I want Microsoft to give me single player story and narrative driven games as well but first and foremost, they have to be in a genre I care about and the quality has to be good or better. I do believe that Halo Infinite, Hellblade 2 and Fable will give this to me.
Sony's single player games have been great for the most part but I have been disappointed with a few (Uncharted 4, TLOUP2, etc.) of them and not interested at all in others.
Right now, im looking at my future log games list and I have the following exclusives for both consoles -
XBOX SERIES X -
- Fable
- Gears Tactics (console)
- Halo Infinite
- Hellblade II: Senua's Saga
- The Ascent
PLAYSTATION 5 -
- Horizon II: Forbidden West
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- Returnal
- Spider Man: Miles Morales
There's plenty more to come and the consoles haven't even launched yet. If I compare the above lists to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One seven years ago, oh man, the above list slaughters it so im super hyped for both consoles. I do play way more third party multi-platform games (75% to 25%) which will always be the case for me anyway so unless that declines, exclusives are awesome and everything but they've never been the be all end all for me.
With all of that said, Xbox Series X will be FAR SUPERIOR to Xbox One when it comes to quality single player story and narrative driven exclusives (hell, on paper, it already is) and PlayStation 5 will be better than PlayStation 4.
Regardless of everyone's console of choice, you won't go wrong either way.