It still doesn't change the fact that it's an inferior subpar experience. If your money is so tight that an extra $200 is the difference between you being able to buy a console or not you've got more important things to worry about than buying a game console. That's some pretty tight living. I look at it like this. I spend that $500 and the 1TB drive alone makes it worth it. Series X came with 800 GB free. The S has like 360 free. For that extra $200 you're getting 2.2x the free storage space, a disc drive which allows you to purchase games on sale at physical retailers, and superior hardware.
The same reason I got the PS5 with the disc drive. You have the ability to resell games and get games that are on sale physically but not digitally. Over the life of the system having that disc drive alone will more than make up the initial extra cost.
Just a few buy 2 get 1 free sales cover the extra cost of the series X. The S isn't worth buying. It's a short sighted purchase.
Strongly disagree as a 200 dollar difference is relevant to the person.
If the these boxes where 700 instead of 500 would you pick one up?
If you have a extra 500 to spend, and that's it, you can get a series s, gamepass, and whatever your game of choice is for under that.
Or you could just buy a series x or ps5 and that's a wrap.
There's a reason used sales aren't a waste, there's a large crowd of people that just want a system that's cheap, still somewhat powerful and let's them play with friends or online if they want.
Everything else is irrelevant for them, when I worked at GameStop these kind of people came in ALL the time. Way more than people like "us"
