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Black Friday is exactly one week away, and yet Amazon has already published a myriad of Black Friday deals ahead of schedule. If you were planning to wait until next weekend to get your holiday shopping done, well good new. Black Friday came early this year. You can save on a ton of great home goods and electronics right now. One of those live deals is for the Xbox Series S. Normally priced at $299, as of this moment, you can get the Microsoft console for just $249. That’s a 17% discount which amounts to a savings of $50.
Better on Console
Microsoft did just a launch a new marketing campaign of posters of laptops and TVs and phones, labeling them, “This is an Xbox.” The company is shifting toward a focus on its Game Pass subscription and cloud streaming services. Samsung TVs now come with a Gaming Hub feature that allows you to access Xbox games from the cloud, no console required. However, in my opinion the internet speeds just aren’t there yet. For graphics intensive games or FPSs that require quick reaction times, you’ll notice frame drops, resolution hiccups, and even a big of lag. As of now, nothing beats running the game locally on a PC or a console to get the optimal experience.
The Xbox Series S comes with your choice 512 GB or 1 TB of storage. The 512 GB version is what’s discounted right now for Black Friday at $249, while the 1 TB console is still sitting at $348. Both options are capable of up to 120 frames per second and have 10 GB of RAM. The Xbox Series S serves as the more affordable entry point in the Xbox ecosystem, compared to the more robust Xbox Series X. The console also comes with a single wireless controller.
The real magic of the Xbox nowadays is in its Game Pass offering. With Game Pass, you’ll be able to access a hundreds of awesome games in an ever-changing catalogue, much like you would for TV shows and movies with Netflix. This is an excellent way to experiment and get to play a bunch of games you may not have ordinarily spent money on and discover new hidden gems for yourself. You’ll also get day one access to any first party titles from Xbox, Bethesda, and Activision such as the recently released Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
