2009 and 2013. Granted, only one of those is widely considered to be good but considering that they got Part I out relatively quickly after it was brought in house in 2017, a 2022 release for Part II and 2024 release for Part III…

First entries don't usually have “Part I”. What else do you think they’d call it? They're not likely to just give it a subtitle, that would just confuse things when there gets to be 3 or more entries.

I don’t think the demos stop working after the week is over, so you should be able to claim them on xbox.com and remote install them or download them through My Games and Apps when you’re back home.

Not so sure. CD Projekt RED had said that the Series X update wasn’t going to be ready in time for the console launch and that was when the game was scheduled for September and they would have had the following two months to work on it. If it’s delayed overall now, I’d imagine that’d push the next-gen updates out even…

I see what you’re getting at, but if this had been a game during the PS3's prime, people would have said it looked like a PS2 game. It certainly doesn’t look like a good PS3 game. Deadly Premonition comes to mind.

Yeah, AC is a series that has largely depended on reusing a lot of the content from past games so it’s odd that they don’t keep the older puns and allow them to appear randomly. I appreciate that they write new ones each time but that means a lot of the better ones are left out.

Pricing it at $599 in 2020 would not be “pulling a PS3" either. They’d need to price it at $700-$800 for it to be the same level of jaw dropping that the PS3 was in 2006.

Nintendo doesn’t limit supply to create artificial demand, that’s one of the most ridiculous yet continually perpetuated myths in gaming. It completely ignores that they have had several systems (most recently the WiiU and 3DS) that bombed upon release and were never difficult to get. When they’ve had extreme…