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| ACuriousHorse said: Hello there, fellow Xbox gamers! Been lurking on this great thread for several months now and decided to consult your expert advice - is it worth me trading in my Series S for a Series X if I don't have 4k TV? I got my S for very cheap and it does a great job but I kind of want the most 'premium' experience, just not sure if it's worth it when I'm playing on an older telly. Thanks! |
You've came to the wrong place! Jk 
Welcome to the Thread!
Anyway, if you want the most "premium" experience then I would say yes. Even without a 4K TV, the Series X offers multiple benefits over the Series S. There's more to graphics than just resolution as well, the Series X will have higher graphical settings across the board, things like texture quality, draw distance, lighting, shadows, sharpness, etc.
In addition, you'd be future proofing your experience, a Series X doesn't prevent you from getting a 4K TV or 4K monitor in the future and it doesn't appear as though Microsoft has any intention yet of doing a Series X Pro type of console anytime soon.
What is Supersampling?
A 4K screen is not required to play great games on Xbox One X. Your games will still look and run much better on Xbox One X than any other console on the market regardless of your television and that’s thanks to supersampling. Supersampling also helps to reduce “jaggies” around the edges of objects and other staircasing-like effects
Think of supersampling as the cousin of upscaling. Instead of taking a lower resolution image and blowing up (creating a distortion) like upscaling’s effect, supersampling takes a high-resolution image and scales it down to your television’s native resolution — be it 720p or 1080p — to bring all the information that Xbox One X is pouring into its games and beaming to the screen.
But supersampling is more than just resolution as any Xbox One X Enhanced title running on at 1080p television is still taking advantage of the power of the system. That makes your draw distance better, greater special effects, and everything else that’s running under the hood of the world’s most powerful console.
Yes, a 4K screen will deliver a sharper and clearer image, and HDR will bolster the light and dark features of your game, but supersampling does an effective job of letting you play your games best on Xbox One X regardless of your screen.
(Applies to Series X too).
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 16 July 2023
