How Nintendo Switch Won the Console Wars 

There really haven't been any console wars since the Wii. Nintendo was always in their own lane and the other two are basically interchangable.

In my eyes, Nintendo was always winning the console wars, even during the Wii U era, because they had their IPs and their general idea of "Gameplay first." It's also just so much more convenient to own a Nintendo system, due to the more compact nature, the easier structure of their menus.... ...But being a Nintendo owner also means we have to accept that we live in a timeline where Amiibo Festival existed. Yaaaaayyyyy.....

As someone who suffered through the Wii U era and was rooting for the underdog at the time this console generation has been extremely satisfying

Don't tell Playstation fans that... They will deny Nintendo even counts.

I'm going to be completely honest. I only use my PS5 to watch youtube videos on TV. I pretty much play most of my games on the Switch.

The Nintendo Switch is currently the 2nd most sold console.

Sony WAS NOT betrayed by Nintendo despite that popular belief. The Playstation was originally conceived as a Sony CD player that also played SNES games. Nintendo came to realize that Sony could cut them completely out of their own business by signing separate licensing deals with 3rd parties to develop games just for CD. Once Nintendo realized this, they signed a deal with Phillips to get out of the Sony deal. Nintendo had good reason to be worried about what Sony was planning as they had already got a reputation for cutting companies out of their own business and then buying them out. Sony later approached Sega to collaborate and Sega flat out turned them down. Coincidence? Once the Phillips deal fell through, Nintendo had no choice but to stick with cartridges for their next system, the N64, until they could develop their own proprietary mini-dvd for the GameCube. Nintendo got screwed by Sony and nearly lost their autonomy.

4:00 the Wii U is a genuinely good console and others would know that if they had actually given it a chance instead of just making ignorant assumptions about it from a distance

The PS5 is the best and most expensive way to play my PS4 collection

By daring to be different and doing their own thing even if it’s a bit traditional Nintendo uses limitations to push creativity

I've also heard Nintendo takes really good care of their developers and employees, I really don't understand why PlayStation and Xbox and the rest of the other studios would do the exact same thing. It would give them huge improvements and definitely help out their brand easily for other studios to join them! Unfortunately that's the way it goes for them. But hey, I'm really glad Nintendo's doing successful. I hope PlayStation and Xbox do the exact same thing cuz they can easily do it if they follow Nintendo steps which isn't really that hard from my point of view.

10:00 the more detailed a game gets the less personality it has If I really wanna gawk at tree textures I can just go outside and do that in my yard 😂

Getting back into gaming with the Switch has been incredible. Fantastic console with great games.

Being perfectly honest, I haven't used a console except my Switch, and if it counts, my Steam Deck. I own a ps4, but I just used it to watch Twitch on my tv, and now mom uses it in her room for various video apps. I technically have PC games, but with the Deck I can play them on my couch. I refer to myself as being 'spoiled by handhelds' since I can just relax on the couch instead of sitting on a chair.

As a Nintendo fan for decades, starting with Nintendo ds, the Switch was the first device to make me feel that just one Nintendo console is enough for me. as Nintendo fan myself, at least from Nintendo ds era, has always needed a pc or other real consoles to play variety of games that Nintendo couldn't offer. however the Switch's current game library is so large that it would actually provide most people to enough games to enjoy. I think their strategies to making variety of exclusive games with less budget than any others really gets shine in this bloated AAA gaming era of time. every shier franchises seems to gathering all kinds of different fanbases. Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, splatoon, fire emblem, xenoblades, pikmin, Kirby, animal crossing...list goes on. simply there is no other companies that can have this much of variety fanbase while kept everything so cohesive in the same time. If all those rumors about switch 2 is correct, I don't think Nintendo can't lose another console war ever again.

Nintendo didn’t give up on graphics with the GameCube. It was more powerful than the PS2 and could even do some things better than Xbox (even though Xbox was overall more powerful). But I mean, your take is pretty normal, I hear people all the time push the narrative that Nintendo never cared about powerful systems.

We are praying too mutch the Iwata's "cut-in-half salary" saga. It was truly an amazing and heartwarming thing to do that few people would do, but in Japan it's legally really difficult to just fire someone and, I think, culturally is hard too. And if you can't just fire some people, cutting your salary was the next thing. In USA it's super easy to make those big layoffs, especially when you are a servante of money and you don't care about the lifes of the people who lost their jobs, and even in Europe it's starts to becoming the norm. But Japan and Nintendo are a different story

I absolutely agree on game budgets. Lots of games are getting too expensive to make. But Xbox offering options on where and how to play their games being a bad thing? That's strange to me. You mentioned that you picked up Xbox published games on Switch and PC. Having the ability to play those games on your preferred devices rather than being arbitrarily forced to buy a plastic box is nothing but a good thing

You mentioned graphics - I personally think that we're reaching the era where pure power is starting to have diminishing returns. What do I mean? The Last of Us doesn't look 'that' much worse than Hellblade 2 at all, but if you look at PS1 vs PS3 graphics... yeah, the gap is 'significantly' bigger. So, when Nintendo releases Switch 2, it won't matter that it's more or less like PS4 Pro in terms of power (with some modern enhancements/custom solutions). As long as they can port big AAA titles like Cyberpunk and such, they'll be golden; can't wait to see what games Nintendo themselves cook up with more powerful hardware!

A lot of people say Sony and Microsoft shot themselves in the foot but Nintendo really stepped their shit up with the switch. Even tho the wii was a massive success I remember years where stuff like wii music was the big release. The switch on the other hand has dropped amazing 1st party games year after year and have leveraged the insane success of the console to get even more third party developers on their system too

2:17 actually, the gamecube had graphics second to the og xbox, but the rest still stands true

That intro tho, bro had me dying 😂

If any of us has a backlog of games to get to, a lull in new games isn't a bad thing. Gives you time to address that backlog.

Great video! Keep grinding man, you’re gonna hit it big soon enough. These are quality videos you’re pumping out!

How does this channel don't have more views ?

Dude’s failing so hard at being funny that he makes Clayface look like an EGOT

Gonna be honest, there's almost literally no point in owning the PS5 or XBox X, the only worth they have is exclusives, which will release on PC later. You just need a Switch and a PC to have access to 99% of games coming out

Personally I don't even count the Switch as part of the 9th gen because it's a handheld with the ability to act like a home console and came out 3 years before the 9th gen consoles, giving it a massive advantage in time. I don't really see it as much of a console war win. It's just Nintendo doing their own thing

Ok, you are funny and this video seemed genuinely honest in your assessment. Subscribed!

Yeah, I have had an Xbox for a long time and there is just no reason to play it. Anything I can do on there, I can do on my PC better. Nintendo having the handheld option and actually have their own games makes it way more valuable than PS5 or Xbox.

My second and last xbox, was the 360. That was Xbox's golden era. Now, Nintendo is coming back with a vengance to settle the score once and for all. I have a switch and I love it. I WILL BUY A SWITCH2 when it comes out.

This video proves that Secret Histories Mario is real, making other sabotage their companies, or face certain death, Mario is on top, he always has been

All three companies make mistakes, but Microsoft & Sony are making so many more that Nintendo ends up looking good. The recent Xbox presentation might be their best in a decade (?), but it doesn't excuse the stuff they've been doing recently.

What are your thoughts on the console wars?

You're not the first person I've seen that has this opinion and frankly, I agree. By sales alone, the Switch has sold ~63 million more units than the PS5 and Xbox series X/S COMBINED.

Nice input. I've actually been playing my switch a lot more recently while my ps4 gathers dust. Cheers!

Honestly, the Console Wars started in the 1980’s with the Atari 2600 vs. the Intellivision. Nintendo and Sega only picked up where that rivalry left off after the North American Video Game Crash. Comparing the 1980s Atari Intellivison War to Sega Nintendo one is like comparing World War I to World War II.

0:57 everybody seems to like to leave out that Sony also tried to collab with Sega on a new console but was basically laughed out of the building by them. That came after being betrayed by Nintendo. But nobody ever mentions that

I have had fhis argument over and over again. Switch wins because its game first, nor graphics first. The amount of hours ive dedicated to Splatoon 3 and completing games like Odyssey, Wonder, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Breath of the Wild, and Miitopia are so satisfying. And I'm not even an RPG/Platformer gamer! No shade to PS5 nor Xbox, they have something going for it, that's why they're still around. But let's face it. Nintendo came back like a fireball, and they stand on top of the competition. Hopefully that streak continues into the next phase.

17:23 I miss that man :(

Personally I don't think things will change because it's to late, and I think it's officially over with the announcement of Lego Horizons for the Switch Nintendo has won Sony made a big mistake putting their games on PC Sony and Microsoft just aren't offering anything to combat the rising prevalence of PC, Nintendo is still at least doing things to at least somewhat justify 3rd party exclusives without having to spend extra to secure them Also Sony shouldn't have screwed over the Vita, and now they're repeating that issue for the PS5

I’d argue the switch is the only true games console. It feels like the true evolution of what we know as a dedicated games console. Xbox and PS are soulless media centres that happen to play game (not that there are many worth playing)

the only reason the wiiu genuinely did bad was because many people had a wii and just didnt want it but as a wiiu enjoyer myself its got some bangers

I used to sneer at Nintendo as a kiddie console. Now I am thoroughly converted.

Just wanna put it out there I don't know about console wars but in the handheld division Nintendo has been pretty much undefeated from the Gameboy to the hybrid Switch lol.

This is especially true with that recent June direct

yea nintendo won the "console wars" decades ago

Even though some people say it doesn't count, but it does in a way. Let's not forget Google Stadia which was a cloud gaming platform that Google was trying to advertise as a "console." Google Stadia was heavily criticized since it was announced, and it launched without of its promised features. It was so bad, that Google shut down internal studios in 2021 before a AAA 1st party game came out. The man in charge, Phil Harrison blamed Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda as the reason why the development teams were closed down. In the middle of 2021, Google announced that Google announced that a search bar was finally being added to Stadia, and people started laughing because Google is a search engine company and launched Stadia without a search bar. In the beginning of 2022, it was speculated that Stadia was on its last limb, the Stadia official X account said Stadia wasn't shutting down which aged poorly, because in the fall of 2022, Google officially announced that Stadia would be shutting down in January of 2023 and people would be getting refunds for hardware and game purchases. Many Stadia fanboys raged and blamed Microsoft. Other things in between the beginning and end of Google Stadia, a developer demanded that people should pay devs to stream the games on RU-vid, Google was facing a lawsuit for falsely advertised that all games will in 4K, Google charged people $60 to pretty much rent games, someone pointed out Phil Harrison's failures that he was and executive at Sony during the disastrous PlayStation 3 launch, was an executive at Atari when they filed bankruptcy, was an executive at Gaikai before the company was bought by Sony and was an executive at Microsoft during the disastrous launch Xbox One. During the Microsoft VS FTC court case, a former Stadia employee was pressured into admitting that Stadia didn't have the content to keep Stadia afloat.

I remember when switch came out I bought all the games because there was barley any ending up playing some cool ones like binding of Isaac that I probably never would have touched otherwise. Now it seems I have a never ending list of games to play and about 100 already.

And then Nintendo came out with that Direct recently, incentivising people to buy their Switch (or Switch 2) in the future

My dad bought a PS5 and he is the only one that plays in that console and he just plays FIFA, my Xbox one doesn’t connect to internet no more so why fix it. Ever since I bought the Nintendo Switch I never wanted another console (except PC) and I had more fun with that now it just, wow new games with realistic graphics.

Nope can’t disagree your right 😊

So many people get that opening bit wrong sonic didn't have a rough transition into 3d and the Dreamcast was a PS1 N64 era console but was also a failure for more reasons than the price tag thank you for your time

I started out with the PS1 and PS2 as well, then later got a Wii instead of a PS3. I also never had any Xbox consoles. Switch is the only modern console I have.

One thing I disagree with. I remember Nintendo being in the console wars through the GCN era. GCN graphics were slightly better than PS2 and less than Xbox. When the Wii launched is when they decided to take their own route and move away from competing with graphics and power. They decided to not go HD and the Wii performance was slightly better than GCN. They did not make a major leap in visuals but instead in innovative measures.

Imo the only time nintendo has lost was on wiiu only because people didnt know it was its own system like its all about the games and nintendo always has the best exclusives like the only real exclusives the competition has are gears of war and halo for xbox then on playstation they had sly cooper, jack&daxter, and ape escape all of which are discontinued because they're not big enough money makers

You probably deserve more subs. I'll check another vid of yours to confirm, though I do prefer longer content.

What killed PS and Xbox is that their console suply was shorted and was at higher price than the switch + The end of exclusivity .

One correction, Nintendo opted out of competing with Sony and Microsoft in console power starting with the Wii, not the Gamecube. The Gamecube was actually the MOST powerful of its generation, only being seemingly less capable than the Xbox due to its smaller disk sizes, which meant bigger games with better graphics couldn't even FIT on the damn thing. But for a lot of the games that released on Gamecube that were also released on PS2 and Xbox, for those games the Gamecube version often performed the best. And for first parties Gamecube had some of the best looking first parties of the era, just look at Metroid Prime. Infact the Gamecube was so powerful for its time, the Wii was basically more or less just a juiced up Gamecube, being only 2.5x as powerful as the Gamecube. Compare that to the leap in power from the Xbox to the Xbox 360, let alone the leap from the PS2 to the PS3(which was the biggest leap of that generation).

Is there any advantage to having a PS5 or XBox, if you have access to a mobile phone, PC, Switch and Steam Deck?

Nintendo and even Pokemon too has the most sustainable business model. Going lower-tech and lower-spec was the smart play. Nintendo is one of the only companies that realizes they make video games... not "technology". GAMES. Sony has completely lost this perspective, and I'm not sure that Microsoft ever had this perspective. Nintendo is the last REAL game maker around that happens to also make consoles. I think Nintendo has seen this coming for a long time. With age comes experience, and this company has seen many adversaries rise and fall. Nintendo saw their competitors promising better and better production to the point where there is no return on investment and only their frail fundamental IP to justify hardware. Now the third parties are fleeing and afraid of partnering. Nintendo have been playing the long game and it has paid off in spades. Nintendo thrives in limitations it allows for more creativity Sometimes too much freedom means no direction But within a limitation you can challenge yourself how to be flexible within it like a fun puzzle you experiment with PEOPLE NEED TO STOP GIVING A DAMN ABOUT GRAPHICS IF YOU WANT GOOD GRAPHICS WITH REALISTIC TEXTURES GO OUTSIDE AND HUG A TREE NINTENDO WAS SMART AND REALIZED WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS TOO SLOW TO Nintendo realised long ago that competing in graphics is pointless. No matter how powerful your console is, in a couple of years it is going to be obsolete, and anybody who really cares about graphics is going to buy a PC, because that is where the best graphics are. Instead, Nintendo focuses on their strengths: * Nintendo likes hardware gimmicks, because it makes their console stand out. Nobody bought a Wii because it had the prettiest graphics, they bought a Wii because they wanted to play with the motion controls (An idea so good both the “superior” PS3 and Xbox 360 tried to copy it). The same thing is happening with the Switch: people are buying it because they can play their games anywhere, and can move between a handheld and a home console. They like to focus on giving customers something that they cannot get anywhere else. * When Nintendo did try to compete on power, they didn’t do very well. The N64 and Gamecube were the most powerful consoles of their generations, but were both massively outsold by the “inferior” PS1 and PS2. The Wii was the weakest of its generation, but outsold the PS3 and Xbox 360. This proves Nintendo’s approach to console design clearly has something going for it. * Performance is expensive. Performance is even more expensive when you are using it in niche applications. If Nintendo wanted to have something as powerful as an Xbox One or PS4, while still being portable, then it would probably cost twice as much. This means that Nintendo would have to charge more for the console (probably not something the market could sustain) and/or eat a hefty loss on each console sold. Instead, by not focusing on performance, Nintendo make a profit on each console, and keep it at a price point where more people can afford it. * One of Nintendo’s biggest strengths is their first party titles, all of which rely on stylised graphics and strong art-style. It doesn’t matter that the console is not very powerful when Pokémon, Zelda, Mario (and its millions of spin offs), Smash Bros, Metroid and Donkey Kong are incredibly popular and all don’t care about high end graphics. Why make your console more expensive to make and develop for when you don’t even need it? * The companies that tend to focus on graphics are third party developers, such as EA, Activision, and Rockstar. If the console sells well (like the Switch currently is), then those developers will find a way to bring their games to it or, failing that, make unique games that work best on the hardware. * By not competing with the other consoles, or PCs, in terms of power, while offering unique gaming experiences, Nintendo has comfortably found a niche as an optional second system. If you have a PC, PS4 or Xbox One you have very little reason to buy one of the others, because they are all basically the same. Nintendo’s consoles offer things that none of the others offer, and thus can easily tempt people with another gaming device into purchasing it. * Nintendo has also found a strong market in all ages These people don’t care about graphics, so why waste money on giving them something that they don’t want? An families don’t care that the Switch doesn’t have the best looking games, they’re just happy that they can have fun Ever since the Wii era Nintendo has. Been trying to train us that power doesn’t matter Whimsy and imagination and creativity and memorable experiences are more important to them And y’all still aren’t getting it Move on from Power it don’t matter Nintendo doesn’t want it They think it’s boring They don’t care Official quote from iwata: "Even when we were going to launch the Wii system, there were a lot of voice saying 'Nintendo should stop making hardware'," Iwata recalled, talking to Gamasutra. "The reasoning behind that was Nintendo would not have any chance against Microsoft and Sony. The fact of the matter was: I did not think Nintendo should compete against these companies with the same message and same entertainment options for people. "We have not changed our strategy," he added. "In other words, we just do not care what kind of 'more beef' console Microsoft and Sony might produce in 2013. Our focus is on how we can make our new console different than [others]." The switch is faithful to iwata’s legacy . .

Honestly, a windows license is like 140$, which is mostly profit, since its digital product, while consoles tend to have low to negative margins, so ms is prob making more money with PC gaming anyways.

I grew up a Nintendo and Xbox kid. The Wii and 360 were always interchangeable to me (I even enjoyed the Wii U despite owning significantly less games for it) Nowadays, I don't even see the point in upgrading from Xbox One while I eagerly await whatever comes after the Switch Edit: Scrolling through the comments made me realize I completely forgot about the DS. Uh, yeah, DS and 3DS were absolutely goated for my childhood (didn't see much point in the 2DS though)

One word. Exclusives.

This is why the switch out sold that PlayStation 4 1. It was incredibly cheap to manufacture 2. It's easier to carry your room 3. It was incredibly easy to Port games to so therefore it had an amazing library of ports water down ports in old games on it 4. It has an amazing library of four player games so if you have friends or a family you're not going to regret buying one 5. It's the library is f****** huge it has so many diverse genres no matter what you're into they have it 6. I can keep going to naming amazing games but I lost count around 483 7. The fact that the concert was feeling good even to this day with outdated hardware from 2005 is amazing

The Wii and then the Nintendo DS, no one has ever been able to touch Nintendo. I just hope PlayStation and Xbox learn from this and continue forward. The console wars are good for everyone

Do you blink? I swear I haven’t seen one and your eyes looked so watery

Sega won because they haven't had a console fail in years

Hot take maybe PlayStation and Xbox should start going back to weaker hardware it would save them

A big AAA game needs about 400 employees to be made. Sony has done a lot of Layoffs let's say about 20000 they throw 50 first party games out the window. Microsoft is even worse. Nintendo on the other hand has been increasing its employees lately. They have bought and built new studios such as Shiver and Pokemon Works

By having a fun game play

2:02 Who cares about PS3 versus Xbox 360? That was a battle for second place. The Wii dominated those consoles.

Dang thats a funny thumbnail

Nintendo won 2 of the last 3 console wars they outsold with the Wii & Switch

It's even more apparent now, after that last Nintendo Direct. Switch is finishing out strong.

I own the Switch and the Xbox X and refuse to buy PS5 after they erased people's digital libraries. Having said that I think the Xbox X will be the last Xbox console I buy. If consoles go fully digital then I'm out. Hopefully the Switch 2 sticks with those mini cartridges. If I'm going to pay $100 for a game then I want a physical copy too!

like that pokemon blue you have there

Because Nintendo is the only game company left?

You guys are lucky because at launch in Australia, games were $85 dollars or higher! And thats still the case now! (I'm talking in AUD)

Idk why yall hate the Wii U it was so good, the system had a soul with the home screen and how many games you could play.

You still have to pay for online multiplayer on the Switch though. And you have to use the Nintendo store to buy their games at their rates (always 60-70 USD no matter the game, whether it's old, a remake, remaster, small in scope or massive in scope) I'm sorry but the steamdeck is out now and it's simply better than the Switch at everything

CONSOLE WARS HAVE CONCLUDED WINNER IS NINTENDO SWITCH! No seriously the switch is EASILY one of my favorite consoles! It's truly epic and a well made one! Good video, Random! I enjoyed watching it!

im 90% sure that microsoft is gonna leave the console wars and just focus on making games for steam.

The new direct kinda drowned the other consoles

Oh Breath of the Wild, the main reason I decided to pick up a Switch for my bday back in 2017 or 2018. I actually rarely had time to play, and since broke college kid was broke, I seriously considered selling it at the tail end of 2019. Animal Crossing is how I survived 2020. That's another reason why I think Nintendo 'won.' Animal Crossing really was the perfect quarantine game. Everyone either had it and wanted to have it. People just had to be there. You just had to have had a Switch. 😊

Microsoft is failing xbox, they bringing they're exclusives to playstation now

Nes,snes,ps1,ps2,wii,ps4,switch are winners of their respective generations

Ahhh yes 2018 the lightest year for the switch. Just smash bros pokemon let'go and mario party

Want to become a good indie game studio and thrive? Make games for Nintendo. You know you don't need to push your graphic power, just make fun games.

lol I haven’t heard people complain or talk about console wars since 2011 🤣🤣🤣.

Microsoft and Sony have been real quiet ever since the nitendo directdropped-

I have always been a nintendo kid, tho i was curious about the other two, (specifically ps3 owned by my uncle and xbox one owned by one of my cousins), but the reason i love nintendo (besides thier iconic ip's) is the idea of "experimentation" they see something interesting, they try to make it work!! 🌟

Not a nintendo fanboy, I actually hated them from the N64 until the Switch, but they are absolutely killing it this generation. Screw graphics, gameplay is what matters. And Nintendo, while they still do their weird little gimmicks like motion control and 3-handed controllers that force you to use analog and almost never let you use the d-pad for anything, started just making classic games again along with their new experimental stuff. And they still add in a few new things to the old formulas so they don't get completely stale. I could only be happier with the Switch if it had enough power to run all the same games as PCs and other consoles and still do everything else it already does, because SOME games either simply can't be run at all, or to be run they have to be scaled down, sectioned off, or just have the graphics on a completely different level entirely. Also sometimes load times are completely atrocious. I have no experience with any other current generation consoles to compare load times though, only PC, but it's not even close. While it was never a huge problem before, and it mostly still isn't, I recently got BioMutant for the switch, and it's by far the worst example of a port I've personally seen in terms of graphics. A few small things were noticeable in Hogwarts Legacy, and it had certain areas sectioned off. It wasn't really open. I only really noticed graphics significantly when it came to the hair. But BioMutant is really really bad. Especially with the loading. To be fair though, the loading takes a long time on the PC compared to other games too, but the Switch is much worse. Continuing your game from the main menu takes probably close to a minute, maybe even a little more. All of this is to say, I could see why some people would rather own non-switch versions of certain games, but I'm mostly with you on that. If I have an option to own a game for the Switch I usually buy that, and I get a physical copy.

It’s…it’s over…?

original one was between 2600, Collicovision and intelevision.

stellar blade is cool but its no nier automata ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ and automata works on the switch somehow

I was a Nintendo and Sega kid. Then I was a Nintendo, Sega, Sony, and Microsoft teen. Now I’m a Nintendo, Sony, and not too much Microsoft adult. I loved my Xbox and 360 but I thought the Xbox One sucked which was the o my console I didn’t get. I don’t have the series X either. Either way I think we gamers win when there is good competition. Now I have my son who is a Nintendo, Sony, and PC kid lol

I've never really have been an Xbox fan, but I find it interesting that some (not all) of their issues seem to come from not-so-greedy business practices. New game coming out? Let people play it on PC, also, make sure everyone can play it day 1 on gamepass! The same might go for PS5 and it releases PS5 games on the PS4, which on paper sounds super consumer friendly (which it is), but the problem is that neither console was able to give another reason to buy an overglorified PC. Nintendo, on the other hand, still supports an 8+ year old console that allows people to play exclusive games on the go, a market which PC only recently got an offer for. Nintendo may not be perfect, but I feel like they've been able for me to justify buying it and its games whereas both Sony and Microsoft haven't, and now they're ironically facing the same issue the Wii U was just a few short years ago. Im honestly impressed with how well both the PS5 and Xbox series X have sold considering how poorly they were handled. With better choices, Im sure they could've beat Nintendo considering how loyal many people can be to a brand. Anyways, I guess we'll have to see if Xbox and PS5 continue to get worse or not.

Where do you live because I got a GameCube on launch day and it didn't come with a game.

1:50 cool i got the same joycons too