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I can't speak to why , but i did notice that the Japanese 3DS/XL's that I was looking at on ebay often looked brand new, and most of the U.S. sellers stuff looked like they had been run over by a truck. I honestly thought maybe that the Japanese ones had just had their shells replaced. I wondered if maybe people in Japan had easier/cheaper access to replacement shells because they seem to look like new. Or , maybe they just take better care of their stuff? Who knows?

I have my XsX day one and still not regret. it's a superb console whit games pass ultimate. I play Age of empire on my PC and I play at my job games whit the cloud. Fortnite play well on the cloud. 2023 will be a great year for Xbox and game pass. I wait for a slim version of the PS5 and then all day exclusive a miss will cost me less. So no you will not regret 😝😝👍👍. But I play whit my friend a lot online. Xbox have many games that are crossplay whit pc. one have xbox two are on PC and its work very well whit good Headset. If your friend are on PlayStation. You should play whit them so go for a PS5. You could always play Xbox game on PC. 👍

Right now, Xbox only has 3 current gen games. Your xbox one can play everything else. Which is crazy 2 years after launch. Your PC can play all of them.

I don't see the point of having a PC and an Xbox. PC gives you access the Xbox games and game pass is cheaper.

I always recommend a PC and PS5 and it sounds like you already have a PC...

If you mostly play multiplat games I don't see how you'd regret it. Honestly that's most games that most people play anyway. Plus it's been pretty rough the last couple years but when MS does (hopefully!) start dropping all of these exclusives they have in the works each one you're interested in is a $70 game you won't have to buy.

I personally only pick up my PS5 when a new exclusive comes out and I think the controller is cool but massively overrated. I'd like it a lot better if they'd crammed those cool new features into the DS4 form factor.

If you're interested in those PS5 exclusives though, and not just the Sony ones but FF and such too, it's definitely worth picking one up eventually. Looks like we're going to start getting more games that are actually made for the current gen this year so it's a good time to pick them up I think.

Most if not all mutiplayer games we used to play on last gen were cross-platform fortunately.

Fortnite, COD, Battlefield, Rocket League..

The games that you named are almost all single player, and they are last gen and will be awesome on either console. But yeah find out if the games you want to play are cross platform or not so you can play with your friend. Don't let other people push you or convince you so easily.

Starfield, Redfall. Also Hogwarts Legacy for me even though it's not exclusive.

I'm about to receive a Series X, you got me excited, is that game Starfield?

I haven't cared much for either, I have mostly played multiplatform games the whole time. I still don't know if I would like the PS5 exclusives.

Do you like PlayStation games better or Xbox games better? That's all there is to it.

I recently picked up a PS5 Digital to go alongside my Series X.

If all you want to play is multiplat games, multiplayer games, backwards compatible games, and/or games that are currently under the Microsoft umbrella, I think the Series X is a very great machine. It runs everything well and went above my expectations when it came to game performance, load times, and user friendliness.

That being said, I have also really loved having a PS5 so that I can play not only the exclusives, but also games that fully utilize the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers of the PS5 controller.

To me, the PS5 feels more “next gen” and if you can do it, eventually it would be worth it to own both as both have their strengths and weaknesses.

I have tended to play my PS5 more these days, but that simply is because I’ve been enjoying the exclusives while I wait for Xbox to do something in 2023.

I prefer console gaming rather than PC and honestly don't think you can go wrong with either console.

For me, TLOU2 was immersive, surprising, complex, and devastating. One of my all time favorite experiences in many years of gaming. Ultimately, I don't think it was so much a revenge story as a story about the toll that obsessive drive for revenge takes on our lives. I am reluctant to go into details as I don't want to drop a ton of spoilers, but I would urge anyone still on the fence about playing this to ignore the promoters and detractors and check it out for yourself. As an author and veteran of many workshops, I have found that strong positive and negative responses means that you are doing something right.

Can only speak for Xbox, but using games on it requires you to have the system format the drive so it's unable to be used for anything else.

Though you can totally go bigger than a 2tb (I have an 8tb), but of course you can't play series X games off of the external.

Ahh ok. Even for the cost of a Series X, you can get a pretty decent PC from used parts these days. Look into it - I picked up a 3800x the other day for £100. 3700x usually goes for that. So:

3700x: £100 16gb RAM: £50 Case: £50 Mobo: £50 PSU: £60 SSD: £50

Leaves you £90 for a GPU if you MUST match the Xbox. I’m seeing 6800s go for £250 on eBay. You could probs get some of the above parts cheaper too, but for £160 more than an Xbox you’ve got a whole gaming PC which can play all the Xbox games, PC games and most PS5 games, with free online and cheaper games making up most of the £160 difference (games usually £20-30 cheaper, live £50 a year etc)

Thing is, the pc is shared with my brothers and isn't in my room so it isn't accessible for me all the times, So I gotta have two systems.

Why get the PS5 or the Xbox? Most of Sony’s exclusives are/have come to the PC, and all of Xbox’s do.

I’d return the Series X and upgrade your PC with the money. Used parts are selling v affordably atm.

The exclusives is the primary reason to get a PS5 imo. If they don't interest you at all, then the Series X will provide you with a lot of the same features as the PS5. In fact, the majority of multiplatform games will be coming out for it, so it's not like you won't have anything to play. Especially now, when we're just getting into the 9th generation. If a lot of the exclusives appeal to you, you should get the PS5 instead. Even now, it's the greatest console I've ever used. And I've had a PS3 and PS4 Pro as well. But whether or not it's worth it for you, depends on the games.

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Yes. We agree.

Technically you could hunt down components, have really good luck and with some effort you could save a couple hundred to match a console.

But in normal circumstances, a more "default" price would be near 1000. Take into consideration you must know what you are buying, do research, compare benchmarks, check compatibility, know what are you going to use your rig for, etc. With consoles you just buy it.

Surely next year will be even cheaper to build a rig like-new gen.

The point was, with 200 dls you could have bought a ps4, and have access to games like God of War and Uncharted, including all the games you listed except the pc exclusives.

In counterpart, you could have bought a Xbox Series S with 300 and have even more games with a HUGE difference in power and performance.

Yes, you got a cheap rig, but the point was to equal the power in cost-effective way to consoles. Which you did not achieve.

For $750 you get a PC much more powerful than a $500 console. You can drop to an older CPU, and an older GPU to match the console power if you want. But yes, I wouldn't run the 6700xt at 4k native resolution, just like the consoles don't run 4k native resolution. But that console could easily play A Plague Tale: Requiem at 60fps, which the new consoles can't do. Same with Gotham Knights.

And going forward when more games on console are locked to 30fps, you would have the option of running those games at 60fps.

On black Friday then you could buy a console for 250 dls. I fail to see your point, is still 500dls cheaper. And I am not sure a RX 6700XT can manage 4k at 60 fps

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