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- This week, Microsoft and Sony

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launched their big next gen consoles

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in the Xbox series and PS5.

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Now that the reviews are up on the site,

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I wanted to invite my editor, Alex Cranz,

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to talk about the next gen consoles

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and really battle out to
figure out which one's better.

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PS5 or Xbox?

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- It's the Xbox.

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- Its just not, but, we'll get into that.

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I think the most divisive
thing about these systems,

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it doesn't even really have to do anything

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with how they play,

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but we got to talk about the designs.

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(Cranz chuckling)

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- Well yeah, I mean,
there's the PlayStation 5,

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which really went for it.

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The Series X is very, very boring,

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but I kinda like it cause like whatever.

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What I do like is the Series S,

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which is the smaller way wimpier one.

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'Cause it's actually
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it looks neat.

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- It's very small, it's
cute, it's got that,

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like kinda two tone thing going on similar

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to the PlayStation, but it's like,

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no one is really like objecting to it

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in a way that they are the PS5.

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- Right, because I can
stack the Xbox Series S

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on top of other things.

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And you can't do that with a PS5.

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It's just so swoopy and big.

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But what I thought was really interesting

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is you actually like the PlayStation 5.

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- Yeah, I kinda like it.

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- Why?
- It's futuristic.

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I think more than a half of
like the Gizmodo tech crew

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just absolutely hates it.

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But I think in a way like Sony kind of won

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because people are talking about it,

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in like, so regardless
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or you hate it, it's like, it's iconic.

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You see that thing is,

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oh, you know that's the PlayStation.

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- But I don't think that's enough to win

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because I think the Series S
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but with a much more pleasant,

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much more comforting, design.

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- Sure, it's less of obnoxious,

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it's less in your face.
- Yeah.

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- All right, so next up is performance.

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Can you give me the
rundown of what the Xbox X

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and the S are working with.

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- So, the GPU in the Xbox Series X

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is actually way, way way more powerful

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than the GPU in the Series S

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and you really see that

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because one is intended to do 4K play,

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one is intended to do 1440p.

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But there's also other
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has 16 gigabytes of Ram, and
the series S only has 10.

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And it's only got a 512
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which is just not enough.

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It was just, it felt wimpy.

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I kind of think of it, I was
showing the both consoles

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to my brother and explaining them to him

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a couple of days ago.

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And he looked really, really sad

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when he looked at the
series S and he's like,

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"Oh, that's for little kids."

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He was just like, that's
one that like parents

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who kind of know they need
to get an Xbox for their kid,

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and they're not really paying attention,

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that's the one they get.

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- It's almost like the
parent who buys her kids

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Mega Bloks instead of Legos.

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- Yeah, a hundred percent.

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It's just like, "Oh, really!"

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- So, in some ways,
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a much more straight forward approach

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because there's the Standard PS5 at $500.

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And then there's the PS5
Digital Edition at $400.

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They're the exact same console,

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except that Digital Edition

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does have ultra HD Blu-ray
disc drive, that's it.

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Although there is one
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PS5 has in comparison to the Series X,

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is that the series of X
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and you get about 800,

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a little bit more than
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Where does the PS5 gets 885 gig SSD,

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but only 667 gigs is usable.

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You know, when games now,

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like there's a lot of games
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a 100 gigs, suddenly that
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It is nice that Sony
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to expand the PS5 storage.

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They're gonna put out a
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that work with the PlayStation 5,

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but they haven't gotten
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- Whereas on the Xbox Series X,

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I can just go get a stupid little card

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and shove it in the back
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and I'm good to go.

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- And how much are you getting for $200?

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(Cranz laughing)

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- I mean, maybe only a terabyte.

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- The next thing I wanna talk
about quickly is controllers

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because Sony's kind of doing something

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interesting with theirs,

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but it feels like Microsoft
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with the Xbox Series controllers.

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- Microsoft played it super safe.

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I think this was the most annoying thing

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coming into this
conversation with you about.

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Is like, I know I got him
to beat on like speeds

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and storage and stuff.

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I know I got him to beat on design,

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but like when it comes to controllers,

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the Xbox Series X and the
series S is just boring.

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It's just, if you've used
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for your PC or for your Xbox,
you've used the controller.

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But the only difference is
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in the middle, which is really helpful,

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that's it, like and it boggles my mind

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because Xbox has a really,
really good controller.

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They made that elite controller
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and then they're like,
okay, yeah, you spent $500.

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Here's just, I got a share button for you.

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Your controller sounds awesome.

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- The big changes are on the inside

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because the dual sense control,

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it's not even the dual shock anymore.

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It's the dual sense controller.

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It has advanced haptics
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So, first I got to say Astro's Playroom,

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which comes with the PS5,
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If you get a PS5 just play
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It kinda really introduces
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of the dual sense.

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And so like, you'll have
situations where like,

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you'll be pulling back on a bow

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and the trigger gets tighter
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And it's the same thing for like,

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even like little things,
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like, no fear of riding the
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like the train car bounce over tracks

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through the controller.

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And it's like really
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And it's really, really nice.

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- Every time you talk about
it, I get a little jealous,

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not jealous enough to like go over

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to your house and steal
it, but little jealous.

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- The real big question
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- Ooh, that's...

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I think if you have an Xbox One X

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and you didn't already order
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If you're on an older Xbox, if
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and you wanna move into this,

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if you don't have any 4k
consoles already, get it.

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I think now it's great.

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I think it's gonna be a
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than the Series S.

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I think the Series S,

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is going to be done in two to three years.

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Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised

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if we see Xbox announced a
new console in three years.

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- So, I'm kind of like of the same mind

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as like, I don't think anyone
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into upgrading right now.

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A lot of the new Sony games,

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like Spider-Man: Miles Morales,

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that's gonna be available on PS5 and PS4.

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However, I still think like
the PS5 has an early lead.

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What was Xbox is big, like, headline game?

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It was "Halo Infinite".

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Oops, that got delayed
until next year, too.

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- I have Gears 5, which
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on the Xbox One X,

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so now I can play it and
it looks much prettier.

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Okay, so you have games that I don't have.

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I think if you really are passionate

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about Miles Morales, get the PS5.

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If you just want to experience

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what like next level 4K gaming is like,

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you want that whole experience
that you keep seeing

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us write about and keep talk writing about

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and all those other sites
that aren't as good as us,

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the Xbox Series X is the way to go.

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And then you get the Xbox Series S

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if you didn't watch any of this video.

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