This week, the two biggest role-playing games of the year were released in a head-to-head contest on rival console platforms. Only now does Series S effectively become the baseline hardware for all multiplatform releasesEver since the surprise announcement in 2020 that Microsoft would release a pair of game consoles this generation — one targeting 4K displays and fancy graphical features like ray-tracing at $499, the other with fewer bells and whistles and less storage, but offering full “next-gen” compatibility for $200 less — there’s been a debate about whether Series S would end up holding back the quality of Series X games, or indeed of all multiplatform releases this hardware generation. sales figures, Series S could account for around half the 21 million Xbox Series consoles out there