Review: The xScreen is a great but pricey way to play Xbox Series S on the go
Anyone who’s been around the block long enough will surely remember the plethora of portable screens available for early 3D consoles such as the PSOne and Nintendo GameCube.
For a while it felt like any time a console got small enough, some enterprising peripheral firm would decide it could theoretically become portable if they slapped a display on it.
Australian company UPspec Gaming has dragged the presumed-dead trend kicking and screaming from 2002, and come to the conclusion that the smaller of Microsoft’s new-gen systems, Xbox Series S, could do with a portable display of its own.
The idea behind ‘Xscreen’ is that players can take their Series S with them on trips, to a friend’s house or even just a different room in their own home, and continue to play without a TV nearby.
Of course, this would be moot if the xScreen didn’t actually deliver satisfying performance, but this is actually an impressive little piece of kit, albeit a pricey one.
We’d imagine that UPspec is desperately praying that Microsoft never changes the form factor of the Series S even slightly with future hardware refreshes, because as it currently stands the xScreen fits like a glove.
The peripheral connects to the console via both the HDMI port and one of the USB ports at the back, and then has two latches at the side. These are screwed in to make the unit secure, and each latch has three tiny hooks at the end, which pop satisfyingly into three of the vent holes on the side of the Series S.
The xScreen has a gap at the back, so players can still plug in the Series S power supply. This gap also gives access to the storage expansion slot, for anyone who owns an official Seagate storage expansion cards, but those are the only slots exposed.
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