The console wars hit their peak through the PS3 and Xbox 360 period, and a former Xbox government has just lately defined why the corporate inspired it.
These of us who lived by the PS3 and Xbox 360 period of pointlessly arguing which console was higher know that discussions may typically get unnecessarily heated. However former Xbox government Peter Moore, who helped oversee the corporate in that period, just lately touched on how he “inspired the console wars,” as a strategy to elicit some wholesome competitors in his crew (thanks, GameSpot).
“We inspired the console wars, to not create division, however to problem one another, and once I say one another I imply Microsoft and Sony,” mentioned Moore on the Entrance Workplace Sports activities podcast. “If Microsoft hadn’t caught the course after the Xbox, after the pink rings of dying, gaming could be a poorer place for it, you would not have the competitors you’ve at this time.”
For the marginally youthful viewers, the pink ring of dying was an notorious state of affairs the place the Xbox 360 could be utterly inoperable attributable to repeated heating and cooling inflicting points internally. This in flip was an argument utilized by PS3 customers in opposition to the 360, and an issue that value $1.15 billion, based on Moore in The Story of Xbox documentary.
In fact, today the console wars aren’t a lot of a factor. There are nonetheless gamers who for some purpose get fixated on console exclusives, however for essentially the most half it would not actually matter the place you play, with increasingly video games introducing cross-play, Microsoft itself releasing a lot of its video games on PC, and even Sony releasing its first-party titles on PC.
Whether or not the console wars actually did encourage some wholesome competitors or not we’ll by no means actually know, however a minimum of we’ll all the time have the propaganda that’s “PS3 has no video games.”