Yes, but it happened during the PS4-era.

It was over the moment colecovision had to cancel donkey Kong for the Adam causing Atari to pull out of the deal which would have given them the rights to sell the Famicom in all regions outside of Japan.

Atari really could of had it all.
Then 3do, Phillips CDI, apple pippin and more fumbled.
Then Sega fumbled like three times in a row
Nintendo has definitely thrown a few out of bounds plays but are doing ok
Now Xbox is fumbling

I'm just interested in what's next will this be the first time in history where we have two major players that actually compliment each other and make a compelling case to own both PlayStation and Nintendo

The war is long over, Xbox lost early on during the Xone/PS4 generation, it's not even a surprise 5, possibly 10 years ago. Although I feel like that may/may not be the reason this generation of gaming is so weak for consoles.

To be fair, Nintendo is beating Sony and Microsoft will be making more hardware. Sony will too.

What we have is an unprecedented circumstance, one company admitting defeat halfway through the fight. Covid obviously didn’t help this generation at all, massive layoffs (some coming due to redundancy in staff as M$ bought many studios and downsized staff) but many supply and development issues this gen created a perfect storm that showed which company had their ducks in a row and which one didn’t. It’s obvious Covid is still affecting game development as games are slow to come out the last couple years after the reset.

All that said, Microsoft will come back with new hardware in a couple years, or sooner, and the war will rage on.

Sony and Nintendo will always have exclusives that stay exclusive to the console. Not every Sony game is coming to PC.

Will Microsoft put EVERY game on PS6 next gen? I doubt it. I’d bet we will see timed exclusives for many of their games. This is directly participating in the console war.

Yes, Nintendo won and long may they reign.

If Xbox truly lost the console war, why are Phil and his leadership boys still employed? You and I would be fired by now. #failup

The console wars ended after PS3 vs XB360. Pretty much after that Sony has dominated in sales. Only console wars I do miss are the Genesis vs SNES.

Every gamer, developer, publisher and retailer is a loser. A single format is the only way forward for gaming.

Obviously. PS has been destroying Xbox for years hence the reason Xbox is putting their games on PS as they should.

"Xbox isn't retreating – it has already surrendered."

its been over for a decade now.

ms has made quite alot of questionable decisions ever since

they sold 3 million units last year, its safe to say its over

they would need to buy nintendo at this stage

streaming is Xboxes future but that didn't work out too well for google

Now Playstation 6 will cost 1000€.

I'm brutally honest:

I'll miss it.

In nearly every other economy out there there are at least (!) two companies trying to garner people for their business.

As soon as the 360 era ended, Microsoft already wheeled back their efforts competing with Sony. In fact in hindsight, they've actually never prepared for the Xbox One generation the way Sony did with PS4.

They would have sold out videogames in favor of TV, ads and DRM protection (to earn money even from used games).

ABK and Zenimax were, strictly speaking, only the efforts to save the Xbox brand financially and in terms of IP. (Sony in their business meeting early 2024: "IP is the most valueable asset.")

But let's find out where things will go, only time will tell.

For today, I feel "excited" to follow the Series generation's market performance throughout 2025/2026/and possibly even 2027.

That's a long, long way with probably only worse financial reports than the previous ones.

But I'll enjoy it!

Complete and well deserved butt whipping. Don't put in the effort, don't win the game.

Yeah MS pretty much nuked themselves with the Xbone and were unable to recover from it. The 360 was the only generation they were able to compete. They had the ball rolling then they fucked it up through sheer incompetence.

What war...it was always about the games and that is pretty darn objective.

With consoles getting closer to extinction not sure what to read on whose plan is better going forward. What 2 maybe more consoles generation until they will no longer be needed.

They never started.

Far from over

The war was started when Nintendo betrayed Sony and forced Sony to go into the gaming business. But some how the war ended with Microsoft being the casualty.

I don’t see it as a loss, more like MS have joined forces with Sony to make gaming more accessible and better for all gamers. I’ve yet to buy a MS game for the last couple gens, and Indiana jones will likely be the first. But If MS can pump out quality titles that are accessible on the PS I see them as becoming the favourite publisher for many PS owners.

Y’all should’ve seen this site back in 2005-2009.. Along with IGN, Gamepro, 1up.. the message boards were definitely lit lol.. PS3/360 gen had by far the most hardcore fan base.

Yeah. PC won.

not until Nintendo first party games make there way to Playstation and XBOX.. imagine Mario Odyssey or Breath of the Wild on PS5...i doubt that will happen though. Nintendo is selfish 😁