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victor83fernandes on 29 August 2021
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Runa216 said:
LudicrousSpeed said:

I stand by what I said months ago that there’s no way the X|S beats PS5, but after almost a year of owning a Series X, I couldn’t be happier about choosing it over a PS5. And mainly because of what you outlined in your original post, the value. It starts with the hardware. For the same price I get a more powerful system. But then there’s the controllers. I can play co-op SX games right now using all of my six or seven Xbone controllers alongside my SX controller. If I wanted to play Overcooked on PS5, I’d need to either install the PS4 version and use that one to use my DS4 controllers, or buy multiple $70 DualSense controllers. Yuck.

You were also right about GamePass, it’s been insane value already this gen and will only get more insane once all these studios start dropping games. But just in the last half of 2021 there will be/have been Flight Sim, Hades, Psychonauts 2, Halo, FH5, Back 4 Blood, 12 Minutes, AoE4, State of Decay Homecoming, etc etc.

I think it all hinges on GamePass for them. They can really make up some ground if GamePass takes off. When Nintendo charges $60 for games that never go down in price and Sony charges $70 for games, the value is just too good.

I dunno, man, GamePass has been out for more than four years, and while everyone seems to agree it's a good service...it hasn't had much of an impact on console sales. No more than PSNow (which is a similar but less-known service). 

The power differential between the consoles is negligible, and how can anyone say the XSX's controller is better? I dunno, man, I still don't see it and PS5 is still regularly selling almost 2x what Xbox is on a week to week basis. A similar ratio to last generation. 

I think the only thing Xbox can do is release some games. so far, we're nearing the 1 year anniversary of these consoles and Xbox still only has two exclusives. a Gears tactics game and Death's Door. Halo doesn't come out until December, and I don't personally know of any games that are coming out between them. On the flip side, Sony has countless exclusives - some cross generational, some Gen 8 remasters/rereleases, some indies, some on PC, some that are pure exclusive - and I think gamers worldwide know this. 

As far as I can tell, this generation's competition doesn't start until Halo comes out, and hopefully with every few months when something like Forza Horizon 5, Avowed, Everwild, Perfect Dark, Elder Scrolls VI, Starfield, etc comes out. They've got a lot in the pipeline and damn near unlimited potential, but this generational battle really doesn't start until they start releasing games that can't be bought on the competition. 

PS now is nothing like gamepass, at all. PSnow uses streaming, and unless you have a very fast internet, your game will be lagging.

Xbox controller will always be better for the fact they actually have an official pro controller which is better than any ps controller, I have the elite 2 for my PC and I have the ps5 and I have to use kontrolfreeks just so its half decent. Battery on the xbox controller is 4x the one on ps5.

Sales this generation means nothing as both consoles are out of stock.

This generation xbox is doing a lot more than last gen, so don't expect to be a copy of last generation

1 - Gamepass is getting popular, especially now that games on ps5 are 70 dollars

2 - This time xbox is the more powerful console compared to last gen

3 - This time xbox s the most stable console software wise, I cant tell you how many times switching on after rest mode and I cant move on the home screen, and a couple times the image was all black, no signal, but fortunately its an easy fix. Hopefully the new update will fix some of these issues.

4 - This time xbox has bethesda, so exclusives like fallout, doom, prey, wolfenstein, elder scrolls will all be xbox. And they are starting with a bang with Starfield and Halo infinite, also forza horizon 5, which is not my cup of tea but its a big one.

Personally I'm happy to have the ps5 and switch, because my PC has all xbox games and its on the same level power wise, if I didnt have the PC I'd have bought an xbox instead of ps5. I'm happy I can play ghost of tsushima, last of us 2, demon souls, etc