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talked about the console wars and how they suck and i don't like them and stuff, hope you guys enjoy
(also btw this video didn't take like 4 months to make I just had a lot of personal stuff happen in my life that pulled me away from content, hope you enjoy this though)
War, war never changes, as said by…uhh…Ron Pearlman? As far as a quote goes, it’s a great one to describe the console wars. Times where people were genuinely up in arms to passionately defend their purchases of a certain console by dissecting each of them in excruciating detail. For those who don’t understand the console war, it’s hard to paint a mental picture of what is essentially, gaming not for fun, or for a goal, but just to defend a company. The release of games were just sales numbers, review scores you could screenshot and show other people. All of this in an effort to say that a console, not a game or even an experience, was superior.
Getting back on topic, this tale stretches back into the nineties. Sega versus Nintendo set the stage for what a console war is, with each company outright insulting the other in advertisements to get you, the consumer, to buy their product. Inevitably, this console war brought about innovation between these companies because the companies themselves were fighting on the front lines with each other. Nintendo, obviously, didn’t have to do much work by having a large amount of the “popular games” to play on their console, but SEGA put in work to popularize phrases like blast processing, which then made Nintendo respond by “debunking” it. This bickering was made especially funny years down the road because commonly, many people didn’t think blast processing was actually a real thing, it really was just a marketing buzzword to get people to buy the genesis. And it would almost be as funny as the truth if it just ended there, but blast processing does exist, and it’s a very real feature, that not a single shipped Genesis game ever used. This entire list, not one of them, ever used it.
In a more recent era most people know “the console wars” as Sony vs Microsoft, the Xbox vs Playstation. These two titans duke it out on the frontlines of consumer store shelves, while Nintendo just kinda does their own thing. All of this began in the early 2000’s, with Sony releasing the PS2, and it quickly becoming the best selling console ever made, a title it still holds to this day. The Playstation 2 was secretly, not so secretly, meant to step on Microsoft’s toes by competing with home computers, something Microsoft noticed, so they decided to respond with the Xbox, and the Rock. And even with the help of my baby (show stryxo videos mentioning halo count), Microsoft managed to make it 21st on the list of best selling consoles. It didn’t exactly dethrone the PS2, but what it did was a carve a space in the console market for Microsoft to dominate, especially when Microsoft released Xbox Live, which while not the first ever online option for a console, it was the only one to include things like, a friends list, a gamertag that sticks with you in every game, and voice chat. Maybe that one was a mistake, but you get what I mean.
The late 2000’s brought forth a surge of renewed energy towards a console war between Sony and Microsoft, except this time the front line of this war wasn’t fought by the companies. The companies were playing Cold War, they’re not buying advertisements to all over another console, instead they were letting the studios they owned or the games that released do the talking for them.
30 окт 2023
