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PC won the war in the end.

We have the most games.
We have the best graphics.
we have the highest framerates.
We have all the console games.
We have the most gamers.
We have all the form factors.
We are still seeing userbase growth.



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There was never any console war. Nintendo ruled every gen with the most successful console, home, mobile &both at once all of them, every single gen except twice at home when PS1 & PS2 won. The rest is just wishful thinking by westerners. The only "war" was for 2nd place between Xbox 360 & PS3, and 3rd place between Gamecube & Xbox. Even the so called 16bit wars never existed unless you exclude SNES's Japan sales for some unexplicable reason, which would be pure nonsense in this case too. So there you go, Nintendo uber alles, and that's it.




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BraLoD said:
HebrewGamer said:

Nintendo is the only company with the ability to have a console war. No other company has the IP muscle to make console gaming work. The only way games other than Nintendo games are selling is by being on every platform known to man at an 80% discount.

Which is why Nintendo games will never go multi-platform. Please stop saying they will because they made some Mobile games. Putting your games on Mobile and using your IP to make mobile games ARE NOT THE SAME THING. You will not legally be able to play Age of Imprisonment unless you have a Switch 2 and they're going to war with the darkweb to make sure the only place you can legally play their retro library is on NSO..

Nintendo expanded into cinema and animation way back in the late 80s with the Super Mario Bros. Super Show and the Super Mario Movie. The only difference between Nintendo today and Nintendo in the late 1980s is their expansion into those realms worked today when it didn't work back then. Nintendo has always wanted to be the new Disney, and they're well on their way to that now.

The console market is shrinking because Nintendo is the only player in town with their competitors going a different direction. everyone but Nintendo has a strategy which deprioritizes console sales to focus on software sales, which is where the real money has always been anyway.

Imagine actually thinking like this as if it's real... just wow.

Did you plan to have some type of counter argument, or did you just want to leave your flaming bag of poop on the porch and run off?

Kids these days...



Pemalite said:

PC won the war in the end.

We have the most games.
We have the best graphics.
we have the highest framerates.
We have all the console games.
We have the most gamers.
We have all the form factors.
We are still seeing userbase growth.

"Console War"



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HebrewGamer said:
Pemalite said:

PC won the war in the end.

We have the most games.
We have the best graphics.
we have the highest framerates.
We have all the console games.
We have the most gamers.
We have all the form factors.
We are still seeing userbase growth.

"Console War"

Have you not been paying attention?
Xbox is going full PC.
Sony is embracing PC.
Valve is taking the PC to console.

Console gamers went from "PC is dying" to becoming part of the PC-Borg collective.



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Pemalite said:
HebrewGamer said:

"Console War"

Have you not been paying attention?
Xbox is going full PC.
Sony is embracing PC.
Valve is taking the PC to console.

Console gamers went from "PC is dying" to becoming part of the PC-Borg collective.

This is talking about "console war" buddy. Have you been paying attention? 

If you want to talk about the overall market leader in gaming, you need to make another thread(and you would be wrong there too).



HebrewGamer said:
Pemalite said:

Have you not been paying attention?
Xbox is going full PC.
Sony is embracing PC.
Valve is taking the PC to console.

Console gamers went from "PC is dying" to becoming part of the PC-Borg collective.

This is talking about "console war" buddy. Have you been paying attention? 

If you want to talk about the overall market leader in gaming, you need to make another thread(and you would be wrong there too).

Let me dumb it down some more so you might actually understand.
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The PC entered the console war and won... Thus ending the console war.

Perfectly relevant to this thread. - Your role on this forum isn't to tell people what is relevant and not relevant either.



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HebrewGamer said:
BraLoD said:

Imagine actually thinking like this as if it's real... just wow.

Did you plan to have some type of counter argument, or did you just want to leave your flaming bag of poop on the porch and run off?

Kids these days...

Why would anyone need to make an argument against a lunatic post?

Just making sure to point it out to not let it pass as something normal to post.



curl-6 said:

WW2 didn't end when Italy capitulated, (or Germany for that matter) the console wars aren't over just cos Xbox is throwing in the towel.

Fair point. Perhaps I should've re-titled the thread to something else.

But using the real-world analogy, Italy was a massive turning point for WW2. After that, the Axis had almost no chance of victory. And after Germany fell? Virtually impossible. 

Xbox has no path to victory (if it even ever did) in the console business. Their revenue is bigger than Nintendo but less than PlayStation. They don't have the profit margins Nintendo does, and they might even be less profitable than PlayStation even with their Xbox Anywhere initiative. 

Nintendo and PlayStation aren't in direct competition and have not been for a long time. 

Consoles will continue to exist, but the exclusive features, architecture, and titles are shrinking. 



Lifetime Sales Predictions 

Switch: 161 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million)

PS5: 122 million (was 105 million, then 115 million) Xbox Series X/S: 38 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million. then 40 million)

Switch 2: 120 million (was 116 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

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