Console war

From 2001 to 2020, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft traded blows in an endless battle of hardware and software.

The console wars followed the same business pattern that rules nearly all consumer electronics, where winners rarely stay on top.

The leader of one generation would almost always stumble in the next, brought down by hubris, disruption, or both.

Whatever market share they lost would get immediately absorbed by their rivals, who would seize this opening to rise to the top, only to eventually stumble in different ways.

Sony countered with PS3 exclusives like Uncharted and God of War 3, but the Xbox would ultimately win the hype and headlines in this generation.

Yet the order would reverse once more in the mid-2010s, with Microsoft falling into the trap of its own success and Sony taking back its spot at the top.

Now a decade later, in the mid-2020s, the console wars have ended, not with a bang, but a whimper.

As a distant third in hardware sales for two consecutive generations, the Xbox today is barely part of the conversation.

We did our Midnight at GameStop.

Then we did our Console Wars.

Specifically, you know, we focused in that episode very old school.

We did get a little modern, but it was the big focus was on the older Console Wars.

It

was more, like, and that's what the 360 PS3 was the one that I feel like we...

so this was my first big rant because this is when I found out that Yota did not win anything, and I was very, very, very, very, very upset.

yes and and Ghost of Yotei um not Ghost of Yotei see even you got me thinking Yotei the other thing about Pocket Power though is it was the first episode and it's early it's episode 7 where it kind of came up in a previous episode and we're like we need to do an episode about that it was about the

No, no, here comes the rooster here."

I'm a veteran of the Console Wars.

[laughs] [coughs] You're not gonna catch me doing no Stolen Valor.

No, sir.