How Nintendo Switch Won the Console Wars
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- The console wars is a topic among all gamers, and Random thinks Nintendo and the Switch won the console wars against Xbox and Sony. Why does the Nintendo Switch win against PS5 and Series X and S?
Patreon: / randombystanderhere
Twitch: / randombystanderhere
Twitter: / rbhstreams
Instagram: / randombystanderhere
Tiktok: vm.tiktok.com/...
Additional Script Writing and Editing: Whooh / whooh
/ whooh05
Thumbnail Artist: ErosxArt / erosxart
RandomBystanderHere Outro Song: Silverreploid CLE / @silverreploidcle / silverreploid
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.
Kinda true; but I do think the PS3/360/Wii was the last generation where there was any console wars. PS3 and 360 had so many great exclusives you'd miss out on 20% of the greatest games of that generation if you only had one or the other.
PS4 vs. One wasn't even a race; and now most exclusives are for a limited time, and then ported to anything else.
The war is philosophical.
Nintendo won because they model won.
They do say the way to win the game is not to play the game.
Imo Nintendo#1. PlayStation#2. And Xbox# irrelevant/distant 3rd. I have never played or ever wanted to play any Xbox exclusives, and nowadays Xbox has 0. Xbox is basically a windows PC with limitations.
Idk Nintendo might've been chilling on their own but it feels like any Xbox or PlayStation fan on the internet is ready to virtually uppercut the other at a moment's notice even now
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
WillU was actually goof
I enjoyed the WiiU
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.....
Agreed, Nintendo has always been winning in my eyes because of its IPs and exclusives, but I understand why people dipped during the Wii U era. Gameplay first matters so much, and something I don’t think Sony or Microsoft will ever understand
its kinda crazy how nintendo has literally done the bare minimum in terms of designing a console. The parts in the Switch are weaker than most modern phones. They keep the value of the console down to drive more sales, but in reality even their top games barely run on the system.
@@itsemistro Nope. Nintendo just understood where all of this technology was heading. The cost of developing big games on stuff like the PS5 and X Box Series have become so astronomical with the expectation for insanely high fidelity graphics and production values that it is forcing developers to dumb down their games for the absolute lowest common denominator consumer in hopes of trying to garner enough sales to even break even. It is unsustainable which is why so many studios are being shut down. You can't find a PS5 or X Box Series game even half as ambitious in game design as Zelda TotK despite the fact that it is running on an underpowered tablet device.
I think the root of the companies are evident in how they are different from one another. Nintendo is foremost an entertainment company, primarily producing toys and games and that can be seen in how they design their console. Sony and Microsoft are tech companies, and it is very clear with how they boast with their technology.
Nintendo is different because in a fundamental way, they are different. Nintendo is an entertainment company; Microsoft and Sony are tech companies.
@davidaitken8503 even nintendo's current president has said that games will take longer and more expensive, it's just they've been using underpowered components and used it to it's fullest on why games are somewhat playable and fun for the system.
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.
At least you've got ray tracing in your TH-cam videos 😂
Nice one 😂
The switch has TH-cam app too. So you could sell your PS5 and buy more switch games ❤
@@jk_mizu I know switch got one too , but for real ps5 doesn't even have a reason to own one especially if you own a mid range PC you can just play ps5 exclusive (missing maybe 2 games) and own a switch is enough to play anything and no emulator cause that's illegal since the console is still alive and selling pretty well. PC and switch is enough for me since I got to play both Xbox,Sony and PC games The switch is for playing Nintendo games.
get out of here
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.
isn't that where the zelda cd games came from? Nintendo hasn't let people mess with their copyrights since
Nintendo Dodge a huge bullet from Sony if Nintendo agree make a CD addon for SNES by sony they would get consume by sony like other companies in the 90.
@@jeremyporter6677 It is. Although those games probably weren't the main contributor to Nintendo not wanting to let others get a hold of their IP nearly as much as the Super Mario Bros movie that released in the mid-90s.
@@jeremyporter6677 Yes, and yes. Also, the original Super Mario Bros. Movie.
So instead of Sony being betrayed by Nintendo, it’s the other way around. Sony betrayed Nintendo.
The PS5 is the best and most expensive way to play my PS4 collection
PS4 Pro Plus
@@conniek7185 is less expensive than a ps5 lol
Lol
Damn, why You have yo go so hard,
That's what my brother said when he upgraded 😂 still better than me, I'm stuck in Xbox
"Graphic don't make games, gameplay does" is something to base a gamers' creed on.
By daring to be different and doing their own thing even if it’s a bit traditional Nintendo uses limitations to push creativity
It does seem like limitations breeds imagination and creativity. When you can make a realistic looking game, you tend to lose out on imaginative characters. When you try to ground your game in realism, you lose out on fun platforming options.
POV: Xbox or PlayStation person
“Switch graphics are trash!”
(Sees Metroid Prime 4)
“What?!?!?!?!?!??”
Yeah maybed it's not hype realistic but it looks great and more it normally wouldn't take five years to make
Getting back into gaming with the Switch has been incredible. Fantastic console with great games.
The Switch beating PS5 is like Batman Outsmarting the Joker who has Loki's mask
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 😂
As "real" as a game looks it never looks like looking out your window into reality. Then there's sacrifices made like mechanics and interactivity, it's always limited. Then again in a few years it looks outdated compared to the current day's "realism chasers"
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
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.
One good show in how long? Games coming out years in the future. It was the ONLY thing Microsoft had to do or they would have been toast
I actually say that Nintendo simply stopped fighting after the GameCube. At that point, they already defeated their long last rival, and the battle to come wasn't even about games anymore. They just sat in their "Fun First" throne, while watching the other two go at each other's throats.
You can say that Nindendo didn't win, it was the other two that succeeded in bleeding each other out.
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!
Gap from PS1 to PS2 was night and day, PS2 to PS3 was noticeable but not as much as it was previously. PS3 to PS4, looking at games that were released for both, such as MGS V, a pretty tiny difference. PS4 to PS5... it seems a side-by-side is necessary to notice any differences at all.
Heck, looking back at the launch of Nvidia's Turing series of graphics card and demos like Quake 2 RTX, I don't see it as that impressive, results look only marginally better than what my 1080 Ti was able to produce at astonishing framerates in 4k in games like Wolfenstein 2: The New Colosssus and Doom 2016.
I think by diminishing returns they mean that for each iteration the jump in power is less and less meaningful. Like PS1 to PS2 is a massive change. PS3 was a pretty big jump. PS4, decent jump. PS5, it's there but is it really that huge over the PS4? Not that it doesn't look better, of course it does. But the envelope is being pushed less each time
I think it's very telling that many new PS5 games are still releasing for PS4 as well despite how late we are into the PS5's lifespan.
PS3 to PS4 is pretty noticeable. MGSV is an anamoly that looks surprisingly good on seventh gen hardware. Comparing Uncharted 3 to 4 shows a significant difference.
This is what has me most excited about their next console. It just has to have ps4 level specs and it'll be an absolute powerhouse. It's kinda ironic, but that's all it really needs. Next gen Zelda and Metroid are gonna be crazy (Mario's always so stylized it looks good no matter what)
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.
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
it's not bad, but it can be bad for xbox console sales because why buy the xbox console if you can play the game everywhere else too? And we kinda need competition to drive innovation, except it isn't really working for xbox and playstation, except in ways to milk more out of players.
Nintendo is far from innocent, but I don't see all the microtransactions and loot boxes and other crap that's been plaguing gaming for far too long now in their games at least. They focus on gameplay instead of graphics. And they're always trying new things.
I agree with this not being a bad business solution. But makes the Xbox more of service than a console maker. And well since Sony and Microsoft are both on the pushing graphics game, means that sony will end up the same way. Them releasing games on PC is the first step. In the end I see Nintendo and always have as my companion to my main gaming device which is my PC
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.
Nintendo Switch slapped Sony and Microsoft around.
Switch alone may have outsold 3 combined Xbox Generations & I'm confident that by 2026 it will outsell PS2. Nintendo has proven to be King of the Gaming Industry & having more than an entire century of experience in business (47 Years in Video Games) they knew how to succeed in the long term. 4 Decades of gaming went into Switch & it isn't slowing down after 7 Years.
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.
2:17 actually, the gamecube had graphics second to the og xbox, but the rest still stands true
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.
One word. Exclusives.
Nice input. I've actually been playing my switch a lot more recently while my ps4 gathers dust. Cheers!
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
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.
Not just that, nintendo is super indies friendly as well, even having nintendo directs just to showcase indie games, it feels like there is a ton to play.
I was gonna say starting on the DS isn't anywhere near long enough to refer to the time that's passed since as "decades" but.... Reality hits hard...
"I don't think Nintendo can't lose another console war ever again." Don't doubt nintendo's ability to do massivly stupid fuck ups. I say that as a man who owns a wii u.
@@oqo3310 I appreciate their fuck-ups. They just love trying shit. You can tell they've wanted to do the Switch for some time; the Wii U was a few steps short of a Switch.
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
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.
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
You have an awesome speaking voice. Love the enthusiasm.
Ok, you are funny and this video seemed genuinely honest in your assessment. Subscribed!
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.
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
And letting the pokemon company shit the bed when it comes to releasing mainline pokemon games
Dreamcast came out December 1998 yet was clearly 6th Gen Hardware while Xbox arrived 3 Years later. Time can be an advantage in some cases like PS1 vs N64, although even if you don't count Switch as a true 9th Gen Console, that 8 1/2 Gen System is crushing both its 8th & 9th Gen competitors in every profit metric from unit sales, system profits, game sales, & more. Nintendo has gotten their throne as King of the industry back by forging their own path.
@@WaterKirby1994 I do consider the Dreamcast 6th gen. The reason why I don't consider the Switch 9th gen is because it's not a home console in the same way the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles are. Still didn't "crush" the 8th gen consoles. Only the PS2, PS1, and Wii Crushed the competition by beating them by nearly 2:1 or more
The thing is that Nintendo realize that it made way more sense to consolidate the handheld aspect (where they were the only option) and their home console market.
As much as people hate to consider it it is both a handheld and home console
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.
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.
Tbf the switch had a head start and consoles weren't hard to get
Dude’s failing so hard at being funny that he makes Clayface look like an EGOT
Great video! Keep grinding man, you’re gonna hit it big soon enough. These are quality videos you’re pumping out!
Thank you! I may lower the upload rate to once every two weeks, but plenty of videos are on the way!
Wii dominated PS3 and 360. DS dominated PSP. 3DS dominated PS Vita. This ain't the first time Nintendo won since PS1 came out.
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)
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. 😊
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
What are your thoughts on the console wars?
I honestly think the switch is very bad for on the go because unless you have a case, say goodbye to your last non-drift joy con. And for those of you who say “then use the pro controller” that thing has so many problems.
Ahhh yes 2018 the lightest year for the switch. Just smash bros pokemon let'go and mario party
Is there any advantage to having a PS5 or XBox, if you have access to a mobile phone, PC, Switch and Steam Deck?
The PS3 launch price was crazy lmao
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).
Nintendo: "Cheap console with some new technology, very accessible and flexible with how you play, and lots of games with plenty of variety that are enjoyable by everyone to some degree"
Xbox and Playstation: "POWER! GRAPHICS! FRAME RATE! EXPENSIVE TECH!"
PC: "The prey just presents itself"
...
Xbox and Playstation: "Our games are also available to PC..."
Nintendo: "We gave mobile users their own small, unique games, but nothing that's on our actual platform"
Want to focus on the console market? Know what a console is supposed to be. You want to focus on power and graphics? Sega can tell you how that goes in console market.
Microsoft and Sony will never go on top of Nintendo due to their old nostalgic nest back in the late 80s Nintendo like the grand daddy with Sega consoles.
Console wars are dead and Steam put an end to it. Like Groudon and Kyogre fighting and Rayquaza coming in from the sky.
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)
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
And you get them pretty much patched and finished to boot
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.
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
While I did own the original xbox when it was "relevant", I was too young to even care about the M-rated content. While I have an otherwise similar background to this youtuber, I also can tell that Xbox was starting to lose the edge it had back in the 360 era with the xbox one, and while I did own the One S, I didn't last long with them and swapped that for a PS4 slim and felt already more at home (I also was owning a Switch and my game library kept increasing over time).
When I got the PS5, I used it more than I would have ever thought so since I only owned potato PCs and starting from scratch and spend 3K on a PC was less appealing than the PS5's price point (I bought mine end of March last year, during the console's 2nd inventory wave). I can tell that, despite owning a few solid games like the anniversary edition of Skyrim, Diablo2Rez, Ratchet & clank rift apart, and FF16 (not to mention some PSVR2 games later down the line), I can feel that it's not exactly going as well with them as with Nintendo. Heck, I can't even compare my Nintendo Library with Sony's combined PS4 & 5 library I have acquired (and that's even excluding the NSO retro titles)
17:23 I miss that man :(
5:11 i dont think that's true. I dont believe GameCube launched with any included game bundles. And Melee wasnt even a launch title.
I believe what you're thinking about were promotional bundles that came to retail later just like how Switch got Mario Kart 8 bundles later on in its lifespan.
Nope can’t disagree your right 😊
19:11 "We may not even see consoles in the future" - You heard it here, y'all, all consoles in gen 10 or 11 would be made out of fully transparent materials!
Anyway, is anyone even buying the Xbox Series? A quick Google search shows that the console(s) sold 27+ million units (which is nothing, really), but I've never met a single person, online or irl, who has one. Any gaming discussion I see everyone's talking about the Switch's great line-up of games, and anyone who wants more graphical fidelity would get a PS5 or a gaming pc. The only time I ever hear anyone mention Xbox, is in context of how bad the console is, and how Microsoft dropped the ball straight down, through the floor, and directly into the core of the Earth.
As someone with a Nintendo switch…No
What killed PS and Xbox is that their console suply was shorted and was at higher price than the switch + The end of exclusivity .
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.
I think one of the biggest arguments in favor of the Switch’s success is that it is an overall more affordable console across the board compared to PS5/XSX. Unless you’re a fairly hardcore gamer that likes AAA titles with a bigger concentration on graphics & cinematic gameplay, you’re most likely not going to be as willing to shell out ~$400-500 for a console.
The most expensive Switch, the OLED version is $350. The cheapest Switch, the Switch Lite goes for $199. Neither the PS5 or Xbox Series X/S is that cheap! At those prices, the Switch is a no brainer unless you really want to play a particular Sony or Microsoft exclusive game or something that the Switch’s current hardware simply isn’t capable of running.
lol I haven’t heard people complain or talk about console wars since 2011 🤣🤣🤣.
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.
As one who group up on the ps2 and then shifted between sony and nintendo with the wii and ps4. Good games and system or not, the switch is in a need of an upgrade. I dont say this for graphics i say this for performance on multiplatform games or even few exclusive games such as Shin Megami Tensei V for example or the dynasty warriors/warriors orochi games.
I gave up on Sony at PS4 because I was tired of their boring, easy wannabe movie games. I gave up on the XBox after the One because they really didn't have any games. I still won't give up on Nintendo because they actually make, you know, GAMES.
Play station fans are going to deny this so hard
And then Nintendo came out with that Direct recently, incentivising people to buy their Switch (or Switch 2) in the future
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.
I’ve always loved Nintendo, it’s the company i kept coming back to and I feel with the Wii and the particularly the Switch, Nintendo well and truly nailed it and I won’t be buying anything else but a Nintendo console going forward. There is a reason why i only have a Switch and almost got a PS5 but didn’t.
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.
stellar blade is cool but its no nier automata ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and automata works on the switch somehow
Playstation has cool controllers . PC is king and my PC shares its monitor with a Nintendo Switch /GameCube.
Very happy that Nintendo survived after Wii U. Bought Switch to play Mario Odyssey. Everything else I game on PlayStation.
For me, there was always Nintendo and PlayStation vs Xbox and not PlayStation vs Nintendo vs Xbox.
Bro, Switch was released like 3.5 years earlier than PS5 :D. Switch sold 1 billion games, PS4 sold 1.6 billion in the same lifespan.
Is it just me being a such a boomer, or is gaming these days much less about impressing the public with better graphics and bleeding edge technology, and much more about making half-assed games to publish them as quickly as possible, only to then fill them up with DLC's?
This alone makes modern consoles less interesting than retro consoles, and it's the reason why indies are much more successful, because indies still have this "let's experiment with this cutting edge technology" type of mindset.
Watered down from what we had in the 80's, 90's, and early 2000's, but still more effort than what AAA studios are willing to put in.
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
Pokémon Works? How did you know this? There’s no such studio as Pokemon Works. There’s Game Freak.
@@justinyoon2840 Pokemon Works is a studio that is made in the same building as ILCA, you know, the same company that made the Gen 4 remakes. They will probably work on all future remakes and maybe help with the development of future generations
Side note there are platinum Locations in the Code of BDSP so either they didn't have enough time or game freak chose to make Faithful remakes. It's 100% game freak's fault that BDSP was the way it was. Extra side note there is evidence that they are working on M&L brothership that game looks amazing
@@justinyoon2840 Pokemon Works is a studio that is made in the same building as ILCA, you know, the same company that made the Gen 4 remakes. They will probably work on all future remakes and maybe help with the development of future generations Side note there are platinum Locations in the Code of BDSP so either they didn't have enough time or game freak chose to make Faithful remakes. It's 100% game freak's fault that BDSP was the way it was. Extra side note there is evidence that they are working on M&L brothership that game looks amazing
@@justinyoon2840 Pokemon Works is a studio that is made in the same building as ILCA, you know, the same company that made the Gen 4 remakes. They will probably work on all future remakes and maybe help with the development of future generations Side note there are platinum Locations in the Code of BDSP so either they didn't have enough time or game freak chose to make Faithful remakes. It's 100% game freak's fault that BDSP was the way it was. Extra side note there is evidence that they are working on M&L brothership that game looks amazing
Steam won the console wars
I have an XBox Series X because I wanted to get Next Gen games and I couldn’t afford PS5 or a PC.
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
Personally I could care less about system wars from all three parties as they do not care about us the individual(s)
Nintendo had stated that it doesn't participate in such competition. Microsoft had just announced that they thrown in the towel for the system wars and wants to be a digital gaming service. That only leaves Sony as the default victor.
Personally gamings are going to be a service model and that will he the next debate and we will see how that fairs. By that time I would long been gone from games as a whole. Good luck to those who still participate in such nonsense bickering for said multimillion dollar company.
That's just some lousy and loose end prediction. Gaming as service will happen but it's not going to be the main course and it won't replace what already works. In a way gaming as service will fail since gaming relying on online is not sustainable and not everyone could afford topay monthly just to temporarily keep playing.
I haven't even brought a PS5 yet. Especially since I now have a gaming PC. But even then I play with my Switch most of the time. It's funny because ten years ago back when the console wars were The PS4 vs. Xbox One the idea of Nintendo beating them was laughable. It's impressive how its turn around. I think one reason is inflation. Nintendo is cheaper than PS5 and XBOX and the fact you can bring it anywhere but also connect it to the TV is awesome. I can bring to a hotel and hook it up. It's just a great idea as a whole.
You guys are lucky because at launch in Australia, games were $85 dollars or higher! And thats still the case now! (I'm talking in AUD)
Completely unrelated but that thumbnail art is adorable❤
Personally, only reasons I keep my Xbox One S (outside of playing games with family members online) are Radiant Silvergun, Rare Replay and Sunset Overdrive. Other than that, why bother?
Edit: 15:56 YOU HAD TO BRING UP THE ONE GAME THAT WOULDVE SOLD ME A SERIES X, AND YET I GOT IT ON PS5 JUST FROM WAITING!! FINALLY, SOMEONE ELSE WHO AGREES WITH ME!!
I like how you react to the mistakes Sony and Microsoft made and I have to agree with you.
I have always been a nintendo kid, tho i was curious about the other two, (specifically ps3 owned by my uncle and xbox one owned by one of my cousins), but the reason i love nintendo (besides thier iconic ip's) is the idea of "experimentation" they see something interesting, they try to make it work!! 🌟
PCMR mogs all console untermensch
The Wii and then the Nintendo DS, no one has ever been able to touch Nintendo. I just hope PlayStation and Xbox learn from this and continue forward. The console wars are good for everyone
Gonna bring hell on earth, even thou the games are the best gaming has to offer.
The switch is not worth it to pkay those games if the idea to juice them up to the limit, thats one of the reasons why switch emulators came like, 5 months after the console's release.
Also nintendo does DMCA's and lawsuits to fan projects better that consoles.
Lastly, you cant justify me that a 7 year old switch game should cost 60€/$, without a chance of a discount.
Or a bare-bone remaster for 60€/$.
All I have to say is that the other "options" are responsible for the hellish scape that is modern gaming. Dlc, battlepass, paid online, third party support, non playable games inside the disk, etc... All of these and more spread like a cancer and now we have to wait atleast a month before buying anything to make sure it isnt smokes and mirrors. Pc on the other had is the king but thats just my opinion.
I own a switch, ps5 and PC. But i gotta say that's hard being a gamer and miss out on the best games released outside the switch library. I speak: Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring even it takes two took forever to hit the system. I honestly think that nintendo's greed on making profit on the hardware sales will be its doom. You want spent less and put out good 1st party games? Sure, go ahead it has been working well for you. However, 3rd party releases are either absent or too many sacrifices to be made in order to be played on the switch. The market of handheld didn't have any competition since the psp days and the switch was really really goof for what it was in 2017. But now we have incredible machines such as steam deck and Rog Ally X. Nintendo will have a chance with the switch sucessor, but knowing them... It will be underpowered. I'd be glad to be proven wrong tho.
You probably deserve more subs. I'll check another vid of yours to confirm, though I do prefer longer content.
i jsut got a series s for the backwards compatibility alone as some ports of old games arent on pc eg sonic unleashed
As a PlayStation fan, i give it to Nintendo! What a little Wonder they created, what a beautiful game worlds, such a machine against more powerfull consoles and yet...wiped them out.
I mean lets be real tho... the first thing you played since you were a baby was a NINTENDO... I had the FAMICOM and the original big fat GAMEBOY...
tetris 99 super speed up music played
I mean.. Just look at the sales numbers.
Since the dawn of my gaming purchase input, I had a simple rule: before even _considering_ getting a new console, there needed to be at least ten games planned for it that I wouldn't be able to play without a new purchase.
Nintendo always managed to satisfy that benchmark, and so did Sony pre-PS5... even Xbox got _one_ pass with the 360 (Sonic fan + didn't catch Banjo on 64 + Meat Boy was a good chunk of that).
But _this_ generation? Xbox had literally _nothing,_ and PS5 never had more than two games, including the pack-in title! Meanwhile, despite having upgraded the memory of my Switch to maximum capacity and removing all the demos and similar empty files, I'm still in danger of _running out of memory_ soon, and that's with Metroid Prime 4 never showing up like I expected!
tha5 599 USD is now old news thanks to the PS5 Pro