Every kid who grew up gaming had a version of this dream: owning every console, playing everything, not having to choose sides.
I am living that dream. I have a PS5, an Xbox Series X, and a gaming PC running an RX 6750 XT on Steam. All three. At the same time. And the honest truth is: it is exactly as good as I imagined, and also completely different from what I expected.
PC is where I spend most of my time
If I am being honest, the gaming PC takes the majority of my sessions. Better visuals, better frame rates, more control over settings, and the sheer breadth of the Steam library make it the platform I default to when I sit down without a specific plan.
The RX 6750 XT punches hard for its tier. High settings, high frames, games that look the way they were meant to look. When I run something like Cyberpunk or Devil May Cry on the PC after playing it on console, the difference is real. It is not just numbers on a benchmark sheet — it is the feeling of a game being fully unlocked.
PC gaming is where I spend the most time, but it is also where I get the most out of every title — higher fidelity, faster frames, and total control.The PC does not have the simplicity of a console. There are settings to tune, drivers to update, the occasional weird crash to chase down. But for me, that trade-off is worth it every single time.
PS5 is a dedicated exclusives machine
My relationship with the PS5 is uncomplicated: I only use it for PlayStation exclusives. That is the rule, and it has kept the platform feeling special rather than redundant.
I have not subscribed to PS Plus. I looked at what it offered and decided that for my usage pattern — exclusives only, no online multiplayer grind — it did not make sense. I buy what I want, I play what I buy, and the library stays tight.
The console sharing situation with my friend is where it gets interesting. We both have PS5s, and with console sharing enabled, we effectively double each other's libraries. He buys something, I play it. I buy something, he plays it. Over time that shared library grows into something neither of us would have built alone.
The PS5 hardware itself is genuinely impressive. The DualSense haptics on certain first-party titles are not a gimmick — they add something real to the experience. And Sony's first-party exclusives, when they land well, are still some of the best productions in gaming. The console earns its place in the setup specifically because of those titles.
Xbox Series X is the room-hopper
The Xbox Series X is the platform I use the least in terms of raw hours, and I mean that as a compliment.
It is not that the hardware is weak — it is one of the most capable machines I own. It is that the Xbox has carved out a very specific and very comfortable role: the plug-and-play session machine I carry room to room.
My bedroom has a projector. When I want a relaxed session — lying back, nothing intense, just a comfortable gaming moment — the Xbox goes in, hooks up, and within minutes I am playing on a big projected screen with zero friction. That portability between rooms and screens is something neither the PS5 nor the PC offers in the same way.
Why Game Pass changed how I approach Xbox
Game Pass is genuinely one of the best deals in gaming, and it changes how I approach the Xbox entirely.
Day-one access to first-party titles without buying them individually means I can try things I would not have bought otherwise. Racing games, strategy games, smaller indie titles — the kind of content I would have skipped at full price becomes easy to pick up on a Tuesday evening just to see how it feels.
The library is always there. I do not have to plan for it. I do not have to wait for a sale. I open the Xbox, open Game Pass, and something interesting is almost always waiting.
For a platform I use less than the other two in terms of raw hours, Game Pass makes sure those hours feel genuinely valuable every single time.
I have Game Pass, which makes every day-one Xbox title accessible without the planning that buying individual PS5 games requires. The combination of effortless room-to-room portability and a subscription that removes purchase friction makes the Xbox exactly the right tool for when I want gaming to feel completely laid-back.
Picking a platform based on mood, not habit
The real system that emerged from owning all three is mood-based. There is no rigid schedule, no loyalty, no platform that gets first access to my time as a rule. It is simpler than that:
| Mood | Platform | | --- | --- | | Relaxed session in the bedroom, projector on | Xbox Series X | | PlayStation exclusive, nothing else will do | PS5 | | Performance, visuals, highest fidelity, long session | PC | | Game Pass day-one curiosity | Xbox Series X | | Something both me and my friend want to explore | PS5 via console share |
That framework sounds obvious, but it took time to settle into it naturally. The early months of owning all three felt like I needed to justify each platform. Now it just flows. I reach for what fits the moment.
Re-buying games across platforms, and having zero regrets
Here is the thing people find hardest to understand about my setup: I re-buy games I love on multiple platforms. Cyberpunk 2077. Devil May Cry. A handful of others. I own them in more than one place, intentionally.
Re-buying is not a mistake. It is a strategy for access, preservation, and always having the right version available for the mood or the platform.The reasoning is straightforward. On PC I get the highest fidelity version. On PS5 I get it as part of a shared library with my friend. On Xbox it is there if I want a casual playthrough without being at a desk. Each copy serves a different purpose.
It also means the library I share with my friend keeps growing across both our accounts. We buy together, we buy individually, and over time the catalogue becomes something neither of us would have assembled alone. It sounds like wasted money from the outside. From the inside, it feels like permanent access to things I care about.
The hardware behind the PC — RX 6750 XT
The RX 6750 XT is the card doing most of the heavy lifting on the PC side. It sits in the sweet spot for high-settings 1080p and strong 1440p performance, which covers most of what I actually play.
AMD's driver situation has improved significantly over the past couple of years, and for the kinds of games I run — action games, open-world titles, racing games — the card handles everything with headroom to spare. Combined with fast storage and a solid CPU, it makes the PC feel genuinely premium for every session.
The visual difference between the PC version and console versions of the same game is most obvious in titles that let you push resolution and frame rate simultaneously. That combination is where the RX 6750 XT earns its place in the setup, and it is why the PC remains the platform I reach for when I want to experience a game the way the developers intended at maximum quality.
Every kid's dream, and it lives up to it
I am not going to pretend this setup is practical for everyone. It is not. Three platforms, the hardware behind each, the games across all of them — it is expensive and it is indulgent and I know that.
But growing up, this was the dream. Every kid who had to choose between platforms, who watched the exclusives on the other side and felt the pull of them, who wondered what it would be like to just have all of it — this is that.
And it lives up to it. Not because every session is some transcendent gaming experience, but because the choice is always there. The right platform for the right mood is always available. There is no compromise, no exclusion, no waiting.
