How come every gen has one dominant console over the others?

[Kasz216]

My take? Gaming is social.


Back when your friend had a NES, you wanted an NES too so when you went over each others houses you'd be familiar with the controls, you could trade games, you could bring games over each others houses etc, and the games everyone talked about and excited about were NES games so you got excited about it.



Then games like Madden and COD became the big games. Multiplatform sure, but nothing sucked more then playing your friend in Madden if he had it on a different console. Then online became the dominant form of online play and you NEEDED the same console just to play him half of the time.