I play the Xbox way more due to both Gamepass and the best next gen feature, quick resume

He said he loves FPS games

But it would only be for a few exclusive games, the series X would be able to play almost every game that comes out, there are only a few that you can’t.

The games play at the same speed?

To be honest, you could get a PS4 and have almost all the PlayStation exclusives, there are not that many limited to the PS5. Alternatively you could get a Series S and then a PS5 digital and have the best of both worlds

There is no bad choice, both consoles have almost the same library of games, both deliver a great experience and both are reliable enough to provide you with new games for the next 5-7 years. PlayStations advantages are that it has some amazing mostly single player gaming experiences, games like the last of us and Spider-Man spring to mind and it”s controller has some advanced features like haptic triggers and a speaker that can enhance your gaming experience, it will also have a VR headset release in the next month or so if you are interested in that further down the road. The Xbox advantages are a generally better and more open system with features like quick resume (let’s you pick up from a game exactly where you ended your session) and great support for older games, you can even play arcade games and older PlayStation, Nintendo and Sega games on it. Gamepass is the biggest reason to get an Xbox, this gives you a newly released game on average every 10 days with all Xbox produced games included, it’s a subscription service like Netflix but tends to work out to be the yearly cost of about 2-3 full priced games and is ridiculous value. Overall I play my Xbox much more than my PlayStation due to Gamepass, this service has enabled me to discover lots of great games that I would have had no interest in playing if I had to pay for them individually, the PlayStation gets used when a particular exclusive comes out that I’m interested in.

I mean, you can go on the PS store and find lots of indie games with terrible graphics and performance (and lots of great ones too), if you are talking about bigger titles the the recently released Gotham Knights had some pretty bad performance issues but this is mostly down to optimisation rather than the PlayStation struggling with the graphics. The PS5 (and Series X for that matter) are basically equivalent to a mid range PC from about 2 years ago, fantastic bang for your buck though. Bad graphics tend to be more about the developer rather than the hardware, either a game is not well optimised, not well funded, not well designed or overly ambitious, perhaps even a combination of all of these and ‘bad’ is also subjective , some people think 30fps games are bad and janky but others are fine with it

All games have areas of ‘bad’ graphics, even something that looks as great as Horizon Zero Dawn has some issues with shimmer around some objects that could be equated to being bad, it’s the overall look and feel of a game that’s more important visually, it’s worth noting that great graphics means nothing if the game itself isn’t good.

I have both and what I will say is that having a Series X with Gamepass (or a series s for that matter) will save you money in the long run, I cannot tell you how many games I have discovered through Gamepass, games I would never have considered purchasing but are now some of my favourite games. Get a Series console, get 3 years of Gamepass using the gold conversion trick (look it up on YouTube) and play away my friend, a day one game release every 10 days on average is nothing to be sniffed at

I have both, also a parent with limited gaming time, I would just wait it out for a few years, you will get the exclusive games cheaper then anyway

FIFA 23 is already cross platform (has to be the same generation of consoles though) but looks like 2K won’t have this (may have something to do with Sony charging companies to allow for crossplay as revealed in the Epic vs Apple case) and Xbox already has Discord working on the platform. Either is a good choice but perhaps go with what your friends have.

But it is likely the SteamDeck will support them

All I will say is, those games you mentioned will come to PC at some point anyway so you will be able to play them on your SteamDeck plus lots of other games that absolutely won’t come to PlaysStation

Great looking game, I had fun with it but it’s essentially the same game as all the other Ratchet and Clanks so if you liked them you will like this

I have both consoles and they are both great but obviously there are some differences. PlayStation are better at producing single player, third person, action adventure games just for their console, the controller has some decent features like the haptics and speaker built in, it also tends to be supported slightly better by third parties. Xbox has the most comfortable controller out of the two (imo), gamepass is a massive draw for gaming, I tend to play far more on my Xbox because of access to newly released games every 10 days on average, I have played lots of games that I loved just because of this service, these would not have been games that I would have chosen if I needed to pay individually for them, the user experience on the Xbox is also superior, saves carry over seamlessly, cloud backup is not a paid for service, Quick resume is an absolute game changer and it also has Dolby Vision and Dolby Sound available whereas those are not available on the PlayStation. Bottom line, you will end up playing more games for less money on the Xbox (with gamepass) than you will on the PlayStation

LOL I too have a Series X and a PS5 (and a Series S, in fact I have almost every mainstream console ever made as well as an arcade machine that I built myself running emulators and of course a reasonably powerful gaming PC with a 3080ti), just so you know the developers moaning about the Series S holding back the generation was debunked multiple times now (the main one was a graphic artist I believe) digital foundry have done videos on the issue. The fact of the matter is that you may not like the low power on the Series S but that doesn’t make it a poor choice for most people, for instance are you happy with the low power (compared to a decent gaming PC) of your PS5 and Series S or are you just a (clearly broke) joker who is happy with the compromises a less powerful console gives you?

All the different consoles have Pro’s and Cons, one is not better than another, it all depends on what you want from a console. I mentioned the PS4 attachment rate to illustrate that the vast majority of people hardly purchase games and therefore smaller storage like you get on the Series S and PS5 are not normally a problem for most people and obviously the PS4 is a system that we can look at the ‘whole life’ numbers of games purchased and is not influenced by Gamepass like the Xbox one is

What, like Warzone 2, knockout city, Metal Hellsinger, psychonaughts 2

CD Keys are not shady.

So if the Series S can only hold 3-5 games with 360gb, that means the PS5 can only have 5-8 games stored as it’s only got 307gb more storage than the Series S, considering the PS4 was considered to have a high attachment rate of 9.6 games per console sold then I would say that ‘only’ 3-5 at any one time is sufficient.

Dark Souls 3 digital deluxe edition £16.99 on CD Keys right now ($20.71).

Storage is only an issue if you switch round plenty of games constantly, you can still store lots and lots of games on a Series S.

It’s worth noting that the series S can play about twice as many games at 120fps than the PS5 can, just a lower resolution

Gamepass solves that problem

Then you have already made your choice, get a PS4

It’s worth pointing out that the Xbox One is capable of emulating almost all consoles and arcade games up to about the PS2, retroarch is an app that is available natively and you just need to download the ROMs for it, it can literally play over 100,000 games including the majority of the Nintendo back catalogue and more PlayStation games than you can play on PlayStation.

Sony themselves said production would continue throughout 2022