- Inside this box,
I have the brand new Xbox Series S.
It's time for some unboxing, my friends.
So what I know is that inside this box,
I should have a full unit of both
the Series S and Series X.
Now they are not currently functional.
For that, we'll have to wait a couple more months,
but it should give us a very good idea
of what these consoles look like,
the size, and importantly,
we know a lot more information now
compared to even a couple days ago
when everything unceremoniously leaked.
Bubble wrap.
Well, that's exciting. - [Matt] Yay!
- Okay, so we have two boxes here.
So I'm going to guess that this is the Series S.
Oh, that's--
- [Matt] Whoa!
- That is tiny.
Hold on a second.
- [Ken] Oh, wow.
- What?
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
hold on a second, hold on a second.
So one of the things is because they've stopped using
an optical drive,
that means that they kind of get a little bit
of a free pass to redesign the console
in whatever way they want.
And they've gone for something very, very small.
Oh, look at it.
It's so cute.
So first of all,
you'll see that there is the very large opening for the fan.
Now this is actually not that different
than what you would have seen on something
like the Xbox One S.
The only difference there was that it was actually
all the same color, so it blended in a little bit,
but you'll see that this is actual, like solid plastic.
So the only vent on the top is this black vent.
This looks fine.
You imagine that like,
underneath your like, cabinet or something at home,
that's going to look really nice.
- [Ken] Hi welcome to McDonalds, can I take your order?
- So we have the controller button here,
as well as we have one USB-A port
and the actual Xbox button.
So around back, we have what actually looks
to be a very similar port layout.
So we have the figure eight cable here for power,
we have these same external SSD solution
from the Xbox Series X.
So that's something to actually consider.
With the Series S,
you're getting a 512 gigabyte hard drive,
or specifically a 512 gigabyte SSD.
It is the same spec as what you get on the Series X,
which means that it is very fast,
but 500 gigs is not exactly a ton of space
considering that of course, look around front,
there's no optical drive.
You're going to be entirely using this as a digital console,
which is something to consider
if you plan on installing tons of games,
and because this is a next generation console,
those games aren't going to be small.
You know, you're looking at 50, 100,
potentially 150 gig games.
So you may want to consider the idea
that you want to use that expansion slot
to get yourself a little bit of extra storage.
So with the Series S you can still connect
to an HDMI 2.1 display.
It will support up to 120 frames per second.
It does support 4K.
Potentially, we may see 8K support,
although you'll never be able to game at 8K,
and let's be real,
the Series X also won't really be gaming at 8K,
but the thing is, you'll be able to do
pretty much everything you can on the Series S
as you can on the X, the only difference is
this is a less powerful console.
So inside the Series S,
what you're getting getting are very,
very similar specs to the full Series X.
So on the CPU side, it is looking almost identical.
So you still have that same 8-core design,
it is going to be clocked 200 megahertz lower.
So you're looking at 3.4 to 3.6 compared to 3.6 to 3.8.
Honestly, you're not going to notice whatsoever.
It does have that same style
of the Xbox Velocity Architecture,
so you have a standard SSD.
It is not going to be any slower, it's just smaller,
but that shouldn't make any difference
to performance at all,
really where the cutbacks are going from X to S
are really twofold.
So it's a smaller console.
And that is largely because it has
what I'm sure is a much simpler cooling solution.
In fact, actually Microsoft have already released
a little bit of a breakdown of what's inside this console.
And if you look at it compared to the Series X breakdown,
there is a much, much smaller cooling solution,
which makes sense,
because inside we have a much smaller GPU.
So where are the Series X has a 52 CU model
of the AMD RDNA 2.0 GPU, this only has 20 CUs,
which means that when you actually run the numbers
with the clock speed,
it means that this will give you
about four teraflops of performance
compared to 12 teraflops on the Xbox Series X.
Now you might think one third the graphics
seems like that's a big cut.
And of course it is,
but to get down to this lower price point,
that ultimately is going to be a huge part
of how they've done that.
So sure.
When you look at a $300 price point and go, oh no,
it's so much less powerful on the graphics side.
That seems like a big step down.
But this is targeting 1440p at 60 FPS,
which is not that far off of the 4K60 that the Series X
is aiming for.
And of course, keep in mind that both of these consoles
are still capable of 120 frames per second.
In fact, they actually released a demo of Gears 5
running on the Series S at 120 FPS.
So for a little size comparison,
why don't we put the Series S beside the OG Xbox One.
That's a...
that's a lot bigger.
Can you see that?
And the thing is, the original Xbox One
didn't even have an internal power supply, which this does.
So you also have the extra brick on the outside.
So I think it's safe to say
that if you're upgrading from the original Xbox One,
this Series S will fit wherever that one lives.
Literally wherever.
So for a little size comparison,
I have not only the Xbox One S,
but I also have the One S All Digital edition,
the grandfather of the Xbox Series S.
So if I put this on top,
you'll immediately be able to see
that it is significantly smaller.
So you can see it's smaller here,
and it is significantly thinner here.
And that is in large part because the Series S
doesn't have that optical disk drive.
And if we actually do them side by side.
I'm curious.
It's a little bit taller?
No, it's not.
It's the same.
There's no difference.
It's, they're exactly the same height, wow.
I actually didn't expect that.
Look at that.
And if you actually look around to the back
at the ports here, you'll see that between the consoles,
they're very much a sort of drop in upgrade, right?
So you can see that they both use the same
figure-eight power cable, they both have HDMI out,
although it does not have the HDMI in anymore,
two USB-A ports as well as ethernet,
but we don't have the IR out or the IR blaster
on the One S and we also do not have the optical audio,
which I think are pretty reasonable trade-offs.
Really what you're getting here is a console which,
if your Xbox One or specifically the One S
sitting around, it's going to definitely fit in, no problem.
I actually wanna see how this matches up
with the Xbox One X.
You know, it's funny.
They really seem to have modeled this after the One S.
It doesn't actually match the One X quite so well
if I actually flip it around.
But it's still smaller, right?
There's no doubt that this is the smaller console.
It's interesting to think about the One S
as far as it being a $300 console.
So of course it is a major step up
over something like the One S,
which was technically capable of 4k,
but couldn't come close to that in gaming,
whereas this should be capable of 1440p gaming.
And depending on the game,
some games may use dynamic resolution
to try to get a little bit higher,
but the main difference between the Series X
and the Series S is that, of course, this is cheaper.
$200 is a big difference.
I think $300 is going to be a major selling point
when it comes to a next gen console.
But it's really gonna come down to graphics
because pretty much everything that the Series X can do,
so can the Series S.
However, with those lower end graphics,
essentially what you're going to be doing
is you're going to be running games
at maybe slightly lower settings,
but mostly a lower resolution.
So you should see a very similar performance
between the two.
Now, of course,
that is all with a huge grain of salt
that we have not actually tried the Series S yet.
We don't know exactly what games will look like,
and we don't know how severe the cuts are going to be.
On the surface, a GPU which is one third as powerful
does sound like a major cutback.
On the other hand, though,
if you're able to get this console for $300,
which of course you will,
it still has the SSD, still has what is essentially
a Ryzen 7 processor.
Don't forget, this is essentially a Ryzen 7 CPU,
which is almost $300 by itself at the moment.
That's kind of incredible, right?
So if we get even close to that Series X
level of performance in something which is this small
and thin and lightweight, well, I guess,
I don't know it's gonna be lightweight,
and I'm sure it will.
This is going to be really exciting,
but we're not done yet, my friends.
Oh, no, of course you have one more box, don't we?
We have one more brand new Xbox to open today,
which of course is the Xbox Series X,
but that gets its own video.
So make sure you're subscribed.
Make sure to go watch the Xbox Series X unboxing
and let me know what you think about the new hotness,
the very, very small new hotness.
It's so cool, right?
It's so tiny.
These things are going to sell like hotcakes, man.
They're going to be absolutely impossible to find,
like, everyone's going to want one.