Was the Xbox One a good console in its own right?

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The One S was such a good looking console, my wife approved (she hates current gen consoles too big in the living room!)

Backwards compatibility and gamepass made it into the best console at the time (in my opinion) you could stack gamepass codes and have it for next to nothing :)

I failed to see any difference in graphics between my ps4 slim and One S at the time - some games still look amazing today on it (Crash Kart game for example)