XBOX ONE 500GB-USED

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.

What’s under the hood is much more admirable: a 2.3 GHz processor, 6-teraflop GPU, and 12GB high-speed GDDR5 memory all give it a significant advantage over the PS4 Pro. (Microsoft claims it’s 40% more powerful). And at just 11.8 inches long, 9.4 inches wide, and 2.4 inches high, the One X packs it all into an efficiently compact space that’s around 15% smaller than the PS4 Pro, and yet about 15% heavier at 8.4 pounds.

It’s also as remarkably quiet as the One S, even when it’s working hard, and never got warm enough that overheating in a confined space would be a concern. In fact, the Xbox One X runs only a few degrees warmer than the One S during 4K-enhanced gameplay: both the One S and One X averaged within 106 and 112 degrees fahrenheit, while the PS4 Pro stabilized around 124 degrees during our testing.