I've never done GamePass, but I do enjoy Premium, so bonus!

If you want to do PS5, the PS Premium or whatever is pretty nice, too. It's not GamePass yet (ever?) but it does have a good chunk of games, and you can gift more than a month, so he wouldn't really have time concerns.

I see that I came off as more cavalier than I had expected. Sorry for striking such a nerve. I'm sure you'll figure it out. Happy Hanukkah.

I just saw a couple of PS5s in my local Target, and I heard others same the same about Walmart, FWIW.

XBOX/PS, whatever. It's totally up to the person playing. I went from PS to Xbox to PS.

If this is a gift for someone else, and they actually wanted a PS5, and you don't know them well enough to know that they'd be totally happy with an Xbox, I'd go for that PS5. Or at least have a real talk.

Also, I am always very sus of anything that includes "and they x for literally no reason". There's always a reason. It might be a mistake, sure, but who knows which end that mistake is on. :-)

PS had that leak. Sucked. Pretty much every major website has had some sort of suck at some point. One Christmas I got a whole bunch of Xbox points and redeemed them on my account, and the next day my account was hacked and everything was gone. My account was locked all the way through Christmas, and given back to me a little over a week later, saying "only put the credit you'll use right away on there at a time". I was off that whole time, and wasn't when I got it back. Sucked.