Who Really Won the Console War?

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RolStoppable said:

fatslob-:O said:

I still say the Wii won. The PS3 was a total screw up by sony initially and your right about microsoft only leaching off from sony. Remember what malstrom said ? Winning a console war is always about having the least bullshit and it was the WII that had the least bullshit. Sure nintendo dropped the ball half way in the WIIs lifespan but it was still alot better than the sub hd twins until near end of it's life. Since when did third party support ever matter to a nintendo console ever since the n64 days ? (Except for portables ofcourse.) The WII was able to thrive without alot of third party support so why are you so down about nintendo consoles not getting any ? You're right about the AAA game model being unhealthy but at the same time those AAA games are the ones sustaining the gaming industry! Whether you hate COD or BF or some other massive AAA game like GTA V they are the ones who are ironically saving the gaming industry too. 

The Wii definitely won, but since Nintendo abandoned the console prematurely and went on to make the disastrous Wii U, they aren't really a winner in the end. 

As a result, the Wii's potential was never fully realized. The lack of worthwhile third party support plays into this too, that's why gamers didn't win. Which was a separate point in my post; why gamers lost, not Nintendo. I mentioned the blockbuster model on the same note as well. Why should gamers care about the current trajectory being sustained when it narrows down what gaming could be?

They may not really be a winner but compared to sony and microsofts strategy in the beginning nintendo had the least worst of them. 

Was third party ever necessary for the wii to succeed ? Think about that for a moment. Alot of the highest selling games on the wii was nintendo themselves. The gamers may have lost but that was their decision to not go on other consoles. 

Gamers don't really care whether or not to sustain the gaming industry. What they care most about are the games and alot of famous AAA titles do the job as expected and then you have uncontested hits like minecraft and wii sports. I think your a little bit too involved with the hardcore to make any judgement about what's bad and what's good. Why hate on the blockbuster AAA games when it's what gamers want ? The same applies to disruptive low budgeted titles as well. Gaming is going in a strange direction I haven't seen before. Gaming isn't being narrowed down per se but it's being expanded in other markets like mobile games or the so called "casual" online games on facebook.