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[Danjin44]

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Filthy rat!!

Get fucked i'm off duty right now

 

[Hudo]

Some have already said it and I agree: everyone "won".

People got arguably the best 3D Mario games and therefore 3D platformers of all time with the Galaxy games, Metroid Prime 3, Zelda Twilight Princess (I also liked Skyward Sword), Donkey Kong Country Returns, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Xenoblade Chronicles (one of the best JRPGs around and basically the "start" of Monolith Soft greatness).
Playstation 3, while not as great as PS2, was the last good thing Sony delivered. Their first party might actually have been the strongest in that generation. We got the Motorstorm games, Wipeout, God of War 3 (the last good one), the Killzone games, Resistance 3, Sly, the Uncharted games, The Last of Us, Tokyo Jungle, Demon's Souls and many other great games.
And Xbox360 was obviously the peak of Xbox. Was a third-party powerhouse and it was when Microsoft's first-party delivered banger after banger. Halo 3, Halo Reach, the Gears of War games, Fable 2, Forza Horizon started on 360, Project Gotham Racing (RIP) 3 & 4, Viva Pinata... all great games.

Console ecosystems were still simple and not the service-based overpriced subscription hellholes that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are trying to trap consumers in.

 

[SpokkX]

It was an exciting generation for sure

Sonys worst, until PS5 beat it

Xbox best still.

Nintendos was just crazy - but also interesting

Personally I probably played most 360 overall - so many third party games were way superior there

 

[Stuart360]

360 - PS3 - Wii.

It was a good boxing match between 360 and PS3 in terms of exclusives, but i feel PS3 just edges out 360 there. As for multiplatform games, which make up like 95% of the generation, 360 almost always had the better versions, sometimes by quite a margin, so 360 wins for me.

Wii is last because i dont give a shit about it.

 

[German Shocks]

Sonys worst, until PS5 beat it.

PlayStation 5 is objectively Sony's best console to date.
The existence of the PS5 Pro shows how strong the platform has gotten.

 

[uncreativename]

Also handhelds too. Any console gamers on the go had DS and PSP to choose from as well.

Nintendo definitely won/is still winning the handheld war. DS and then 3ds were awesome, and then Switch Lite. PSP deserved better, and then the Vita was just a failure mostly.

Even buying games on 3ds eshop was awesome. Your downloaded games were presents waiting for you to unwrap :]

I guess the Steam Deck's kind of a competitor too, but I don't think it's a serious threat to Nintendo yet?

 

[rodrigolfp]

What did Xbox actually win? Asking as a former 360 owner myself.

Most explosive console.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Clear winner: the Wii.
Second place: the Xbox 360, because it came from around 25 million and performed really well with 85 million.
Third place: the PS3, because it came from 150+ million and droped to 85 million. They were lucky to have the Blu-ray drive while Microsoft didn't. Otherwise, that could have turned out really badly.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

360/PS3 tied for me.

Loathe the Wii.

 

[Varteras]

I have a hard time looking back on that generation and identifying an actual winner. The Wii sold the most consoles and brought Nintendo back into the console space as a contender. Though they went right back into being thrashed with the Wii U. The thing is, Wii didn't have a commanding mindshare over the console space. Both 360 and PS3 were highly competitive at higher price points and missing the boat on the motion gaming fad that made Wii so successful for a few years.

360 put Xbox on the map and it was the only time the brand was truly competitive. It didn't introduce online console gaming but it opened the floodgates for it. PS3 managed to come from behind and ultimately surpass 360 in console sales while being the device that made Blu-ray a success and the default physical medium since. All consoles had fantastic games and none of them felt behind or really all that ahead. Early victories were eaten away.

If you ask me, that generation was the end of the golden age of console gaming. And it was a quite a crescendo. For probably the first time ever, all the major players were a success. They were all competitive. Picking a winner feels like a disservice to how special that time period was.

 

[German Shocks]

They were lucky to have the Blu-ray drive while Microsoft didn't. Otherwise, that could have turned out really badly.

Not really.

If the PlayStation 3 didn't have Blu-ray, it would've cost $200 less, therefore making it more affordable for more gamers.

The Blu-ray drive in fact hindered Sony's sales during the 7th generation.

 

[nush]

And Xbox360 was obviously the peak of Xbox. Was a third-party powerhouse and it was when Microsoft's first-party delivered banger after banger. Halo 3, Halo Reach, the Gears of War games, Fable 2, Forza Horizon started on 360, Project Gotham Racing (RIP) 3 & 4, Viva Pinata... all great games.

Xbox Live Arcade was massive in filling out the library. I wish console storefronts showed that much curation again instead of scrolling through indie slop, cat jump, horse, jump, hamster jump, cake jump so on and so forth.

 

[Banjo64]

Probably all being real. Wii did insane hardware numbers but pretty crap software numbers from what I understand. That being said, that's significant penetration in to normie brains for Nintendo.

360, disaster from a hardware perspective but great software in the first half of the gen. Second half tanked the Xbox One though.

PS3, great hardware worth the money but crap software for 3 years after launch. Came back very strong after that though.

 

[Parazels]

- Sony: PS3 + PSP + PS Vita + PS Move
- Nintendo: Wii + DSi + 3DS
- Microsoft: Xbox + Kinect

The winner is either Sony or Nintendo

 

[uncreativename]

and then PC gaming roared back to life towards the end of that gen and has been on top ever since

 

[Witchilich]

Second place: the Xbox 360
Third place: the PS3

You know you can't put Xbox on 1st, so instead put PS3 on 3rd. Let me remind you, in no way the PS3 lost to the Xbox 360.

 

[Hudo]

Xbox Live Arcade was massive in filling out the library. I wish console storefronts showed that much curation again instead of scrolling through indie slop, cat jump, horse, jump, hamster jump, cake jump so on and so forth.

You are right. That specific incarnation of Xbox Live Arcade was probably the least shitty. And it was a massive thing for Microsoft, if I remember correctly. They marketed the hell out of it, at least.

 

[nush]

Not really.

If the PlayStation 3 didn't have Blu-ray, it would've cost $200 less, therefore making it more affordable for more gamers.

The Blu-ray drive in fact hindered Sony's sales during the 7th generation.

It was the cheapest Blu Ray player on the market which not only got a lot of consoles under non gamers TVs that would eventually buy games because they had the console anyway, but help drive Blu Ray as a media format.

 

[BennyBlanco]

360 despite being a piece of overheating shit was a great console. Ps3 I bought at the end of the gen and it was also good for different reasons. I picked 360 because I liked the games better but both were valid.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Not really.

If the PlayStation 3 didn't have Blu-ray, it would've cost $200 less, therefore making it more affordable for more gamers.

The Blu-ray drive in fact hindered Sony's sales during the 7th generation.

They reduced the price by 200 euros shortly after launch with the 40GB version. At one point, the PS3 was actually cheaper than the cheapest Blu-ray player on the market, which made it very popular among movie enthusiasts.

You know you can't put Xbox on 1st, so instead put PS3 on 3rd. Let me remind you, in no way the PS3 lost to the Xbox 360.

 

[DEAD ORIGINAL]

You had to own all 3 consoles, Wii was great but it was a novelty, PS3 had great exclusives but was a terrible system, 360 was the place to be especially 2005 to 2010, Halo 3 was as big deal and that system had the best online community going, 1 Vs 100 with you're mates against the rest of the Xbox community and it was a live show with everyone's avatars pissing about the best time in gaming, and I've not even mentioned all the best cods we're on that system.

 

[nush]

and I've not even mentioned all the best cods we're on that system.

Multiplats were often better on 360 generally.

 

[Holammer]

But they were all of them deceived, for another platform was made.
In the land of Washington, in the fires of Mount St. Helens, Lord Gaben openly forged a master Store, to control all others.