Nawara_Ven t1_ix39wix wrote on November 20, 2022 at 12:30 PM

The Xbox Series consoles simply have more co-op/multiplayer games, (for kids and beyond) and in greater variety, than any other console (helped in part by having more than two generations' worth of backwards compatibility).

If you were restricting yourself to just first-party Nintendo games, you were always in for a bad time as yeah, they're few and far between.

If performance and more game variety are your key desires, then this choice to change it up seems pretty straightforward.

A vital question, though... are you sure your kids like games if they don't play what you get them, or they just get angry or whatever?

Salty-Preparation-78 OP t1_ix3alwu wrote on November 20, 2022 at 12:38 PM

They like games, we had a blast with It takes two and Goat Simulator when I borrowed my friends Xbox. They liked some coop games on the Nintendo too, but they are so few and the replay value is not very good. So after they finished the most AAA games (Kirby Mario etc) the games just collecting dust. And it’s not that fun to have to wait a couple of years until they release next Mario Odyssey game if you know what I mean. Nintendo maybe drops one game per year that’s good for couch coop, then you play it for a couple of days then you have to wait another year for the next game.

Nawara_Ven t1_ix3bzl8 wrote on November 20, 2022 at 12:54 PM

Sounds like you have all the data you need then. The only (minor) pitfall with a Series S is that one can't buy actual games as gifts for kids, as opposed to gift cards/codes, but that might be an academic issue at worst.

I'd recommend branching out with the game selection too; if you restrict yourself to only first-party titles in terms of Microsoft published stuff, you're going to have an even worse time than you were when depending on just first-party Nintendo offerings, in terms of waiting for releases.