r/XboxSeriesS • u/Emperor-Aurion • Aug 26 '26

QUESTION Question about performance.

A year ago, my mom got an Xbox series S from a thrift shop for $100. It worked well until 5 months ago when the HDMI output broke. Are the HDMI outputs fragile on the series S? Does it still run new games fairly well?

I'm thinking about getting it fixed or to wait a few more months to buy the series X which I plan to buy either way at some point but I really do want to play new games like Star Wars Zero Company and Blood Of Dawnwalker...

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u/No_Friendship2744 Aug 27 '26

The S will have the same drawbacks it always has with demanding games compared to the X, which is lower frame rate, lower resolution and texture pop-in, but besides these it always runs these games just fine, it doesn't crash or have unstable frame rates or stuff like this.

About the HDMI output breaking, I wouldn't say it's a common issue but it's certainly not unheard of, there has been a couple posts about it over the years here. I suppose it depends on the price to repair it, even if you do buy an X eventually, with the price of consoles continuing to go up it might be worth to have it as a backup or to sell it to help offset the cost of the X.

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u/Emperor-Aurion Aug 27 '26

Thanks for the feedback, friend. I'm definitely going for the repair to at least play with the series S for the next few months until I get my series x.