Which was the better "cut down" model, Xbox Series S or Switch Lite, and why?

[HoloDust]

Chrkeller said:

HoloDust said:

From my POV, both are equally bad.

XSS was compromised too much with specs, so it often looks quite worse visually.

Switch Lite lost key Switch functionality, while not being much more portable...now if they designed it as clamshell form factor, that would be whole different story.

Yeah, I hadn't paid any attention to the Series S until S2 comparisons started.  I didnt realize just how underpowered the Series S was.  Roughly a 1650 give or take?  The S2 keeps up with it, way better than I expected, because it is way weaker than I assumed.  I wouldn't touch one.  

MS clocked XSS unreasonably low IMO - I get they wanted to save on everything, so only 20CUs vs 52CUs in XSX, but in addition they clocked its GPU at only 1.56GHz (vs 1.82GHz in XSX), when comparable RX 6000 cards are running at >2GHz.

If they made XSS to actually perform at half the XSX, it would be quite solid console. Devs treating ports for it as an afterthought doesn't help either.