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Xbox Series S may be ‘Black Friday’s most popular console’

Although that is an easy feat, with none of the rest on sale.

Updated: Nov 27, 2021 4:23 pm
Xbox Series S may be ‘Black Friday’s most popular console’

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It was a great Black Friday for the Xbox Series S, as Business Insider has pointed out after examining Adobe’s Digital Economy Index data. Their report states that Xbox Series S has outperformed the Sony PlayStation 5, the Nintendo Switch OLED and even it’s own sister-console the Xbox Series X during this year’s American-led celebration of unabashed mad-dash consumerism.

The popularity of the smallest and second most-powerful Xbox ever is largely due to stock still being available, as customers try to grab their gaming gifts for the holiday season. The other new consoles have continued to have stock issues, with console manufacturers struggling to create machines thanks to global shortages in things like silicon and semiconductors.

That’s probably underselling things a bit, though, as ‘the little system that could’ actually has a lot to offer despite targeting a 1440p resolution. Xbox Series S is fully compatible with Xbox Game Pass, and all of the titles playable on Xbox Series X can be played on the weaker-but-still-capable Microsoft machine at lower settings that better fit it’s specs. It’s a very appealing machine that also comes in at a cheaper price point, with a RRP of roughly $300 / £250 instead of around $500 / £449. 

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In an interview with The Verge near the system’s launch, Xbox head honcho Phil Spencer described the entry-level system as a move to bring more people into the next-generation gaming space early, saying that they wanted “… to think about how we bring more people into the gaming funnel, have more people experience this art form that we love, the pushback against doing one console was always … but we want to grow, we want to find new customers.”

It seems to be working out so far. Some of the very best reviewed games of the year have also been developed by Xbox Game Studios (Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite) and hopefully the momentum continues as we head towards even more big budget releases like Redfall, Contraband and Starfield next year.  

Want to pick up an Xbox Series S of your own? Check out this page curating all of the very best Xbox Series X/S sales and deals you can find on the internet. 


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