You can turn off cross play with Xbox through the system settings.

Settings>> Account>> Privacy and Online safety>> Xbox Privacy>> View Details and Customize>> Communication and Multiplayer>> You can join cross network play, set it to Block.

Series S and Game Pass Ultimate and you're set

Either Tetris or Pokemon Red/Blue 👍

Out of all the great games, gotta pick Sonic 2. It was Sega at its peak popularity, and a huge improvement over the first game, even though I love that game also. Sega Genesis will always be my favourite console!

Xbox compliments the PC basically, has a lot of games that if you bought it on Xbox, you get it for PC also (Gears, Sea of Thieves, etc.). Also, if you get Game Pass Ultimate, you get access to tons of games for Xbox and PC, including Ea Play which has Fifa.

Ps5 would be good for you if your interested in the Sony exclusives, and if you buy their subscription, you get tons of games through their history backlog as well.

So basically, it's your choice on which sounds better to you. Also, this question will never get a solid answer from ppl, because of console wars 🙄

I personally like the Xbox/ Switch Pro offset sticks, and the Wii U pro controllers stick placement was also comfortable to me. The Playstation controller was good back in the day we use the d pad more, but it's hard for me to get use to now.

DS might be more your thing by the sounds of it. Invizimals was kind of Sonys take on Pokemon with a twist to it, but you could also go with the Psp and get the original Invizimals game.

Honestly, both systems are great with great selection of games, just DS has more puzzle style games because of the bottom touch screen, where Psp plays more traditional console style games, just on the go. Psp also has better graphics and much better screen.

Either one you choose, your getting a great console with excellent game library 👍....but I will say I personally liked the Psp more.

Do you like Playstation games, or Nintendo games? Both are honestly solid choices, just depends on what genre of games you prefer.

Ps4 one is the better deal there, especially considering it's a last gen console, but wouldn't getting a xbox one make more since then getting a 360? The Xbox 360 is from two generations ago (Ps3/360 era) so unless you want a retro system, its not really worth getting now.

I would suggest looking up Ps4/Xbox One games and used system prices on Google to see what to expect for consoles prices, and what games your interested in. Do you prefer games like Gears of War, Halo, Forza, Sea of Thieves etc. or do you prefer games like Uncharted, Spiderman, God of War, Last of Us etc.? That is usually a big factor in what system you should choose.

Anyways, I rambled on alil, but the Ps4 in that situation is the better deal of the two, especially since new games are still being released on it.

....OK, why? 🤔