| RolStoppable said: It entertains me when people begin to see what I've been seeing for quite some time. Yes, the console war as you know it is over. |
I saw this before the current generation even started. With the original Xbox MS exclusives consisted of Sega games, and ported PC titles. PS2 couldn't and didn't get any of MS's games simply because PS2 wasn't powerful enough to play them at the time. When gen 7 started the 360 had the same advantage. Games like Oblivion, Bioshock, and Mass Effect were still exclusive to the Xbox brand. Sony slowly recovered from it's early PS3 mistakes and started getting these games too. Once that happened Microsoft had lost most of it's exclusive franchises. Around the time that MGSIV came out the writing was already on the wall. Sony was getting all the non-nintendo exclusives developed in the east, and all the western developed AAA games to boot.
So there we were with Microsoft in a bad position towards the end of gen 8. And how did they choose to recover from this position? They announced the XB1 would be $100 more than the competition with possible DRM the likes of which not even PC gets.
The console war between Sony and MS ended with the XB1 reveal. We've just been watching a slaughter ever since. MS is in just as bad a position right now as Nintendo was with the N64.
