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I think the problem they've given themselves is that they pushed it as a cheaper alternative to the X whilst also maintaining that it'll be able to play the same games.
How do they go about messaging that can't be the case going forward without pissing off those that spent the money on the S in the first place.
In almost every other case, it is playing them. BG3 is one outlier.
Only takes one though. As soon as someone looking at buying a console sees there's a chance they'll miss out, they'll potentially make the decision to go with the Sony machine instead.
Microsoft already has an exclusive issue, this isn't doing anything but compounding that issue.
Oh totally, this isn't a good thing. At the least Xbox has its own, hopefully great, RPG coming out at the same time.
As I said in another comment, I own a series S, and I think it’s pretty ridiculous of me to expect a $300 piece of hardware to be able to play the latest games past five years. Even with what they have said, I just kind of assumed it can’t be true. 
I imagine in two or three years I will switch to dev mode and boot retro arch on it. 
Right but you're probably a little more clued up to this sort of stuff than the average consumer who's seen the marketing and thought 'oh lovely, I don't need a disk drive' in this thing.
Both my brothers own the S. It's an incredible little machine, but imo they screwed the proverbial pooch when they pushed this as a 1080p alternative to the more powerful Series X.
Hey I get consistent 1440p and decent upscaled 4k! lol