I bought a lot from Facebook. However, Ebay covers you if there is an issue with the console. Also, check out gaming fairs. Just to note, old consoles that take CDs may have a dodgy laser reader.

Market place works great for affordability.
Some will mail it out to you as well, as long you pay first.
(Never been burned)

Also, goodwills, some pawnshops are open to barganing as well.
Salvation armies.... etc.

Otherwise, buy old consoles sold for parts, and have fun learning how to fix them. :)

Ebay has done me right. I just got a PS1 from goodwillfinds.com that wasn't supposed to work but it did.

I've also found stuff in person on offer up and FB Marketplace. Really need to trust your instincts but it's been successful for me.

What are you looking for?

i would still use ebay despite the issues you mentioned. price can be remedied by being persistent and frequently looking for the thing you want. to get an idea about what you should pay, find the item you want and sort by "sold". that will give you a good high to low range. shipping can be a pain. nothing to be done about it. but you have to factor in the fraud protections you're gonna get shopping with ebay. imo it's the absolute best option.

hardware upgrades? rdna 3 + zen 4 Apu, 16GB gddr6 at higher speeds, 1TB Gen 4 ssd, better cooling for more silent operation.

the rdna 3 gpu should be at least twice as fast as the ps5 gpu to allow for true 4k @ 60fps in most games. rather than 4k @ 30.

Wtf 😳

The games yes, either use an external drive or have both in the same network and use the network transfer option.

The save games are typically in the cloud as well as stored locally, I’m not sure how to check the status of that.

Accounts are not possible to be moved, you’d have to sign in with those from scratch, when you log in the console asks if you want to duplicate your settings from your previous console or start fresh.

I love the idea of switch. Japans are good in innovations

Mate every game is cloud saved so you won't loss data and if your really picky on some old game just look it up. So when you get a new xbox just sign in and start redownloading your games, if you have an external hard drive you can plug it into your new xbox so you don't have to redownload some of the games although a lot will want to be enhanced.

Just sign in on either console you are using at the moment and it will sync as long as you are connected to the net.

Hard drive wise, grab an external USB 3.0 SSD and copy your Xbox one/360/OG games to it and then you can use it on either console.

When I moved to series X, I justed logged in using my profile, if your refering to profile data, this is not only kept on your systems hard drive, but on Microsofts Azure servers also, so theres no chance of you losing it. As for games can swap em using any external HDD/SSD. If you have a lot of games on a external, might be worth getting a external nvme SSD, (once downloaded games can be swapped back and forth within a couple of minutes), others work fine and don't need the super expensive series s/x dedicated one.

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External HDD can have games OR media, I don't think it can have profiles or save data (but I'm unsure as all that stuff seamlessly stores on the cloud anyways nowadays).

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If you love Bethesda games, you should definitely buy a Xbox. But I must say, if you have $1,000 to spend I’d honestly recommend buying both Xbox and PS5 this generation.

There are a ton of great exclusives on PlayStation and games with good use of the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. Then on Xbox you have Halo, Forza, Gears, all of the backward compatible games from previous generations, and Gamepass.

To me, this made the most sense. I don’t have a ton of time to game being a father and having a full time job, so when I do I want to play the games that I want with no restrictions on exclusivity or age.

That’s just my opinion, but I’ve loved both and have used both regularly!

Would it be possible to keep the accounts too? I'm sorry I'm specific. 😂

Literally can't argue against this..

Unless you have any interest in god of war and horizon other than those I'd go xbox

Considering the games you play I’d probably go for series x then.. affordable, game pass and plenty of rpgs to chose from and they own Bethesda so there will be lots in the future

Exactly ps2 has alot of great games so i wouldnt be surprised if everyone would just start playing them. Btw gta 4 is to dark for me i dont like the whole russian nikobelic vibe (im from eu east myself)

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Yeah they’re both good games, my favourite is gta4 so that’s the only old gta I’d play religiously

What kind of TV do you have?

Uhhh ok. What happens when you plug the HDMI cable in and out? Does that fix anything?

the series x has a little bit more RAM 16 which some games would be better to have while the series s has 10 gigs