A few weeks ago the CEO of NVIDIA presented the new GeForce RTX 3080 through a live broadcast that hid a surprise, and that is that the graphics card was present throughout the broadcast hidden in a plane of the camera. Did you find it original? Well, wait until you find out what Microsoft did several months ago.
Microsoft teased the Xbox Series S a long time ago
Rumored for months, the smallest xbox that has ever been made was in front of us during all this time. You only have to go back to a couple of interviews conducted in June and July.
On the one hand, during the Gamelab conferences held in June, the Microsoft executive was interviewed by Seth Schiesel to discuss the news that the new generation will bring to the industry, a video broadcast live on June 24 and in which I could see behind Phil Spencer some shelves with books and a white box that now makes all the sense in the world.
As if that were not enough, good old Spencer decided to show it once more in another later interview, in this case on the iJustine Podcast, Same brain, where the manager returned to place the small console in the same place on the shelf, revealing much more on this occasion the circular black grille that so characterizes the console.
Xbox itself confirmed it via Twitter with a nice tweet.
Fun fact: Xbox Series S is so small @XboxP3 had it sitting on his bookshelf back on July 1 and nobody noticed.
Did you spot it @SethSchiesel? pic.twitter.com/6Z83TLCW1F
- Xbox (@Xbox) September 11, 2020
A console to jump
Microsoft has revealed that the intention of Xbox series s It is none other than putting an end to that hard time of making the leap to the new generation, basically because of the high price that it entails. After learning that users pay more attention to the frame rate per second than to the resolution, they thought it appropriate to bring to life a machine capable of offering the experience of the new generation with less resolution, in exchange for an unbeatable price.
This also implies the disappearance of the optical drive, but considering that many users already opt for digital libraries, this also served to achieve a spectacular form factor with which to make the console the smallest model ever created.
A model that seems essential
Microsoft's strategy inevitably reminds us of Nintendo's with its Switch. When Sony and Microsoft were fighting to win the best console position, Nintendo launched a different and attractive product that managed to position itself as the second option of almost all gamers.
You could have a PS4 or an Xbox One as the main console, but as a secondary you were going to have a Nintendo Switch. Now, with the Xbox Series S proposal, who is not going to want a secondary console with these characteristics and a service like Xbox Game Pass? If Microsoft does not convince when choosing Xbox Series X as the main console, it will most likely get it as a second level console, something that, from what has been seen, would even be poorly classified, since despite the 1440p resolution, the games will continue to run at 60 and 120 images per second.