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After months of waiting, we finally know when the Xbox Series X, Series S, and PlayStation 5 will be released, and some games that will be available on day one.
But the new hardware requires some investment: the Xbox Series X / S will cost $ 499 and $ 299, while the PS5 and its discless digital edition will cost $ 499 and $ 399. And if you want to take the plunge, you’ll need power too. find a console, which hasn’t been easy with PS5 pre-orders so far. (Fingers crossed that Xbox Series X / S pre-orders run smoother.)
Are Microsoft and Sony offering enough to convince you to buy the next generation at launch? Our newsroom is ripped, so we wanted to share our thoughts in case it helps you make a decision, even if that decision is, “I’m going to wait a while.”
Taylor lylesI plan to buy both a PS5 and an Xbox Series X at launch, in addition to upgrading my PC to next-gen hardware.
At first, I was going to put off buying a PS5 until Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart received a firm release date. (Right now, it’s programmed for the PS5’s “home window”). But when i saw Demon souls remake would be a launch title, I decided to bite the bullet.
Initially, I wanted to buy a Series X at launch for Infinite HaloBut after it was delayed, there was nothing to encourage me to buy an Xbox Series X until 2021. Then Microsoft acquired a bunch of ZeniMax properties, including one of my favorite game franchises, Fall out, rekindling my interest in purchasing Microsoft’s next-generation system on launch day.
Julia Alexander: First I’d like to say that while I respect my colleagues who buy the great Xbox console, I’m more interested in seeing their living room setup. Where are they placing the console? Does it fit inside your TV stand? Is it going to stay on the ground forever because there is simply no other place for it to exist? Is so big! It is, frankly, too big. I’m looking at an Xbox One right now and it’s a perfect size. But I digress.
I’m probably going to buy a PlayStation 5. Wait. Stop. I’m not “well, actually” in the comments yet. I’m aware of technically the PS5 is bigger than the Xbox Series X, but here’s the thing: I don’t find it as imposing, as imminent, as threatening as Series X.
Look, I’m not the one saying “IT’S ONLY BETTER”, so please don’t email me about hate on Xbox. I have used PlayStation consoles my whole life, and at the moment I am mainly using consoles as general entertainment systems. So if I have to choose (although I wish I could live freely and just include both on my Visa), I’m basically buying what I think looks the best. I’m going with him Tron-Looking at the console. Consoles are living room pieces. It looks like the PS5 will really bring the room together. I stay with the futuristic Wall-Econsole inspired by the huge boring brick.
Sean Hollister: I have never bought a console since day one, always waiting for reviews and early glitches to be fixed, and with the PS5 and Xbox Series X and S, I feel like there are fewer reasons to buy at launch than ever. I really want to play Miles Morales and Horizon: Forbidden West, but Sony says I’ll be able to do that on my existing PS4 Pro. Also, I wrote a full editorial on how I probably won’t need an Xbox at all – all the major games are coming to PCs too, and a lot of them to the cloud.
Also, the biggest games for both consoles probably won’t be out anytime soon. I love myself a little Demon souls and the first images of the Bluepoint remaster made me dizzy, but will we even see the delay Halo: Infinity or that new Horizon before the 2021 holidays? Deathloop it was also delayed to 2021. And heck, if I wait long enough, I can probably play the “PS5 exclusive” Demon souls and Final Fantasy XVI on PC too.
But … I did manage to get a PS5 pre-order. Are you ashamed to waste it? I have a lot of good stuff on PS4 that will be backward compatible, and we’re still stuck at home right now. I guess I can sell it at a loss on Craigslist or something, if it’s not used enough. After all, this is how I originally bought my PS3 and PS4.
Cameron faulkner: I’m almost completely sure there’s nothing the Xbox Series S can do that my current PC can’t do better, but I’m still yearning for that $ 299 console. I thought as consoles became more like PCs on the inside , by equipping yourself with fast processors and finally FINALLY faster PCIe-based storage, I would steer further away from them as I’m ready on the PC front.
However, I’m as drawn as ever to the idea of being among the first to get the S-Series. I’m a huge Game Pass fan, but beyond that, I think Microsoft’s strategy of setting expectations with the specifications of the Serie. Yes (without exaggerating like it did with the One X), and allowing me to use all my Xbox One generation controllers, they suit me fine.
Kaitlin Hatton: My last foray into the world of consoles was with PlayStation 2. However, I eventually switched to PC games as they were easier to keep up with during four years of college and various long distance moves. Then came the pandemic, and as an adult with a little change and a lot of free time, console games called on me.
All of this is to say that my return to the console world will come with the digital version of PlayStation 5. I don’t have disc games, so my decision between the two versions was pretty easy. I probably won’t buy it on launch day, but I hope to have one before the new year.
Tom warren: I pre-ordered a PS5 and I’m sure I’ll pre-order an Xbox Series S. I’m debating getting all three because I’m addicted to games, but I already have a powerful gaming PC that will play all the Xbox exclusives . The Xbox Series S seems like a great deal for something that I can plug into my 1440p monitor and quickly access Xbox games.
Jay Peters: I have a pre-order for the PS5 digital edition and I plan to pre-order the Xbox Series S. But if I’m totally honest, I could cancel the PS5 pre-order and stick with the Xbox Series S for the start of this generation of consoles.
I just got a PS4 in May and I still have a lot from their old catalog to get over. (Currently I have 70 hours in Person 5 Royal, if you were wondering). The PS5 game you most expected, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, It will also be available on PS4, so there is nothing new on PS5 to call me on day one. And that $ 69.99 price tag for some PS5 games is a lot.
A $ 299 Xbox Series S combined with a $ 9.99 per month Xbox Game Pass subscription, on the other hand, will allow me to dive into the older Xbox catalog (I haven’t owned an Xbox since the Xbox 360) and Play all the next-gen launch titles in the future. For the same $ 399 I’m paying for the PS5, I can get an Xbox Series S and 10 months of games on Game Pass.
We’ll see if I stick with that PS5 pre-order.
Jon porter: I didn’t buy a PS4 until quite late in the current generation of consoles, and if I’m honest with myself, I don’t know when I’ll get to the update. I recently gave my gaming PC its first new CPU in five years (I jumped from an Intel i7-4790k to a Ryzen 5 3600), and along with its Nvidia RTX 2080 graphics card I can get a reasonable experience with most of the modern games. .
That could change if more of them start to integrate high-performance graphical features like ray tracing to maintain parity with next-gen consoles, but even then it will be easier to reject a couple of settings on the PC than to fork out hundreds dollars in new equipment.
So for me, the decision on when to upgrade will probably come down to one or two exclusive games that everyone is talking about. It will not be Spider-Man: Miles Morales or Horizon: Forbidden West, since I will be able to play both on PS4, and it won’t be any of Microsoft’s own games like Infinite Halo, since I will be able to reproduce them on PC.
If I had to guess I’d say I’ll probably end up upgrading for a big third-party release like Grand theft auto 6, or the second part of Final Fantasy VII remake (if / when announced). Given the tendencies of their publishers to release PC ports of their games a year or more after the release of their original console, I think any of them might push me to buy a new machine to play them day one.
Chaim Gartenberg: I’ll probably get a PS5 at some point, because I’d like to play God of War, West horizon forbidden, and the other presumably good PS5 exclusives Sony will have in the future (and so that my co-workers will stop teasing me for not buying a next-gen PS4 console).
But I’m not buying a PS5 at launch because I don’t make any sense at the moment. The same goes for the Xbox Series X / S – it doesn’t play anything that my first-gen Xbox One doesn’t, although I could upgrade at some point if there’s a decent trade-in offer, just for the future. Maybe that will change once next-gen games start to come out, but right now neither Microsoft nor Sony feels like rushing me for a new console just yet.
TC Sottek: The last console I bought was an Xbox One X. I played it for a total of about 3 hours and then gave the console to my brother. Before that, I had a PlayStation 4 that I used to play around a third of The witcher 3 before giving up. When the world comes up with a controller that won’t hurt my hands after 30 minutes of use, I’ll consider going back to consoles. I’d let Elon Musk chip my brain before I pick up the joysticks again.
