Buying Next-Gen Consoles is Way Too Convoluted for this Casual Gamer
As someone whose been playing Skate 2 since 2009, it is more than overwhelming when trying to upgrade my casual set-up and so I tried my best to make sense of the new world of gaming that's left me by.
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As a proud casual gamer, who has only owned two consoles in his life, I can say - without much doubt - that the world of gaming today, is a strange and confusing beast. So since today is Xbox day, and I’m torn between getting an Xbox Series X, or S or the PS5, I thought together we’d look at what it takes to buy a new console after ten longer years of playing Skate 2 on my Xbox 360.
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“Designed from the inside out,” both tells me nothing and means nothing to me. Also, “combining hardware and software innovations with intentional engineering”, sounds like lawyer speak for saying, we made it better than the last one. But that doesn’t sound as cool as buying the “monolithic zenith of speed and performance.”
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But next, it asked me to select Series X/S optimized games and I had to Google what that meant. Man being a parent must suck. I would hate to buy a four hundred dollar game box only to not optimize it for my child’s maximum “multi-player live presence I-cloud save” enjoyment. I know, that doesn’t make sense, but this is how it feels being out of the loop.
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I do know this, it seems getting the package with the game pass it best and cheaper in the long run. Not having to buy those expensive games make the price of the console and pass worth it. Though like I said, I haven’t bought a new console in five years, and if one day my copy of Skate 2 got up and walked away, I’d be left with a big hunch a junk. So, I’m still torn and even more confused than I was to begin with.