the only interest I have considering I'm a broke high school graduate, is that games will be better optimized to run on SSDs now for PC

Currently play my Fallout games on an Xbox One S, and I will be getting an Xbox Series X.

I'd like to migrate fully to PC, especially since the only friend I play Xbox with also seems interested in building a PC, but I'll need to wait and see. PC are expensive as hell, and they honestly seem to go obselete faster than consoles now. That might not have been true in the 360/PS3 era where I would go through like 4 consoles for various reasons, but I've had Xbox Ones since damn near day one, and I'm only on the 2nd console (first one has a broken disk reader) and it still works perfectly as far as I can tell. Meanwhile a PC from the same time would cost twice as much to be competitive and lose its luster in half the time. The main reason I want a PC is so I can stop fracturing my multiplayer opportunities by having certain games on PC and certain games on Xbox. With crossplay on the rise, that might be less of an issue though in the near future.

@Sigmund Fraud if you give me a budget I can help you out, I've become pretty adept at designing part configurations

Here lets rename them on how they look binder box 5 fridge x

I think the last console I owned was the 360 because my brother gave me his, but I've ascended to PC since then. Consoles don't look appealing enough to me anymore

PC all the way, most games come out on PC and if you have a good one it will be a couple of consoles before you have to get a new one. It's also much more useful

Consoles are more affordable than PC for the majority of users, for $500 you can run every game which is definitely not possible with a $500 PC.

I got both ps5 and series x.

Cool. Let us know which one is better.