{"id":467009,"date":"2025-11-11T03:28:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2183618"},"modified":"2025-11-11T03:28:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:28:40","slug":"cross-gen-face-off-xbox-series-s-vs-xbox-one-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/cross-gen-face-off-xbox-series-s-vs-xbox-one-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Gen Face-Off: Xbox Series S vs Xbox One X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cross-gen-face-off-xbox-series-s-vs-xbox-one-x.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first year of the new console generation has been quite unlike any other &#8211; Xbox One and PlayStation 4 releases are still prolific and the hard cut-off on older hardware seen in prior transition phases simply hasn&#8217;t happened. Although there have been a small amount of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series exclusive, the new consoles are essentially getting beefed up versions of titles designed for legacy hardware. This puts Xbox One X and Xbox Series S into a particularly interesting situation: an older, but still potent GPU faces off against a less graphically adept, but arguably more rounded machine owing to its massively faster CPU and NVMe solid-state storage. However, Xbox One X can also run games from SSD, leading our latest thought experiment: how does a storage-enhanced One X fare against Series S? <\/p>\n<p>The results are intriguing and in many way controversial &#8211; but this could apply to the whole concept of launching Series S in the first place in a world where a prior generation Xbox exists with more GPU horsepower, more RAM and much higher levels of memory bandwidth. Of course, we have Series machines replacing One equivalents and it&#8217;s Xbox Series X that is the successor to Xbox One X &#8211; the clue&#8217;s in the name. And by extension, we also need to be aware that One X and Series S target very, very different markets: we&#8217;re talking about a machine designed for the hardcore up against a console designed for a more mainstream audience, less likely to desire the clarity delivered by 4K resolution and higher-end rendering features. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2022-cross-gen-face-off-xbox-series-s-vs-xbox-one-x\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2022-cross-gen-face-off-xbox-series-s-vs-xbox-one-x\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first year of the new console generation has been quite unlike any other &#8211; Xbox One and PlayStation 4 releases are still prolific and the hard cut-off on older hardware seen in prior transition phases simply hasn&#8217;t happened. Although there have been a small amount of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series exclusive, the new consoles are essentially getting beefed up versions of titles designed for legacy hardware. This puts Xbox One X and Xbox Series S into a particularly interesting situation: an older, but still potent GPU faces off against a less graphically adept, but arguably more rounded machine owing to its massively faster CPU and NVMe solid-state storage. However, Xbox One X can also run games from SSD, leading our latest thought experiment:&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/cross-gen-face-off-xbox-series-s-vs-xbox-one-x\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":467010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cross-Gen Face-Off: Xbox Series S vs Xbox One X | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The first year of the new console generation has been quite unlike any other - Xbox One and PlayStation 4 releases are still prolific and the hard cut-off\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/cross-gen-face-off-xbox-series-s-vs-xbox-one-x\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cross-Gen Face-Off: Xbox Series S vs Xbox One X | Arcader News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The first year of the new console generation has been quite unlike any other - 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