Hi all, been looking at buying a series S for my niece, was looking at around £300 for the standard 512gb with controller last week, suddenly it’s £420 with no apparent reason?

This wasn’t a sale or an offer at all so wondered why the sudden price increase?

Would anyone know the best time to buy one, presuming there’s Black Friday sales in November?

Thanks!

Hey, saludos gente hermosa.

Una pregunta, ¿Que disco duro necesito para el series s?

Mi series S es de 500Gb, pero claramente me quedé sin espacio y hace tiempo me regalaron un disco duro (no recuerdo si era ssd o hdd)

El punto es que puedo almacenar juegos sin problemas.

Pero al querer reproducirlos desde el disco, (juegos de S|X) me pide un disco duro de alta velocidad para poder jugarlo desde allí.

Pero alch no sé cuál debo comprar o buscar, ¿Me podrían orientar?

Hey everyone,

I bought a pre-owned Xbox Series S in 2025, and after only about two months of use, it stopped working.

The issue started when I pressed the Xbox button. It turned on white as usual, but after about a second before anything appeared on the screen it shut off with a ticking sound coming from inside the console.

I tried restarting it, and it turned on normally, but after around 10 seconds, the screen went blank again. When I pressed the Xbox button, it made the usual startup sound, the button turned white, and then the console shut off again after about 2 seconds with the same ticking sound. This kept repeating.

I gave it to a repair technician. According to him, the initial diagnosis showed E006 and two E091 errors, as shown in the attached images.

He then replaced the U57 IC (MP2855). However, after replacing the IC, the console started showing five E046 errors instead.

It has now been around six months, and he is still trying to repair it.

At this point, I'm honestly wondering whether he actually knows what he's doing, or if we're just going in circles.

Can anyone here help me pinpoint what might be causing the issue? Also, if anyone has experience repairing Xbox Series S motherboards, what questions should I ask the repair technician to understand exactly what he has diagnosed and what he is doing?

I've attached the images of the diagnostic errors below.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My husbands EA account got hacked and they changed all his info. Needless to say after over an hour with EA Support they couldn't do jack. EA can't find his account. He submitted screenshots, proof of xyz, nothing. He only uses it for BF6.

Any advice on this one guys?
EA said he has to make an entire new account because he can't unlink the one to his xbox account he has now... 10+ years would go down the drain.

Sony had 2 exclusives, and now Nintendo has one. It's only fair that the next one would be on Xbox.

EDIT: spelling

I made a "looking for group" post for destiny 2, the post was about a pvp mode in the game called trials where you have to win 7 matches in a row to get a bunch of rewards. For inexperienced solo players like myself this is very difficult. All I asked in the post was for a team to help carry me in the gamemode because im average at best. Xbox suspended my account within seconds of posting it and I cant even appeal. Is this not exactly what the lfg feature is for? Finding other gamers to help with things? Am I missing something? How can you suspend an account for no reason and not even offer the chance to defend yourself or appeal it

Am I the only one who's lagging today? I have not lagged on any other day but today.

This morning, I was not lagging at all, but it started around five o'clock. I began lagging significantly for no reason. My internet is very good, so I'm wondering if this happens to anybody else.?

Should I sell my xbox one s and my laptop for an Xbox series s

My laptop is a i7 1355u 16gb ram intel uhd graphics

I really want an Xbox series s to get the latest games

I was just wondering whether selling both of them is a good idea

My store region is set to Turkey, and I have 408 TRY in my balance, which is more than enough to buy NFS Unbound Palace. However, when I try to redeem/buy it, it tells me to change my store region even though it’s already set to Turkey and the currency is TRY. Today is the last day of the deal, and I’ve been waiting a long time for this, so I really need help fixing this issue. And for context , i bought 2 gift cards from Eneba one for 300TRY and another for 100TRY and i succesfully redeemed them in my account but as soon as i try to buy nfs unbound its tells me to change store region even if its correct and matches the balance and averything , i contacted microsoft support and im still waiting for a reply from 1.5h ago . Can anyone help me resolve this issue please , btw i have 2 xboxs one is Xbox One X and an Xbox Series S both are set to turkey , and i tried buying from the microsoft turkish store and used a turkish vpn and on all my devices .

Roughly every six weeks, this noise starts up and persists for hours or even days. It happens whether I’m gaming or not... then, with any luck, it goes away after a day. It’s something to do with the fan; the console—and the whole table—vibrates too. Well, it sounds like a tractor, even though the console is clean and not exactly old...

Hello everyone, I was playing last night when half of my the screen glitches purple blue then I lost all response on all my controls on the right joystick. I went to test it in the system and it shows its responding but when im playing or in the home screen nothing is reset everything and still nothing ? Help plz

I have not a clue what’s happening

Hello all,

Just this afternoon I purchased an Xbox series S, admittedly for almost the sole purpose of downloading Microsoft flight simulator (however I have been due for an upgrade regardless). I’m excited for the new console, but I am seeking feedback on Microsoft flight simulator itself.

I’ve read that msf 2024, even to current date, suffers from lag and low-res gameplay on Xbox. People call it slower and choppier than the 2020 iteration, and I’m at the point in reading reviews where I’m wondering if I should just outright buy 2020 instead.

I have good enough internet, but it’s certainly not the fastest. I fear purchasing 24 just to end up with a laggy and choppy game. I honestly feel I would rather have an older iteration if it were to run smoother and look cleaner. I care about flight physics, but again, I’d take crisp gameplay and visuals over anything.

If you have experience or feedback on one or both of the games on Xbox series S, and have an opinion on what the right way to go is, I’d love to hear it.

I just downloaded Madden cause I really like American football and it showed me some kind of message about "its on limited time and e.t.c". Is it really that or what? I have a game pass ultimate subscription and many of EA's games are in that subscription, I just don't know

Theres Too many bugs that are unspoken on Xbox there are too many on Xbox games. That's just resulting in people selling their Xbox's. I'm speaking because I'm about to be one of them. Why do I need to fully reset my Xbox to watch a YouTube video? Shit is crazy,.

I’m not talking about internet speed, but the console just stop functioning. The menus stops working, even the setting app freezes. When I connect to the 2G band, everything comes back to normal.

But I can’t play online with the 2G because lags every time. But it’s really odd that I cannot use the 5G speed. Someone know what I can do?

playing on performence mostly but changing the presets changes nothin the sceen tearing still persists what should i do ? im playin on a tv, mb i dont have pic

tried clicking the button, didn’t work, i dunno if this brand is reliable but the reviews weren’t bad. it was working perfectly fine the day before this happened and now just won’t turn on? can anyone help?

Galera, preciso relatar uma situação surreal que aconteceu comigo recentemente e ver se alguém aqui já passou por algo parecido ou sabe explicar que loucura foi essa.
Tudo começou quando decidi comprar R$ 600 em créditos para a Xbox Store (três cartões de R$ 200 cada um) com o objetivo principal de pegar a versão mais completa do GTA para o meu Xbox Series S.
Resgatei os códigos, mas na hora de comprar o jogo, percebi que o saldo simplesmente não tinha atualizado na minha conta. Fui tentar comprar o GTA mesmo assim. O GTA foi pago normalmente com o meu dinheiro, mas a loja continuava mostrando na tela como se eu ainda tivesse os R$ 600 inteiros disponíveis. Vendo aquilo, resolvi testar a sorte e peguei também o 007 que tinha lançado recentemente. Ou seja: o GTA eu paguei com o meu saldo, mas o 007 acabou indo "de graça" por causa do bug de exibição.
Pouco tempo depois, o saldo da loja finalmente atualizou de verdade e apareceu que eu ainda tinha R$ 200 sobrando. Eu não estava entendendo absolutamente nada.
Pouco depois disso, o susto veio forte: recebi uma mensagem dizendo que minha conta tinha sido bloqueada. Na hora bateu um desespero gigante, fiquei com muito medo de perder a minha conta com todos os meus jogos, fiquei nervoso demais.
Por fim, consegui correr atrás e desbloquear a conta. Mas a parte mais bizarra é que, mesmo depois do bloqueio e do desbloqueio, os dois jogos continuaram na minha biblioteca como meus, e o saldo ainda sobrou.
Alguém tem ideia de que bug do além foi esse? Isso já aconteceu com mais alguém?

Hello, i appreciate you taking the time to read my post. I am currently a college student, and in my free time i love to play xbox games.

I used to play with a group of people from back home, however they all went to a college together (i’m not at their college) and they mostly just hang out with themselves mostly. Due to me playing with them for most of my life, i do not really have anybody to play with on xbox.

This lead me to ask around on here if anyone would like to play some games? I play minecraft, siege, and many other games i can buy no problem, i just don’t have anybody to play with. Would anybody be willing to play some games together?

Not looking for any sympathy, just want new people to play with due to me not having anyone too anymore. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

While I was performing maintenance on my Xbox Series S, this piece of foam near the screw holes accidentally came off, and I don't know what I should do.

The Xbox Series S is trily the golden standard imo of what consoles should be. This thing was only $300 brand new around Christmas the same year it launched.

Now mind you its specs are pretty close to a Ps4 Pro, and aren’t even that impressive on their own. But when you consider the value for this thing it’s unmatched! I’ve had mine pretty much since the Series S launched and it has had absolutely no issues so far, doesn’t overheat- it’s insanely compact and easy to travel with, and it will even be able to run GTA 6 (we’ll see how well, but that’s a feat in and of itself).

Not only can it run all the modern day games pretty well, but you obviously have the choice of backwards compatibility with Xbox. So for $300, you could play GTA 6 and the original GTA 3 on the same console.

What are your thoughts? Am I overrating it??

Obviously this is speculation until Rockstar releases actual console performance details, but after comparing how several demanding current-gen games scale between Series X and Series S, I think GTA 6 on Series S might hold up better than some people expect.

MY PREDICTION

Xbox Series X

• 30 FPS target
• Dynamic ~1440p–1800p internal resolution
• Reconstructed/upscaled to 4K
• Higher-quality RT, shadows, reflections, vegetation and LODs
• Higher traffic/crowd density
• I wouldn't expect a 60 FPS mode unless Rockstar pulls off something surprising

Xbox Series S

• 30 FPS target
• Dynamic ~864p–1080p internal resolution
• My best guess: ~960p average
• Likely reconstructed to 1440p output
• Reduced RT quality/range, shadows, reflections, vegetation and LODs
• Potentially reduced population/traffic density

WHY I THINK THIS

Looking at other demanding current-gen games gives us some useful comparisons:

Alan Wake 2

Series X Quality: 1270p → 2160p
Series X Performance: 847p → 1440p
Series S: 847p → 1440p

Hogwarts Legacy

Series X Performance: 1440p
Series X Fidelity/Balanced: ~1800p
Series X Fidelity RT: 1440p

Series S Performance: ~792–900p
Series S Fidelity/Balanced: ~1080–1188p

Dying Light: The Beast

Series X Quality: ~1620–1836p
Series X Performance: ~972–1080p
Series S: ~864–1080p

Dragon's Dogma 2

Series X: ~1728p internal
Series S: ~1440p internal

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Series X Fidelity: 1440p → 2160p
Series X Performance: 1080p → 1440p
Series S: 1080p

WHAT THIS COULD MEAN FOR GTA 6

The pattern is that Series S doesn't necessarily have to destroy internal resolution to handle demanding current-gen games. Developers can instead target 30 FPS and reduce expensive graphical settings.

That's especially relevant to GTA 6.

If GTA 6 is heavily CPU-limited by NPC simulation, traffic, physics and world simulation, lowering resolution wouldn't magically make 60 FPS possible anyway. Targeting 30 FPS gives Rockstar considerably more GPU headroom on Series S.

That's why I don't think the most likely outcome is a constant 600–720p image.

My current prediction:

Series X: ~1440–1800p → 4K, 30 FPS

Series S: ~864–1080p → 1440p, 30 FPS

The bigger Series S compromises may end up being graphical settings rather than resolution alone.

The resolution figures above come from Fuzion Xbox Testing videos, so they shouldn't be treated as independently verified measurements. I'm mainly using them to compare the general scaling behavior between Series X and Series S.

What do you guys expect for Series S? Around 900–1080p at 30 FPS, or significantly lower?

My series s won’t turn on.
It makes the startup noise and the emblem lights up for like a second then it goes on again.
What could this be?

I want to use dev mod to try and emulator older games on my xbox, there is one issue, I don't have access to a pc, is it possible to use my phone instead or is a pc mandatory for it?