Xbox 360 VS Playstation 3 - The console war of the 2000s

[Sweetmint]

how?

It was the only console that lasted without breaking. JK, i thought it won the console wars because it was the most successful 7th gen console at the time especially after ps3 and 360 screwed up. but who knows i wasn't paying attention to the other consoles back then.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

By different game you mean not the hardcore gamers?

I don't know what's the deal with that but I'd argue that hardcore gaming wasn't really on the PS360 either: it was an era where AAA became less demanding as well.

You could argue some exceptions like Bayonetta, Devil May Cry and other action games were on them but ultimately there wasn't a dichotomy of casual vs hardcore only between the Wii and PS360. Most were probably doing retrogaming or playing specific indie games like Super Meat Boy.

 

[Sweetmint]

I don't know what's the deal with that but I'd argue that hardcore gaming wasn't really on the PS360 either: it was an era where AAA became less demanding as well.

You could argue some exceptions like Bayonetta, Devil May Cry and other action games were on them but ultimately there wasn't a dichotomy of casual vs hardcore only between the Wii and PS360. Most were probably doing retrogaming or playing specific indie games like Super Meat Boy.

Interesting but true most were probably doing retro gaming or playing indie. but i didn't find out about indie games til 2014 because fnaf & retro games i got into in 2022. so i don't think everyone knew about it unless i misread that last sentence ?

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Interesting but true most were probably doing retro gaming or playing indie. but i didn't find out about indie games til 2014 because fnaf & retro games i got into in 2022. so i don't think everyone knew about it unless i misread that last sentence ?

The Wii had that "for toddlers and old people in retirement houses" reputation because of some of the games but then family games started more or less in the middle end of the PS2 era, it was just one evolution of gaming that Nintendo focused on when making the DS and Wii.

I could even argue that if you wanted hardcore games there were MadWorld, Sin & Punishment Star Successor, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Punch-Out, MM9 and so on.

 

[Sweetmint]

The Wii had that "for toddlers and old people in retirement houses" reputation because of some of the games but then family games started more or less in the middle end of the PS2 era, it was just one evolution of gaming that Nintendo focused on when making the DS and Wii.

I could even argue that if you wanted hardcore games there were MadWorld, Sin & Punishment Star Successor, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Punch-Out, MM9 and so on.

True Monster hunter tri on wii is technically hardcore but that came out i think 2009? but anyway yep the wii was seen as more casual because it was for everyone and then Microsoft and Sony tried copying Nintendo because it was successful when the Wii did it XD

 

[SeventhSon]

I don't know what's the deal with that but I'd argue that hardcore gaming wasn't really on the PS360 either: it was an era where AAA became less demanding as well.

You could argue some exceptions like Bayonetta, Devil May Cry and other action games were on them but ultimately there wasn't a dichotomy of casual vs hardcore only between the Wii and PS360. Most were probably doing retrogaming or playing specific indie games like Super Meat Boy.

Agree, and add specific cheesemints like CoD4 Mile High Club on highest difficulty. Games in general became far less "demanding" and permit the player to just "bully" their way through to completion without having to really master or overly engage with game mechanics.