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Not sure either. I have a series S, a switch lite and a PS5. Haven’t used a Series X yet.
Main obstacle I see is, the PS5 runs some PS4 games really well, cool exclusives like Bloodborne, Gravity Rush, Tearaway… what’s the Xbox got? Did Xbox One have gaems?
Backwards compatibility is actually where xbox shines. A solid amount of games from the 360 and xbone will play right off the disk on a series x. When they drop in price they’ll be worth picking up as a retro machine.
Meanwhile sony has a pathetic library of their classics and you have to rebuy them all digitally.
I disagree =) I mean sure, it plays a couple 360 games but A) it’s like 600 out of a library of 2100, which is a step back from the 360’s already poor ~570/1100 original Xbox games, B) while good stuff like Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are available, it’s missing a bunch of critical 360 bangers like PGR 3 and 4, Amped 3, the Forza Motorsport games, basically anything with licensing issues is screwed forever. On the PS3 I did not have to wait for Sony to work out the rights on the Wipeout Fusion soundtrack before putting it in my PS3!
A lot of the 360 BC is filled out with games that are way better either on PC or in a modern rerelease on SX: original Mass Effect 3 is backward compat? Okay… Looking at it pragmatically, a PS5 completely replaces a PS4, and runs literally every game (bar like three nobody cares about) better than a PS4. A Series X will never be a 360 replacement, I still need a 360, so I don’t think SX BC is that useful. I would rather have the full PS4 library than like a quarter of 360 games. I have to keep both a 360 and PS3 anyway, so…
