I'm 50 now and I haven't played a video game in over 10 years but I told myself if this game came back, so am I. So which console should I buy?
buy the one you want to be online with, if your friends are still playing. Most of mine are super ols/distracted now, like me.
Neither system does every feature for 4k disc playback. if you're going to pay may as well have a decent but not great 4k player, at least before the studios successfully train people out of theater sound and quality altogether.
don't get the discless one unless you're sure you'll never buy again. The sound quality on streaming is so bad, and it doesn't take much to get really solid sound. bic f12 is basic but powerful for very little as a starter sub, for example, when you go that route.
one rather big discrepancy is ps5's expandability. it's much cheaper to add space if you're going to be installing a bunch of games. Xbox lets you use an external drive for secondary storage, but the expandable nvme storage is proprietary only. And you cannot load games from the non Xbox drives, so if you're like me and will enjoy downloading a handful of game pass games and playing them very rarely (especially dumb ones like goat simulator), note that the series x specific games can't be played on the third party drives. So you have to move them from an affordable SSD plugged in via USB to the internal storage.
I don't like call of duty games, but for free I might play the campaign. that kind of game can't be played from a third party storage unit, so I'll have to clear off internal drive space to play it, even if a third party SSD has 4 TB free.
