Im not much of a gamer (ironically I make games for a living) but I made a bet with my kids that if the Detroit Lions make the playoffs this year I’ll buy them a system, and its looking like almost a lock to happen, so I want to get in on some Holiday deals.
This is their first non-Nintendo system so I’m a little lost on which way to go at this point in the generation cycle. For reference they’re 7 and 9 year old boys and are gonna be new to gaming that isnt based around crafting or Italian brothers. (i made them use my old NES, then SNES first, then got them a Switch a couple years back)
Xbox has more kid friendly stuff i’d argue (if thats what your going for), a good chunk of the games are either rated E for everyone or T for teen. Its also got a monthly subscription service called gamepass that gives you a bunch of games that you can play for (basically) free if your looking for something more cost effective.
The only problem is the storage it gets, 1 terabyte isn’t much for how much space certain games take up and you’ll likely end up buying an ssd for your console to hold more games
I couldn’t really tell you much about the ps5, the last ps console I owned was a ps2 ages ago.