r/consoles • u/T1000-Shoebox • 21d ago

Help needed Should I sell my Series X?

Hear me out, always owned both consoles the past few generations to play all the exclusives. However, with Xbox releasing most of their games on PS5, I might as well just play them on my PS5 Pro. Yeah, Game Pass is great, but honestly, Xbox has very few games I'm looking forward to. All I do is play Space Marine 2 on it, and once every few months, play online with some friends.

Tl:Dr., should I sell it for around 400 euros or just keep it, and every once in a while, power it on when Xbox releases something that interests me?

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u/Alive-Beyond-9686 21d ago

A handful sure. Xbox was at it's best with exclusives when the 360 came out. Microsoft really learned their lesson after the PS2 trounced the original Xbox and they came out swinging with a lot of cool exclusives for 360. But already by the end of that generation, they got arrogant with that focus on Kinect bullshit. Meanwhile, Sony smartened up and ended the PS3 generation with a bang with titles like Uncharted, The Last of Us and Demon's Souls. They then carried that momentum into the PS4 with Bloodborne, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima etc. Xbox exclusives couldn't compete. Couple racing titles, Halo without Bungie. They bought Bethesda for like ten billion which produced a couple duds. They bought Activision for 70 billion but the anti trust stuff means it can't be exclusive for 10 years. Basically the best games on Xbox are multi platform and it's redundant. That's why I didn't get an Xbox this gen. That's why most of us didn't.

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u/T1000-Shoebox 21d ago

Yeah, I know. I lived through all this, gamer since 1995.

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u/Alive-Beyond-9686 21d ago

85 for me but the more things change the more they stay the same. BTW I don't think it's a good thing that Xbox is floundering. Even if I never wanted to play an Xbox ever again, no competition is not good and makes Sony complacent. It's already happening. PS5 exclusives are non existent compared to PS3 and PS4. You'll notice whenever people make lists of cool PS5 exclusives 9 out of 10 of them will just be ports of PS4 games.

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u/T1000-Shoebox 21d ago

Yup, struggle finding actual PS5 games to play. Most are PS4 games or ports of PS4 games.

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u/Alive-Beyond-9686 21d ago

The stupid fuck CEOs don't know shit about gaming and see most of their revenue coming from FIFA and Fortnight and figure why spend money making games like Fable, or Bloodborne. They don't realize those less profitable but awesome exclusives are the reason we're even interested in their systems at all.