GameStop declares the end of the Console Wars

[Spectro. Spectro.]

The console wars have been dead for me since I owned a Playstation 2, GameCube, and an Xbox. The best of all three worlds.

 

[CheesyExplosive]

i think i found the as to why "game" has "stop"

 

[Mechablade-X]

Lord Gaben has reign supreme champion, now open your wallets

 

[elwynd16x]

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"The system is mine! Your IP's and exclusives are no longer your own!"

 

[moonbits]

Lord Gaben has reign supreme champion, now open your wallets

no I don't want to compile shaders and fix .ini files
go away pc zealot

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

It is a funny post ngl, but if you told me that PlayStation was going to win the console war back in 2008-2009, I would have just laughed.

A pity to be sure, I really hope someone else comes ready give Sony a run for their money. Nobody actually benefits from not competition.

And yes, even if exclusives werent exactly short-term beneficial for players, in the long run it where, because if forced hardware companies to invest in new and better ways to compete withe their rivals. A good example is Killzone, a really not that great, not that bad fps from the PS2, it should have been canned and move to another IP. But Sony needed something to compete to Halo so they give a green light to the sequel that was amazing.

 

[TheSoulWalker TheSoulWalker]

Always felt that the Console Wars died off during the PS2/GC/Xbox Era where it started to become more about the third party games and less about the first party games available later in the life of those consoles. Call of Duty and Battlefield really cemented that during PS3/360 era.

 

[trickybus]

no I don't want to compile shaders and fix .ini files
go away pc zealot

As someone who had to edit .ini files to play the crappy PC port of an Epic Store game in the past month, I felt this in my soul

 

[moonbits]

As someone who had to edit .ini files to play the crappy PC port of an Epic Store game in the last month, I felt this in my soul

thats what you get for using epic store

 

[SeventhSon]

Genesis v Super Nintendo was the console wars. Anything after is some nWo with Stevie Ray and Virgil in it kind of war

an image from the forgotten console war

 

[trickybus]

thats what you get for using epic store

I did it so that I wouldn't use the Epic Store!

 

[urbancowboy]

Lord Gaben has reign supreme champion, now open your wallets

Does nothing and wins

 

[PhaseJump]

I'm all in on Steam Machines. A fremont box with a new steam controller needs to show up. Give it a discrete GPU bump and support external ones. Let's fucking go.

Xbox was my preferred console for decades, but the same old obfuscation and bullshit around the marketing, the rumor of the next platform going from it maybe being a PC running an Xbox app with ported BC, to actually being more like a locked down Xbox Series upgraded console running Windows desktop in a secondary mode you break out into, it all just sucks to think about.

Needing to kick One and Series consoles into paywalled developer mode is a slow and tedious pain in the ass. Them cracking down on the same apps that got through their store on retail mode, disabling them is just another pain in the ass and a fuck you to their customers.

 

[GeraVet106]

I never saw it as a console war, but rather as options, and you choose the one you like best, and you decide whether to stick with the same company or switch, just like with other brands.

 

[urbancowboy]

I'm all in on Steam Machines. A fremont box with a new steam controller needs to show up. Give it a discrete GPU bump and support external ones. Let's fucking go.

Xbox was my preferred console for decades, but the same old obfuscation and bullshit around the marketing, the rumor of the next platform going from it maybe being a PC running an Xbox app with ported BC, to actually being more like a locked down Xbox Series upgraded console running Windows desktop in a secondary mode you break out into, it all just sucks to think about.

Needing to kick One and Series consoles into paywalled developer mode is a slow and tedious pain in the ass. Them cracking down on the same apps that got through their store on retail mode, disabling them is just another pain in the ass and a fuck you to their customers.

Same, Steam Deck is a amazing device and would be open to a home entertainment system. They really improved linux gaming with proton.

I used to be Xbox / Windows person, kinda moved on since 2020. I got sick of bloat, spying and Microshafts fuckery. I would never buy one of their future handhelds, it will be locked down + ads.

 

[Retro Doomer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1982213786221109263

Well Gamestop is over in Germany..not even sure if I want to read the article,sigh maybe I do it later perhaps.Its been ages since I bought a new game the newest was either Elden Ring or Ghost of Tsushima I got.I get rarely Pc games but only potato computer aproved once

 

[bjork]

an image from the forgotten console war

They released so close to each other, that seemed so crazy at the time. The Game Boy wasn't far off from then either, at least all in the US. I like that this might be the only time some of these characters graced a magazine cover, heh

 

[UnDubious]

The Legendary Axe guy vs Ax Battler is an interesting faceoff because that might be the only one the Turbografx-16 side can win. I like Golden Axe but LA is great. Different types of games, though.

 

[bjork]

The Legendary Axe guy vs Ax Battler is an interesting faceoff because that might be the only one the Turbografx-16 side can win. I like Golden Axe but LA is great. Different types of games, though.

I might take Side Arms over the Genesis version of Forgotten Worlds too.

I really like the guy from Zoom! being on the cover. Zero business being on there. "Come on BOY"

 

[VampireFreak]

Genesis v Super Nintendo was the console wars. Anything after is some nWo with Stevie Ray and Virgil in it kind of war

If only SEGA had listened to the Prophets of Doom and didn't try to chance away the new trend of ultra low-quality 3D and doubled down on the 2D capacity of their console and actual IPs we now would be living in the pixel-art utopia and not the ultra-realistic graphics dictatorship.

 

[PhaseJump]

If only SEGA had listened to the Prophets of Doom and didn't try to chance away the new trend of ultra low-quality 3D and doubled down on the 2D capacity of their console and actual IPs we now would be living in the pixel-art utopia and not the ultra-realistic graphics dictatorship.

That bold and spicy plan didn't work out too well for NEC or Atari.

 

[VampireFreak]

That bold and spicy plan didn't work out too well for NEC or Atari.

Right, but Atari also thought the horrible mess of the E.T. game was going to be a blockbuster and produced so many copies they had to bury them in the middle of the desert in a bizarre move that now has trascended to the status of urban legend. Their executives weren't the smartest.

 

[PhaseJump]

Right, but Atari also thought the horrible mess of the E.T. game was going to be a blockbuster and produced so many copies they had to bury them in the middle of the desert in a bizarre move that now has trascended to the status of urban legend. Their executives weren't the smartest.

Two different companies.

 

[SeventhSon]

The Legendary Axe guy vs Ax Battler is an interesting faceoff because that might be the only one the Turbografx-16 side can win. I like Golden Axe but LA is great. Different types of games, though.

Ninja Spirit and a whole host of shooters can trounce games on Genesis. EZ

 

[UnDubious]

Ninja Spirit and a whole host of shooters can trounce games on Genesis. EZ

...on the magazine cover above.

Also Ninja Spirit is okay at best, every single 2D Shinobi is better except maybe Cyber Shinobi.