The Last Great Console War (2005-2012)
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360/PS3/Wii era was truly a battle of heavyweights with exclusives duking it out consistently
That and with the failure rates of both the PS3 and Xbox 360 made the generation even more intense to determine which console failure rate was worse.
Yes, This!
It truly was the PEAK gaming era with the years coming up to it. If hindsight is 20/20 then here is what an optimal household looks like for a middle-class home that likes gaming. Just image you're born in 1995 with a Dad who was a Gameboy/NES Gamer.
As a hypothetical, Start out your Gaming History with a cheap PS1 and a treasure trove of games. Could be modchipped.
Your dad loves it, plus you get an N64 due to the recent Pokemon craze, alongside the new Gameboy Color. You're having a blast in early 2000s. When the PS2 is released grab one, it's a DVD player, and it plays your old PS1 games, so sell the PS1. Then in a year or two, get a new PC that runs Windows Xp, it's good for many things, including games and to your surprise some emulation. Sell your N64 as it's getting old and it's emulation seems to be coming along. You're enjoying your PS2 and PC, sell your GBC and get a new DS Lite. It plays GBA and DS games, stokes your Retro Feels, and has wicked long battery life in such small size.
Now it's 2005 and your PC is showing age, but instead you get the new Xbox 360. Project G Racing looks unreal for such a low price. You keep the 360 well ventilated and clean, it doesn't suffer any Red Ring Death. You've also had a blast with the DS Lite but decided to get the new PSP Brite, it's awesome. You're in the future now. Not long after you grab a PS3, it plays BluRays which is what you want for the Main TV. You keep the PS3 clean and well ventilated, also avoiding the YLOD. The PS3 also natively plays PS2 games, so you sell your PS2. You're happy, you've made some small upgrades to your home PC, it's going strong. You snag a Used Wii and you're a part of the craze. The younger kids love it, as well as the mums and grans. It's also got backwards compatibility with GameCube games that you buy for cheap, just like your old PS2 Games running on the PS3. Now that LCD is much cheaper you get a Second TV for your bedroom, and move the Xbox 360 there, with an Internet connection.
By now life is good, but you want to refresh some of your electronics. You start by selling your PSP Brite. You modded it, and it served you tremendously, but you have a phone now, so you jump on the newly discounted new3DS. Immediately you get to relive some of your DS childhood as well as new collection of 3DS games. Also you want to get on Windows 7, with your Desktop PC is showing its age badly. The new PC is very affordable and you choose good components (i7-3770k, r9-290, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD). It's so much faster, and can now do alot of emulation including PSP, PS2, and GameCube, and also the Wii. You also get rid of the Wii, it's served it's purpose and the gimmick is meh now.
You've looked at the WiiU and you don't want it. So you sell your hot, heavy, loud PS3 and go for a PS3 Slim with a Big HDD for the same price. You'll enjoy this in your bedroom with the exclusive games and new movies. You decide to get rid of the Xbox 360, now there is an empty slot in the living room. You fill that up with the PS4. You're missing your Xbox 360 Games and Xbox exclusives, but the PC keeps you hooked. You're about to go to University, and you decide to splurge on a new phone (ZTE Axon 7), and Build a Brand New Windows10 PC (r7-3700, GTX-1080Ti, 32GB RAM, 1TB nVme, 4TB HDD). You also sell your PS3, and soon after the new3DS, both can run on your PC. You grab a NSwitch for the hype but don't hop on the PS4 Pro, your PC is over-powered compared to Sony's console. You also don't care for the Xbox, 360, or One consoles, as their Games play on your PC. The prices for things start to go bad. Just as the pandemic hits, you snag a PS5 and enjoy your PS4 games on it. That's right you've sold your PS4 now. Your NSwitch is getting mixed results with you, and you decide to sell it. But what's this, now you've got a new handheld.
So right now it's the latest Valve SteamDeck OLED in your backpack, the PS5 on your TV, and your ageing Gaming PC serving you well. You're enjoying your Samsung S10+ with Razer JungleCat when you read this comment. You also managed to upgrade your PC cheaply (r9-3800x3D, rx-6800, 64GB, 4TB SSD), again it plays so many games.
And now you're reminiscing about the simpler days, back when your house had 3 Consoles (360, PS3, Wii) and a PC. That was the PEAK gaming era.
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Hypothetically speaking, let's start out with a cheap PS1 and a treasure trove of games. Could be modchipped.
Your dad is stoked, plus you get an N64 due to the recent Pokemon craze, alongside the new Gameboy Color. Have a blast in early 2000s. When the PS2 is released grab one, it plays your old PS1 games, so sell the PS1. Then in a year or two, get a new PC that runs Windows Xp, it's good for many things, including games and to your surprise some emulation. Sell your N64 as it's getting old and it's emulation seems to be coming soon. You're enjoying your PS2 and PC, sell your GBC and get a new DS Lite. It plays GBA and DS games, stokes your Retro Feels, and has wicked long battery life in such small size.
Now it's 2005 and your PC is showing age, but instead you get the new Xbox 360. Project G Racing looks unreal for such a low price. You keep it well ventilated and clean, it doesn't suffer any Red Ring Death. You've also had a blast with the DSL but decided to get the new PSP Brite. You're in the future now. Not long after you grab a PS3, it plays BluRays which is what you want for the Main TV. You keep the PS3 clean and well ventilated, also avoiding the YLOD. The PS3 also natively plays PS2 games, so you sell your PS2. You're happy, you've made some small upgrades to your home PC, it's going strong. You snag a Used Wii and you're a part of the craze. The younger kids love it, as well as the mums and grans. It's also got backwards compatibility with GameCube games that you buy for cheap, just like your old PS2 Games running on the PS3. Now that LCD is much cheaper you get a Second TV for your bedroom, and move the Xbox 360 there, with an Internet connection.
By now life is good, but you want to refresh some of your electronics. You start by selling your PSP Brite. You modded it, and it served you tremendously, but now you've got a phone. So you jump on the newly discounted new3DS. Immediately you get to relive some of your DS childhood as well as new collection of games. Also you want to get on Windows 7, with your Desktop PC is showing its age badly. The new PC is very affordable and you choose good components (i7-3770k, r9-290, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD). It's so much faster, and can now do alot of emulation including PSP, PS2, and GameCube, and also the Wii. You also get rid of the Wii, it's served it's purpose and the gimmick is meh now.
You've looked at the WiiU and you don't want it. So you sell your hot, heavy, loud PS3 and go for a PS3 Slim with a Big HDD for the same price. You'll enjoy this in your bedroom with the exclusive games and new movies. You decide to get rid of the Xbox 360, now there is an empty slot in the living room. You fill that up with the PS4. You're missing your Xbox 360 Games and Xbox exclusives, but the PC keeps you hooked.
You're about to go to University, and you decide to splurge on a new phone (ZTE Axon 7), and Build a Brand New Windows10 PC (r7-3700, GTX-1080Ti, 32GB RAM, 1TB nVme, 4TB HDD). You also sell your PS3, and soon after the new3DS. You grab a NSwitch due to hype but don't hop on the PS4 Pro, your PC is over-powered compared to Sony's console. You also don't care for the Xbox, 360, or One as their Games play on your Gaming PC.
The prices for things start to go bad. Just as the pandemic hits, you snag a PS5 and enjoy your PS4 games on it. That's right you've sold your PS4. Your NSwitch is getting mixed use, and you decide to sell it. But what's this, now you've got a new handheld.
So right now it's the latest Valve SteamDeck OLED in your backpack, the PS5 on your TV, and your ageing Gaming PC serving you well. You're enjoying your Samsung S10+ with Razer JungleCat when you read this comment. You also managed to upgrade your PC cheaply (r9-3800x3D, rx-6800, 64GB, 4TB SSD).
And you're reminiscing about the simpler days, back when your house had 3 Consoles (360, PS3, Wii) and PC. That was the PEAK gaming era.
"Wii games have colors other than brown."
IMHO the most important takeaway from the 7th gen console war. For the life of me, I have no idea why any game developers decided to have their games' palettes be only brown, gray, and black. Games like Final Fantasy 6 and 7 showed that you can tell a heavy, poignant story while using color so it's nice to look at. I always remind people that Cloud wore purple. Not brown. Not gray. Not black. Purple.
And I know Cloud wears black now, but if these game designers were paying attention, they would have seen how many people criticized Advent Children's character redesigns for boringly having every character wear black.
As if there isn't the pesky gameplay to talk about of course it's the color pallete.
@@civilwarfare101 I said most important takeaway, not only takeaway.
@@leolightfellow
It isn't that important. Color palletes are the least important thing when playing any game, the game in question can look colorful and play like garbage but of course, it's not like the people who played those "brown" military shooters actually played them.
The reason is because, a few years prior, games were all about water.
But after that we ran out, so al the games were dry.
"Yo I got purple pants cuz I'm running all round, I got my name from ripping fat CLOU-"
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I had a PS3 and a Wii...they complimented each other really well.
ive alwyas been like this with having a gamecube and ps2, wii and ps3, wii u and ps4 and now switch and ps5! not to sure if I will get a ps6 tho but I will defo get a switch 2!!!
VERY WELL… dude I was wiis3 all the way … absolutely no reason to buy the rrodbox180
I've had them all, 360 first, then Wii for my little brother (eventually became mine when he also got a 360) and finally a PS3 Slim
By the end of the generation PS3 was my main, mostly due to lack of regional locks and the generous PS Plus of the era
Somehow I ended up Xbox One only from 2013 onwards, having a lot of platforms is tiresome to choose where to play
PSP and DS too! ☝🏻
I miss the console war. It's when these companies acturally tried....
The 6th generation between dreamcast, gamecube, xbox, and ps2 was like World War 1.
The 7th generation between Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3 was like World War 2.
I guess that makes SNES vs Genesis the Civil War
what would be the cold war 🤔
@@QuickThekidd probably N64, PS1, Sega Saturn era.
@@dougdigtell me you don’t know history without telling me you don’t mow history
@@QuickThekidd Right now. 9th generation with PS5, Xbox series and Switch
For me, the 6th gen console wars will always be my favourite but I think that this era was the prime of console wars
7th generation of console is the only generation I CANNOT PICK ONE, Ps3, X360, Wii all have so many good games I cannot pick without the other
Looking back in time, I've always felt that the 7th generation was the peak of the "war." Sega was knocked out of the race during the last generation with the introduction of the Xbox, and I think that really scared Nintendo and Sony, who very much needed to keep making consoles in order to survive. Consequently, the consoles just weren't made to last, they were genuinely "soldiers" of the generation. My Nintendo 64 will outlive me. By comparison, I was on my second Wii by the time the Wii U came out. I have a professor who worked at Microsoft when the 360 first came out, he says that they were well aware of the red ring of death before the console ever launched, but they needed something to compete, so they just tanked the cost of reimbursement. With the benefit of hindsight and the relatively calm game console world we're in these days, I think it's wild just how accurate the term "console war" was for 7th gen.
What do we call what we're in now that the console wars are basically over? Console fallout?
I think it's Xbox's fault that the console wars are ending
@@NecatiGencaga Agreed. It's not really that Sony beat X Box, but that X Box imploded.
The console Cold War? They’re not really directly competing anymore
This era was a really rough one for my RPG/adventure/platformer loving self, and I admit I spend most of it playing PS2, DS or PSP, occasionally popping my head out for the more traditionally "game-y" releases on Wii.
I eventually got a 360 at the beginning of 2011 and a PS3 for Christmas that same year, and after the PS3 became the big RPG hub near the end of the generation, with exclusives like Tales of Xillia, the Disgaea games and some cool niche titles, it eventually became my favorite of the three.
It does make me sad that Xbox never really recovered from the horrible presentation that revealed the Xbox One
I say all the time the 7th generation is the golden age of gaming. And maybe because I grew up with it (6th gen was the first half of my childhood while the 7th was the second half of my childhood). But nah that was an amazing time. The only gen where I was heavy on all 3 consoles and have great memories of all three
The golden era to me was between Gen 4 - Gen 6. I thought Gen 7 was the start of dark ages in gaming.
@@djmeagaaim17antmanyou are wrong
Definitely the golden era of 3D gaming
Very good mini documentary, good job man.
Man, I grew up with the Xbox 360, Still remains my favorite game console of all time
skate 3, skyrim, gta iv, portal 2, gta 5, need for speed most wanted 2005, black ops 1.. best area
There's many more games than those! It just tells you how awesome that generation was
Your videos never fail to capture me
Always interesting topics!
Ahh the first console war I was old enough to actively participate in. What a time lol
Great video, it was indeed a great era of gaming.
You really took me back with this video, I was never too into the Xbox 360 and PS3 back during their time in the spotlight, especially with that initial PS3 price, however I did play the 360 at friend’s houses sometimes, I mainly had a Gamecube, Wii and PS2.
Fast forward to today I’ve got a PS3 back in 2016 mainly for downloading PSone Classics off the PlayStation Store of games I’ve never owned physically. Today I still have my Wii U, Switch, PS4, NES and SNES Minis if you wanna count those too.
This was the last great generation in gaming.
It was the last interesting hardware upgrade.
Except for the Wii. Nintendo focused on art direction instead of graphics with that console.
@traviscunningham7062 Nintendos been doing Gimmick consoles since the DS.
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this was the last generation I really was into. I had a Wii then got a ps3 not too long after that. also was the first time I had my own money so I could buy and play whatever I wanted; great times. probably my favorite console generation.
This video earned my like, the moment you showed your Patlabor Blu Ray.
7th gen I loved all three. Halo Reach Last of Us mario galaxy
He definitely avoiding the fact that the switch is stomping the other two he is definitely avoiding it
Great video essay. I think the seventh generation is the only one that had my household host all major consoles. My brother went with the Wii whereas I settled for the PS3. I remember buying it in mid-2007, but I only started playing it extensively in '08 when more exclusives and multiplatform hits came out. Had lots of fun with it, even though the latter category of games tended to perform and look worse on PS3.
Then in summer '08, I decided to buy a 360 alongside a copy of Bad Company and Halo 3. My experience with it was very positive, to the point where I asked myself if I should've gone with Team Xbox the year before. Because my 360 was at my summer house, however, most of my teenage years were spent gaming on PS3.
After graduating from high school, I went back to PC gaming and thought that'd be the end of my console days. This past May, however, I chose to buy a used launch-model 360 to indulge in some nostalgia and help myself get through a rough patch. I still have it on my home theater counter as I write this, and I look forward to booting it up again to play the likes of The Club, Lost Planet, Devil May Cry 4, and Tales of Vesperia.
TL;DR The seventh gaming generation brought me tons of joy and inspired me to pursue a career in game development. Good times, indeed.
Interesting you didn't mention HD DVD vs. Bluray, although the fight was very short.
Not tealy. The last VHS was 2009s Ratatouille. HD DVD lost on 2021 when all of Smallville was released on Blu-ray for the first time.
Before that Smallville had no HD release out side of HD DVD up to season 6...until 2021.
@@TempoLOOKING I mean...HD DVD was only around from 2006 to 2008 (according to wikipedia). That's not a long time. I don't know about Smallville, but it's just one show that probably still got releases on normal DVD I guess? I mean, normal DVDs are still not really dead, but HD DVDs, that we're supported by the Xbox 360, are definitely dead since around 2008. In general I meant the Blu Ray vs HD DVD in the PS3 vs 360 era, which the Blu Ray quickly won.
In my opinion the Console Wars ended when the Dreamcast died. After that it was just Sony and Microsoft fighting with each other for no real reason.
Agreed. I still see Sony and Xbox fanboys trying their best make console wars a thing again. But gaming is much afforable than before and you can own more than one console. Back then a console lived and died by their exclusives and a lot of games show up in different consoles and services nowadays. So it's a bit strange.
I guess there's an argument if you're interested only in AAA games or first party games.
@@ajzn97Yeah but (at least in my opinion) you shouldn’t buy a new console JUST for new exclusives. You should get it with the mindset that this is a replacement/upgrade for your old one. Especially for the consoles that are backwards compatible like the Wii, Wii U, all the DS consoles (except the DSi), the PS2,3 and 5 and most modern Xbox consoles. Because then you have all the benefits of the older consoles now with faster load times and overall improved performance.
Anyone who can't tell the difference between PS2 and original Xbox libraries isn't worth taking seriously.
That built-in hard drive, and difference in horsepower made a world of difference. You weren't getting Doom 3 and Morrowind on PS2, and the KoTOR series stepped up when the prequels failed.
I feel like the Dreamcast was more of a 5th generation the 6 gen it released in late 1999 and peaked for most of 2000 and some of 2001 which is the year I think the 6th gen starts
@@ajzn97saying it’s more affordable is straight up not true. Games are priced higher than ever and inflation is at its worse it’s ever been. Gaming is the most expensive it’s ever been for the devs and the consumer
You always knock it out of the park with these videos. HOWEVER, I don't like the way you slid that Beyblade DVD into place 17:38
Frankly? Nintendo won this battle (and technically the war since Microsoft is now considering moving to PC almost entirely while Sony is starting to kinda stagnate technologically?).
They got a major sales lead, and the only drawback was their "kiddy" imagery (which tbh they've always kinda had? Most of their major IPs are either cartoony or flipflops between cartoony and realistic styles on the regular, the Wii being a tipping point hardly changed much since they were already struggling with the hardcore market way back with the SNES against SEGA's MegaDrive), meaning they haven't really lost anything they had (arguably we as their consumers did, but not Nintendo themselves).
They thought outside the box of "HD graphics and hardcore games" and it paid off really damn well.
When every console had peak gaming
probably the only generation where that happened too (aside from maybe 6th gen)
even both of the handhelds in that generation (DS and PSP) were great
This is the era when I was in middle school to when I ended high school. The rise of pioneer internet trolls like Chad Warden were seen everywhere on TH-cam, Blackb0nd was telling us all how superior the PC master race was, Shokio would debate just about anyone lol....oh man, it was certainly an era.
Man what a weird way to experience this generation of consoles I've grew up on. Every new game were all brown, and how Nintendo and Xbox 360 became the most popular in their launch. The PS3 may had a fluke in their launch, but slowly manage to provide some exclusive games over the years. Crazy how time flew by and watching these games really bring so much childhood memories to me.
Finally, someone with good taste.
Halo 3, Gears of war, BioShock and Orange box changed my life
Are you trying to avoid the fact that the switch stomped the other two?
i dont think he is avoiding it, i think mfs dont really care atp bc we all know nintendo will outsell either way😂 the switch is a family and pocket friendly console just like the past nintendo hardware, and has a completely different target audience than XB and PS. the console wars dont include nintendo anymore, or even exist for that matter. as he said before, nintendo does their own thing🤷🏽
At @8:20, it’s so weird to me that modern consoles have cross play. I played cod on my PS5 with someone who had an xbox and I was surprised when she said it would work.
Accurate analysis
The laseractive was still more expensive than the ps3
11:06 There was a technical issue I kept having with my Wii as a matter of fact. Really frustrating. I forget when it started but Gamecube discs would have extreme difficulty reading in the Wii which really sucked when I was playing "Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door" which you can only save when you find those rainbow colored Save Blocks. The game would work, but then suddenly an error screen would show causing the game to be unplayable even though the audio continued to play. Weirdly enough though it said I can take the disc out and clean it and put it back in and it would work again but for like a few seconds so basically even though it would briefly reload where I am it pretty much didn't work.
Sometime later the same thing actually happened with Wii discs. Yes, now suddenly I couldn't even play Wii games without a problem. Something was seriously wrong with the disc reader. At least I still had a Gamecube at the time and I simply just continued Thousand Year Door on that. But with the issues with the disc reader on my Wii, all I could play were the games I downloaded from the Wii Shopping Channel.
The 7th gen gaming consoles were a fun console war I had a Wii my brother and cousins had PS3 and we always had fun with both. But When the 8th gen gaming consoles came out It was also amazing even better. I would say with the PlayStation 4 and games that dominated the games of the 7th gen gaming consoles but 9th gen games seem cash grabby and other things but there are amazing games out there. Cool video. ^_^
Can only imagine you weren’t old enough to experience NFS:MW at launch. It was otherworldly.
The reason the 7th Generation was the last console war is because it was the last era where each console actually offered something unique to its competitors. Nintendo had an emphasis on accessibility and experimentation with motion controls. Microsoft doubled down on online gaming and more mature experiences that, despite almost all being shooters, had their own identity. And Sony was a solid blend of the two, having ambitious exclusive games that balanced Eastern and Western design philosophies.
Compare this to the 8th Generation, where there was no substantial reason to pick an Xbox One over a PS4, or now the 9th Generation where Nintendo is practically in their own league as Sony and especially Microsoft are gradually getting phased out by PC, and it's no wonder that the 7th fet like a war. Wars aren't wars if the sides don't even know they're fighting, and if one side is too weak, then it's just a massacre.
Microsoft earned my respect after my Xbox arcade got the red ring of death and they sent me a new xbox elite for free, GameStop was lit during this generation
The last great era of gaming. I was 15 going on 16 when these systems released and I remember very vividly all the trash talking lol. Great times and I miss it.
I loved the console war discourse on forums during that time. Especially that System Wars forum on Gamespot. Lmfaoo good times before IRL politics infested everything.
Best era ❤
You had a perfect opportunity to mention the South Park episodes with the Nintendo Wii 😂
Going against the grain here, but while this generation was fascinating and had a great console war, it is easilly my least favorite era in gaming. So many brown-looking games, companies closing down or being purchased, japanese development shrinking down. Absolutely terrible times
I know what you mean. I mean there were still a lot of great games as there always is, but I definitely lost interest in home consoles for the most part and really just stuck to retro and handhelds this gen because of what you said
@@ericp631Same, this was easily my least favorite generation in gaming.
Why?
This recent generation is showing the outdated notion of console wars.
Snes and megadrive/Genesis was the hight of the wars
These companies really competing for decades to dominate the gaming market.
Meanwhile a cellphone company in Cupertino: “hold my Candy Crush gold.”
This was an amazing time to grow up as a kid in. I remember the intensity. All the message boards of just ranting, the Fanboys, this was the most intense era of gaming. Nowadays everybody's a PC gamer.
Didn't the generation ended in 2013? because GTA V, The Last of Us, Rayman Legends and some other big names were still releasing for the PS3 and 360.
I still have people come over to my house to play games
There are still some relics of the past thinking the console war is still a thing as if they were frozen in time captain America style
This was the last great era of gaming. I still have a massive backlog of titles to play from it. I think the Wii went to hard in the casual direction in 2008, but they definitely came back to the "core" audience in 2009 and 2010. This era also saw the grand return of 2D platformers thanks to the Wii.
I both miss and don’t miss console wars. I know the day is coming where 1st party titles will be a thing of the past… and for the general user, that’s a good thing. But I’ve always been the type of person to be agnostic with my video game ownership (i.e. I buy all the consoles).
In the end, I think the Console wars were just meant to die off as graphical fidelity plateaued and companies like Nintendo started to dominate the Industry again because they left the console wars rat race Sony and Microsoft have been fighting over for 20 years behind. It doesn’t matter who won now because both the current Xbox and Playstation ecosystems are barely distinguishable from each other beyond Sea of Thieves on one, and Spider-Man on the other.
In the end, Nintendo won with variety and making gaming for EVERYONE, without compromising the story or depth of a video game. It’s why people look back on the 360 and PS3 as a sweaty, frankly cringe era where it was about graphics and specs and not actually about the games quality.
Even today we see these same talking points parroted despite no one caring anymore
And Sea of Thieves is going PlayStation anyway. So there's even less of a point
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Gen 7 console war
Xbox 360: We got Halo 3
Nintendo Wii: We got SSBB
PlayStation 3: We got MGS4 (a movie game 😂)
Best workout was Wii sports tennis 🎾
I've been saying it for years and now more and more people are starting to realise, this was the best generation for video games. Not only for the console wars but for the handheld market too with the DS and PSP.
I believe the 8th generation, if you include all the hardware together, handheld and console, everything sold over 500m pieces of hardware. With about half of this coming from both the Wii & DS combo.
The 8th Generation did okay if you include Switch sales as part of the 8th gen, i personally consider it 8.5 but for arguments sake, we cut the Switches sales off at January 2021, lets say it falls under 8th generation for that time period, Switch, 3DS, WiiU, PS4 and Xbox One i believe sold over 450m.
Unfortunately we're nearly half way into the 9th generation and it isn't looking good at all, when you factor in hardware sales, theres just a lot less dedicated gaming devices now and im including the Steam Deck in all this too, if things keep at this pace, even if Nintendo comes swinging hard, we would be lucky to get 350m total hardware sales.
This downward trend is bad news for anyone who fancies themselves a gamer.
Less of a war, more of a competition between three companies at peak production performance. If anything the gamers were the ones who won that era.
I've been gaming since the Atari & Commodore 64 era. My favorite era in gaming is a tie between the SNES vs Genesis era & Xbox 360 vs PS3 era. Gaming went down hill afterwards. Although I must say PC & Indie gaming has been much improved.
The Wii is my favourite of all time but man i love the gamecube controller
Just reminded me Viva Piñata was a thing 🥹
Also on GameCube
You explained what a Wii is
The last "plug in and play" generation.
Nowadays console are more about updating the console installing the game and updating the game in which you just installed and verifying.
I just want to put the disc in and play the god dam game.
This was the only generation after the third where someone other than Nintendo or Sony came out on top, that alone makes it one to remember.
In the west. Don't forget the turbographics dominated Japan
For me, the 7th Gen war wasn't really about which sold the most, it was about which was enjoyed more, the Wii obviously wins because it catered not just to gamers, but to everyone else as well. I personally believe the 360 gets 2nd mostly because of the fact that it entered the ring a year early, giving it time to develop a catalog of games that released earlier than they did on other consoles, and the fact that they went all out in damage control when the Red Ring of Death incident happened.
Best gen in almost every way
Pour out some liquor for the Dreamcast, real ones don't forget.
Phantasy Star Online, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Shenmue
It was a banger console before it's time unfortunately
Would it be considered bold to say the 7th gen consoles produced some of the best games to date? The fierce competition between the 3 created some of the best games to date and fond memories with all 3 consoles. Starting multiple incredible series and franchises that are still milked or begged to death to have a remaster.
Eh, Generation 6 was better
Let’s play a game what do these games have in common?
Mario odyssey
Pikmin 4
Minecraft
Plants vs zombies
20:07
"oh, wii games have other *colours* than brown
*proceds to show Sonic Colours*
I guess it’s not a war all because I have all 3 lol. PC for Xbox games, Ps5 for ps “exclusives” and an OLED switch.
Xbox 360 for life
CHADBOX 360
The virgin PS3 vs the chad Xbox 360 vs the thad Wii.
Wasn’t Twilight Princess a GameCube title? Skyward Sword was the Wii release.
Both
Neither
When people talk about the console war. then they never talk about handheld. I'm not saying that Sony and Microsoft make bad handhelds. But Nintendo just can't be beaten when it comes to handhelds
me and my brother (before youtube).. use to argue for days about which handheld is better psp or ds… and then fast forward to youtube 7th gen era to see everyone on youtube doing the same thing but with consoles? was mind blowing haha… I didn’t even know that there was a big rivalry on playgrounds about nintendo vs sega lol I just thought arguing about the ds vs psp was just something that me and my brother did 😅
@@kcidd12 Of course the DS was the winner with 154 million handhelds sold making it the second best selling game console ever. And then it's not even a big difference because the Playstation 2 only sold 1 million more
exactly the DS is KING I was right about that haha I need to actually and dive even deeper into the DS library there's so many games@@joopvanhedel1372
What a time
Console gaming has been owned by either PlayStation or Nintendo the last three decades, it’s an undisputed fact.
Even though the 360 sold the least in total, I still feel as though it definitely won. It literally carried the entire generation.
It beat the Vsmile.
Smash hit for tv also
I bought a Series S and I love it, but Xbox are depressing as fuck - they clearly don't value making high quality games anymore.
As I say, I love it - an amazing emulation machine, gamepass, and you can buy games for zilch by changing regions - but I way prefer how PS and Nintendo try to move the medium forward.
This was when it was actually a battle between the big 3. Once Xbox fell off Nintendo went their own way and Sony is still chugging strong
These days, the PS5 and Series X are just lesser PCs. It feels like Sony and Microsoft know that which is why they port their games to PC for when the time to ditch consoles comes.
1st generation Console Wars:
Magnavox Odyssey, Atari VCS
2nd generation Console Wars:
Odyssey 2, Atari 2600
3rd generation Console Wars:
NES, Sega Genesis
4th generation Console Wars:
SNES, Sega Saturn
5th generation Console Wars:
N64, PS1, Sega Dreamcast
6th generation Console Wars:
GameCube, Xbox, PS2
7th generation Console Wars:
Wii, Xbox 360, PS3
8th generation Console Wars:
Wii U, Xbox 1, PS4
9th generation Console Wars: Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X
Saying xbox 360 release was mid is crazy. Gears of war and halo 3 were release titles. Those games great
They weren't release titles, the Xbox 360 was launched in 2005, Gears of War is from 2006 and Halo 3 from 2007. But when other consoles launched the 360 already had some really good games like Gears. Plus at release there were a few good games, mainly call of duty 2 and ghost recon but nothing too crazy
Man I miss when Xbox was good
There's no more console wars cus we all grew up and realized pc master race
No unless your Asmengold.
Ya know the days of 2 or more companies actually competing against each other when they are at their best is the thing of the past. Playstation Executives waited for both their competitors to be at their worst and decided to just declare themselves the winner by default. Sony has dick rided both the year and the concept of 2013 for a whole decade.
The exact words from Sony Incorporated when Killzone fell off was: "Fuck Multiplayer" at the end of 2016. PS Plus has been irrelevant since 2017. Conspiracy is that the whole company was suffering from 2006 Financial PTSD whenever an exclusive shooter was even conceptualized. The Last of Us Factions Sequel has been cancelled so many times even I gave up on waiting for it. Online Functionally for any of their first party titles became extinct for 7 years and I think people are getting sick of it.
I have noticed that Sony has been prioritizing westernized exclusives with a repetitive formula. Another Dual Protagonist Story Driven Game with way better reviews than it actually deserves. It’s not Single Player because there’s "2 Main Characters". Playstation Executives have told every Gaming News Outlet/Publication to repetitively say the phrase "Story Driven" so many times until the words felt like they were being shoved up our asses. It seems that every company involved in gaming has a blatant flaw based on management and design that they pretend doesn't exist. If your not proficient in creating something just be honest and transparent about it. Why is this difficult?
It always annoys me when people say Nintendo has a "kid-friendly stink." Nintendo’s aesthetic was the only one I ever found inviting.
imo, even as an adult now, I’m still turned off by Microsoft’s frat-bro stink and PlayStation’s basement-machismo stink.
Sonys woke as fuck. Xbox is a Tivo. Nintendo is a good android tablet.
Last great console War was the 8th gen, it ended fast thanks to Microsoft always online obsessetion.
Calling the Wii controls “gimmicky” idk about that
You played Starwars Emo wars😂. God that game sucked.
What else would you call it lol
@@colinftp3288 well in the definition of gimmick, it is called a trick. I just think describing the Wii controls as a gimmick doesn’t do them justice. I think they were revolutionary, which is funny because the Wii’s code name is revolution.
Some games did motion controls well, others could've benefitted from supporting the classic controller
Xbox 360 AKA Dreamcast 3
Resident evil 4 was literally meant to be on Wii
My least favorite Console Generation. This was the beginning of the end for gaming.
I only cared about the Wii. Xbox 360 and PS3 only went for realism.
@traviscunningham7062 Yeah, it was they lost their identities
So you prefer current gen over the 360/PS3 gen?
Fyi, Sony fought back to win this generation. We tend to not notice because of their terrible start but ps3 outsold Xbox 360 by the end of the gen. Microsoft actually used this in court during the blizzard situation to show how they’re the little guy in gaming
Sony was still selling PS3 up until 2016. It's like let it go already.😂
I was surprised af when my homie in class said he had a ps3, he was da only one i knew who had one lol. Bro inspired me to boss up but still wound up jus gettin a 360 lol. I was still ps2'in it and not even worried bout next gen at the time until den lol
@17:42 hell yeah
it used to be a fun time when it was a bunch of prepubescent kids shouting slurs at each other over this crap
now it's grown men pushing 40 being smug about which plastic box they own
Xbox's best generation still lost to Playstation's worst generation. That should tell you something
Blame jocks. The 360 was making grounds in Japan...but then they pulled a Sega...no weaboo games for you Japan. You will be an US Colany.