Shadow1980 said:
Obvious solution? Have MS Studios go third-party next gen and release Halo, Gears, etc., for the PS5.
In all seriousness, though, competition can be good for business. Sega forced Nintendo to change their policies regarding violence in games in the 16-bit era. Without the Genesis, being around NoA may have continued sanitizing titles for the U.S./Canada market.
Sony going with discs instead of cartridges allowed the PS1 to get games that may have been impossible to make on the N64; in fact, Nintendo's decision to go with cartridges in the fifth generation resulting in the biggest shift in the console market since the Crash of '83. Imagine if Sony decided to never make a console, the Saturn still flopped, and the N64 went essentially unchallenged. It's entirely possible that Nintendo would have stuck with cartridges as long as they thought it was a viable format, which could have caused progress in game development to stagnate.
The Xbox proved that a robust online service could thrive on consoles in a generation when the most popular system didn't even have built-in ethernet; Halo 2 in particular made Xbox live insanely popular, but if there was no Xbox there would have been no Halo. Had MS never entered the console market, online gaming on consoles may have never become as big as it is.
The 360 provided a cheaper alternative to the initially overpriced PS3, forcing Sony to change their tactics. And just this generation, well, imagine if there was no PS4. The initial plans for the XBO may have never changed and thus we'd probably have always-online DRM and have seen the end of the second-hand market as we know it (at least until the inevitable lawsuit that would've happened when someone sued over their first-sale rights being violated).
The console wars are a good thing. There should be at least two conventional systems in any generation, if only to keep the competition on their toes.
P.S.: And just think of all the games that probably would have never been made had Nintendo had an absolute monopoly on the market over the past 25 years, thus preventing every future console war. No Sonic, no Halo, no The Last of Us, no God of War, no Gears of War. Every first-party Sega, Sony, and MS game would have never existed in the first place. Granted, had they never existed in the first place we wouldn't be able to miss them and there probably would have been many other great games made instead, but history would have been very different today without competition.
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Well said. Everyone acknowledges competition is healthy for markets. Phil is kind of referring to the fanboys that take everything to far and feel the need to shit talk and make shitposts about the competition. The console bros should be sticking together as there are so many games that would be completely exclusive last gen getting ported to PC and not the other consoles.
But if you say it in a constructive way such as bringing up the insanely poor battery life on a PS4 controller, things can change for the better. Its a bit different for the console that is "beating" the others in sales because history has shown us making these types of upgrades is not the priority for them whereas if they were behind, they'd be going out of their way to provide like what MS is doing with the constant updates, the elite controller, and the hybrid HDD. I mean Sony fans were getting ticked off about the lack of meaningful updates which eventually led Sony to make a place to prioritize them via user feedback and go from there.
But yeah the constant shitposts about MS is getting old on this site as they are actively trying to do good. Some people think it is 100% about exclusives when it really isn't as most popular games are third party. Expecting 10+ AAA exclusives a year is silly as is bashing the company for not "spreading them out" over the course of the year. Its just a strategy they chose based on business statistics and people bashing the console as a whole because of it is ignant jafeel.
