One year ago today, (Nov. 10, 2020) Microsoft launched the Xbox Series X and Series S, kicking off the current gen of console gaming. Two days later, Sony countered and released the PlayStation 5 . And what a year it’s been — if you could find one. That’s not to say there haven’t been games making the new consoles worth it. Despite several pandemic-related delays, both Xbox and PlayStation saw big-name exclusives as well as cross-platform releases alongside the PC and Nintendo Switch. Many games have been released on older consoles as well, which isn’t unexpected in a transition year. Xbox Series S and X: More Like a PC Microsoft took a somewhat radical approach and released two rather different consoles, the $299.99 Xbox Series S and the $499.99 Xbox Series X, immediately signalling that it was starting to approach a PC gaming model. Micrsoftoft has two different machines with different hardware capabilities playing the same games. Both use 8-core AMD Zen 2 CPUs (though the Series X has slightly faster speeds), but the Series X uses 52 RDNA 2 GPU compute units while the Series S uses 20 compute units. Additionally, the more powerful system has 16GB of GDDR6… Read full this story
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