Microsoft’s positioned the $500 Xbox One X as the most powerful console ever made. That’s a claim that's easily backed up by stunning visual and performance upgrades for both its first-party games and select enhanced multi-platform games. That gives the One X a noticeable advantage over its closest competitor, the $400 PS4 Pro. The catch of this slender, cool, and dead-quiet console is that its value is dependent on developers updating their games to make the most of it.
And if you’re already enjoying those quality of life changes having owned an One S, you’ll be happy to know the transition from the One S to the One X is literally as simple as pulling your cables from the former and plugging them into their near-identically corresponding inputs on the latter. Like with the One S, there’s no port for the Kinect (RIP) on the One X, so if you want to use one for old time’s sake you’ll need Microsoft’s $40 USB adapter and occupy one of the One X’s three USB 3.0 ports.