That being said, it’s still a bad take. My Xbox One S, which I recently replaced with a Series S, still runs AAA games pretty darn well. There are a couple of notable exceptions like Cyberpunk 2077, but otherwise, it held up pretty well for as long as I was playing it.

I’m pretty sure the Xbox One S performs the same as the original launch model Xbox One (which is what I have) and with that model I rarely have performance issues. Control, RE2/3/8 and Halo Infinite have all played just fine for me.

I played Resident Evil 8 on my launch model Xbox One and had no issues. Halo Infinite has largely been the same. I admittedly don’t play a lot of the big games these days but all the ones I’ve played over the last year or two have played well on my original Xbox One.

It was also 100 dollars more expensive and appeared to be much weaker since it had to run kinnect all the time. Once the s cane along several years later it became a real competitor, but by then it was too late.

The article was about the Xbox One S. I assumed performance issues were in reference to that model. My base PS4 was the same way. Control was basically unplayable for me after a bit. 

As others have pointed out, Xbox One had a lousy PR rollout. And IMO adding $100 to the price for the (mandatory) Kinect was an unwise move. They should have had two SKUs for that; one for an XB1 and one for an XB1 w/Kinect.

It just seems... Unnecessary. The only two things they use to drag the One is that it had bad marketing at the beginning of the generation (which they course corrected on pretty damn fast), and because it maybe sounded like it struggles to play games that came out at the end of the life cycle, which always happens as…

No kidding. The console that brought us GamePass “sucked”? This has been my primary gaming machine for the last 7 years. Between GamePass and Cloud Gaming, I’m in no hurry to update to the Series X.

Why are we just now hearing that production on the Xbox One S ended over a year ago?

Played Resident Evil 8 on the Xbox One X and experienced no problems. Have no idea where “Toward the end of its run, if you played a glossy AAA game, you could almost feel the thing wheezing under the pressure” came from.

Maybe you were trying to play on an original xbox?

Well, this is a stupid take.  

Even having been lucky enough to get an XSX near launch, I still quite miss the Xbox One’s HDMI pass-through and the ability to use Kinect for voice controls. So take your “Xbox One sucked,” turn it sideways, and cram it in your kiester.

Props for reporting on this - I wouldn’t have heard about it otherwise. It’s good to see that most industries are pulling back the shades on sexual harassment and assault right now.

This 100%. I’m all for Google and every other browser out there blocking goddamn autoplay bullshit. I still use NoScript on FF because it allows me to block EVERYTHING (and if a site won’t load because I blocked all of its ads, then it’s a site I never return to).

It’s the top banner ad that kills me, for whatever reason there’s always a delay in it loading, so I’ll start reading, then suddenly text will jump down as the ad loads in. I absolutely understand that they feel their revenue is threatened, but instead of trying to convince readers that a very good thing is a very bad…

It’s interesting they even run these hypocritical articles anymore?

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