You can also use the Series S to emulate a bunch of games from the six generation and earlier so it's much more capable than the Switch Lite. Series S win easily on that point alone.

Everything on Series S runs better on PC and can emulate better. Switch lite has actual exclusives,Series S has none, it's pointless. And emulating Space Sherrif on PS2 from 2004 which will never be re-released anywhere which is fine to emulate for accessibility, Not about to pirate current Switch games still being sold.

I would say neither personally. I dont get saving a handful of dollars but missing out on key features. Just my 2 cents.

Giving up docked mode wouldn't be my thing nor is buying a console that is barely next gen.

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.  

I mean TBF Switch Lite does technically give up power compared to the OG/OLED models. For instance, how are you gonna run Tears of the Kingdom at 1080p 30FPS with a Switch Life? I understand what you are saying, that yes, in handheld mode the Switch Lite is not any weaker than OG Switch, but Switch isn’t just a handheld device.

Also, I’d encourage you not to become so hostile to discussion which expands upon or rejects your opinion: It’s always good to keep an open mind and consider what other’s have to say. :) You only hurt yourself when you don’t consider new perspectives.

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.

Series S easily. A £280 system able to play pretty much every current gen game with good enough performance. Nothing else comes close for the price to perf. It also brings out the most rage from people you can imagine so you gotta respect it for that.

Different perspectives are great, but wolves are wolves, and arguing with them gets a person nowhere. As I said in another thread, the internet is a magnet for those with dark triad traits. And while I would love to ease their suffering, to lead them toward inner peace and open their eyes, I am not Christ and don't have that sort of power, sadly. So all I can do is turn the cheek and point it out as compassionately as my flawed, humanity allows and hope for the best. Sometimes, that's easy. Other times, not so much.

Switch Lite is cool, cheap, and is the only modern mainstream portable with a proper-ish "handheld" size.

I never understood the internet fascination around the Series S. It was at best decent at the start but you only paid a $100 less than a PS5 DE for something so much weaker and with less storage (Then again, PS5 DE wasn't readily available and scalpers sold it much higher than its MSRP). Today, the hardware is just a terrible value.