For as long as video game consoles have existed, there has been some sort of conflict between owners of rival systems across Atari, Nintendo, SEGA and for the last twenty years or so, Xbox, PlayStation and…still Nintendo.
This has created entrenched camps of devoted fans who go to internet war with each other with each new development across all the consoles, but now, more than ever, this whole thing is just…over. The “big three” have splintered in ways that simply do not have them competing in the same fashion as before, and recent developments at Microsoft seem like they’ve now ended this entire, often very dumb contest for good.
If there’s a winner here, it’s probably Nintendo, who has barely even been involved in any of this for years now. It’s sold a zillion Switches and exists on its own island of originals and maybe the occasional port of third party games that must de-scale themselves to work on the platform. Now they’re about to make a Switch 2 that will….sell a zillion units. In this video DreamcastGuy talks about the end of the Xbox Series X and why Microsoft is being forced to put games on PS5 and why Game Pass has failed.
