Maybe decide whether you want to play on a controller with offset analog sticks or in-line sticks. That is what your decision seems to come to. Both consoles can play the kinda of games you outlined. Get whichever you like the look of honestly. But make sure to play on a 4ktv to get the most out of whichever you choose.

Then your disposition to giving a kid a second hand Xbox makes even less sense

I see you’ve never been a younger sibling.

I have a feeling a kid doesn’t care where his Xbox comes from.

Oh yeah, what graphics/texture quality settings is it running?

PSVR2 is also coming out soon. There is no equivalent on Xbox.

I didn’t seek out this subreddit with the specific intention of leaving comments like this. It just showed up in my home feed because it’s related to gaming. I didn’t realize that this was r/consoles at first. I just like discussing gaming. I was under the impression that you got offended by my (and the other guy in this thread’s) comments and were being defensive, hence the downvotes.

We’re not trying to be rude by saying “get a pc”. We genuinely want to enlighten someone who otherwise might not have considered it. This is a place for public discussion. We should be allowed to say whatever we want so long as it doesn’t break the rules of this subreddit and reddit.com.

That’s a bit of a misnomer. Consoles rarely run games at native 4K and if they do the graphics settings are usually set to low. Native 4K high/ultra textures at 60 is better than upscaled 4K low preset at 120 imo. You are also completely at the mercy of the game dev whether or not they program their game to run at 120 or 4K (it’s exceedingly rare for a game to support both). Whereas you can make virtually any PC game run at 120 with little hassle. And 4K 120 tvs are expensive ($1k+). You might as well put that extra capital towards a proper gaming desktop and monitor.

For the same price you could either get a $1000 pc and $500 monitor or a $500 console and a $1000 tv. The choice is clear to me.

Everyone needs a computer. Why not have that computer be able to spank the ps and Xbox at gaming performance?

Pretty much yeah.

If you play on a 1080p tv get a Series S, if you play on a 4ktv get a Series X. Series S ain’t bad tho. It’s nice and compact and keeps up with the X in terms of frame rate and loading time. But it might be worth it for you to spend the extra on the X. The ssd on the X has about 800gb of free space and the S has about 350gb. The X can also play your disc based Xbox one games and Blu-ray movies. And you get 4K graphics. But either one is a good choice.

You will be playing basically the exact same games that you play on your one s if you get a Series X. PS5 will give you access to games that you haven't really had a chance to play, alot of them being single player, and still get all the important multiplats. Also consider if you care about trying out the PSVR2 that is releasing next spring. There is no such equivalent on xbox.

I found a refurbished pro on game stop for $300 link

I’d say get a ps4. That way you can play new games you’re interested in. If you get a series s you’d still be playing the same games you got tired of.

Try to go for a ps4 pro if you can. Otherwise ps4 slim is aight.

Agreed. They were way funnier.