re: I know nothing about consoles, is the Xbox Series X still a good buy?

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I can vouch for it, I have always had Xbox going back to the original one in 2003 but resisted Gamepass till this past year and I absolutely love it.

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And as has been mentioned already, it's great for getting people into games that aren't in their normal comfort zone. It might have been a hard sell to convince a friend of mine to get into a metroidvania puzzle platformer, but they loved Ori and the Blind Forest.