The phrase
"console wars" refers to the competition and rivalry between different video game console manufacturers. It typically involves companies vying for dominance in the market and trying to attract more players to buy their gaming systems.
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I am now up to late 2007, otherwise known as «the last round
of console wars have entered full flame».
Online gaming, or at least online gaming as us console players know it, was in its infancy and the world was ready for a
new console war.
So just what else can this little console do and how will it fit into the up
coming console war?
Now, with plenty of titles looking to fully explore the capabilities of both sets of hardware, the real
console war begins.
There's a point when you know, culturally, that your choice of console meant that you supported the losing side in the
ongoing console wars.
In the end, it's important to remember that this is going to be a very
long console war.
The fact that no one knew or cared about this shows just how little all this shit matters outside of
petty console wars on either side.
With the
recent console wars, us being so different from each other and me being a lone wolf I never really connected to the community.
Indeed, the last pieces of the puzzle are beginning to fall into place ahead of the next -
gen console war.
But it was the system's robust third - party support which truly made it such an essential purchase during the 16 -
bit console war.
It turns out that the Xbox One got shipped to Li because it was being kept out in the open at Microsoft to try and trick lower level employees into thinking it wasn't top secret, this was during the heated
console wars between Microsoft and Sony and employee espionage was a serious concern.
It's not the kind of feature that
wins console wars in itself - previous generations have shown that people are happy to hold onto their old consoles and games - but the impact on the battle of perceptions shouldn't be understated.
If a great history book is ever written
about console wars waged between video game hardware manufacturers, then E3 2013 will be regarded as the moment when the arms race reached its fever pitch.
Sony Interactive Entertainment has the clear lead in this generation of
console wars with over 46 million PlayStation 4s in homes around the world.
In lieu of that luxury, once I reached the sixth generation, I noticed that I began to lean more on one side of the inevitable and never -
ending console war than the other.
Tom's Guide: It may seem like the PS4 has already won the latest
console war by a landslide, with over 50 million players and a bigger library of must - have exclusives.
There are no losers (except Nintendo) in the epic Microsoft -
Sony console war so far.
The Xbox One X doesn't have that yet, but Microsoft is on the right track by locking down exclusives such as Metro Exodus, the company needs to continue moves like this to stand a chance of shaking up the
current console war climate.
I think xbox and playstation should get dlc / map packs at the same time to
stop console war arguments: /
If you are trying to make some kind of
console war flame bait statement I'll come back with FH2 sold 266k copies on an install base of under 6 mm and DC sold ONLY 356k copies on an install base of ~ 12 mm.
I mean there are all sorts of places where you can talk Nintendo news on the interwebs, get
into console wars or argue in circles over what role Daisy or Waluigi even serve in the series... but (barring an unprecedented influx in knuckleheads) there's no better adjusted set of Mario series commentators with a wider knowledge of it's highs and lows than on MPL.
While console wars are entirely understandable due to branding and consumers having to pick a side because of financial responsibilities (in regards to not shelling out thousands of dollars to own every piece of gaming equipment imaginable), Microsoft is usually pretty adult about understanding that even their competitors can do something right in this industry.
Investing in first - party titles will be a major theme in the Xbox One and
PS4 console war, and Microsoft has started off on the right foot.
The
early console wars between Sony, Nintendo, and Sega created a whole generation of platformers which changed the landscape of game development...
It goes without saying that Tomb Raider will without a doubt be one of the last great games of this generation before an all new
console war starts out.
I have forty - seven PSN platinum trophies for God's sake — In short, if anything, I'm a Sony fanboy minus the whiny
console war BS.
In fact, the
last console war that really mattered — the one in which a choice meant siding with one of two fundamentally different approaches to what a console should be — happened all the way back in the mid-to-late 1990s, in a world of corduroy Billabong jackets, TGIF, and pop - punk.
I know that people
want console wars, but that is not happening with the Switch and the PS4 or Xbox One.
How surreal would it be having Mario, Sonic, and Crash in a fighting game for those of us who were around in those hostile
console war days?
When I sit down to enjoy the thing I am most passionate about (except for healthcare), I
forget console wars and I just enjoy playing video games.
The game makes light of
game console wars such as Sega versus Nintendo, and Sony versus Microsoft at present.