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I'm currently neglecting my fairly decent and expensive gaming PC with GamePass because I prefer the PS5, but AFAIK Xbox has pretty much 95 % of games that we have on PS and we have 95 % of games that they have..? I'd actually love to play some Forza Horizon and Stalker 2 and the new Elder Scrolls game when they come out and I guess some Xbox users would love to play God of War or Spider Man 2 when it comes out. What makes PS so much better for you?

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Are God of War and Spider-Man comparable to Elder Scrolls?

GoW seems to be available on Steam, but doesn't even hit top 100 currently played.

Both PlayStation and Xbox have some really hard hitting exclusives comparable to the Elder Scrolls series, but my intention was not to start a pissing contest of who has the most or the best.

It is not exactly a pissing contest. The point is that Microsoft bought Bethesda, so theoretically they can make it exclusive to Xbox and start using it as a leverage. I question "comparable" here. The available data suggests they really are not.

It's hard to make a direct comparison because they're trying to do different things. God of War and Spider-Man were released on PC 4 years after their console versions.

As someone who's looking forward to both new Elder Scrolls and Spider-Man 2, I've only considered buying a console for the second: I'll just update my PC for the first.

just for your information es6 wont be out for 5+ years

Yeah, but that just proves my point further: having more exclusives only matters to the point that the exclusives drum up interest; which for my household won't happen with Microsoft for another 5+ years unless they get a surprise in there.

I feel they are different genres. The former 2 are cinematic games. The latter is a huge RPG.

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