PS5 - More exclusive games that you can't play anywhere else (God Of War, FFXIV, Gran Turismo 7, Last of Us, and many more to come). There also seems to be a trend with 3rd party games where the PS5 seems to run the games very slightly better (Elden Ring, Overwatch 2, etc.). You also have the Dualsense controller which is considered one of the more notable "next gen" improvements we've gotten this year with the new systems, though I wouldn't necessarily call it a "game changer". Overall, due to install base (more people have Playstations than Xboxes) you can count on many games often having little content exclusives for the Playstation versions that the Xbox version doesn't get (Modern Warfare 2 has some add ons that are exclusive to Playstation. You also see this in games like Destiny)

Xbox - Game Pass. I mean, seriously, Game Pass. I play MLB The Show, and that game was a day 1 free download on Game Pass while it was a whole ass 70 freakin' bucks on PlayStation. I tend to sample a lot more games on Xbox because of Game Pass, so overall, I feel my collection of games on xbox span a wider genre simply because I can try so many things out for free. Xbox, more specifically the Series X, also has better hardware in my opinion. I find the build quality to be slight better than Playstation's, and I personally prefer the UI on Xbox over Playstation (really a matter of an opinion though and I'm probably in the minority there. ).

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Honestly between the two, it's hard for me to not recommend the PS5 at the moment. You just have a better library of games to play (better as in quality). That may certainly change in the coming years if Xbox really pulls off a string of solid console exclusives with all the big studios they bought the last few years. I'm a HUGE Bethesda fan, and I personally can't wait to sink my teeth into Starfield (really hope that game lives up to the hype). I'm sure there's also some stuff Xbox has up their sleeves, but they really need to execute in 2023. In my opinion the Xbox had a dismal 2022 seeing all their major first party exclusives get delayed thus leading to a year where the PS5 seemed to get a huge console exclusive every quarter while Xbox gamers were stuck mostly playing 3rd party stuff you can play anywhere else.

I mean, if you don't care about exclusives and most of what you play is like sports games, or Call of Duty, then in that case who really cares which one you get because they both get those games and both run those games about as good as the other does. But yeah, as someone that's owned an SX and PS5 for almost 2 years now, I still gotta go PS5. For now...