Im not much of a gamer (ironically I make games for a living) but I made a bet with my kids that if the Detroit Lions make the playoffs this year I’ll buy them a system, and its looking like almost a lock to happen, so I want to get in on some Holiday deals.
This is their first non-Nintendo system so I’m a little lost on which way to go at this point in the generation cycle. For reference they’re 7 and 9 year old boys and are gonna be new to gaming that isnt based around crafting or Italian brothers. (i made them use my old NES, then SNES first, then got them a Switch a couple years back)
No reason other than what games they prefer
Xbox has game pass and plenty of its own first party games to go thru.
PlayStation has a great amount of games accumulated from when 3rd parties stopped really releasing on Xbox and they have a Japanese library of physical games you in import of thats your thing. They also have PS Plus, their version of gamepass.
But also Xbox does now have some big studios under their belt yet again so gamepass is expected to get a big boost of games on their service like crash at some point, Spyro and other games published by Activision and Blizzard and Bethesda etc (gamepass is like game Netflix). Gamepass has a great library of games for all ages and Minecraft. Everyone loves Minecraft.
I would recommend getting disc version of either one. Yeah digital is supposedly the close future but the option is nice and they both play 4K dvd if you have any dvds at all laying around and if someone gets them a gift it’s a easy insert without losing out on trade in money. The Xbox series X is also more powerful than the Xbox Series S although its bigger and bulkier
They are both good prices at the moment the PS5 and the Series X