Can't make up my mind about whether to get a Series X and here's why

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curl-6 said:

From the moment Hellblade II was announced, I was like, "welp, guess I'm buying a Series X" since I loved the first game so much, plus I'd get to play Halo Infinite and any other 9th gen games I end up wanting, (RE8 looks pretty awesome) as well as 8th gen games I missed out on like RE7.

Here's my problem though; what if most of these games just end up releasing on Switch's successor a few years down the line? Should I just wait for that and save myself spending hundreds of dollars on a system I may not need?

For example, if I ended up caving and buying a PS4/Xbone in 2016 or so, I'd feel pretty annoyed now as pretty much all the games I wanted to play ended up coming to Switch; Doom 2016/Eternal, Hellblade, Witcher 3, Crash 4, etc. So I ended up not needing a PS4/Xbone at all and getting one would've been a waste of hard-earned cash.

It's pretty safe to assume the likes of RE7/8 will come to Switch's successor, and with a lot of MS exclusives having made their way to Switch in the past few years, there seems a reasonable chance Hellblade II might follow suit. And with no shortage of Switch software to keep me going in the mean time, maybe I should skip Series X and wait. I can't make up my mind.

Get the Series X and just get gamepass when it has something you want to play.  You will save a ton of money that way, then even if you wanted to buy it again on a Switch successor you can without needing to double dip.  If you really want to save and graphics don't matter as much, Series S is an option as well.

Gamepass really does make for a great incentive to choose Series X as a console to own alongside the Switch (unless you have a beast rig of course).  And since you missed out on a some games last gen, you will have something to play while you wait for the gen 9 games to drop.