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What happened to the console war?

February 08, 2012 in Blog comments 12

It was recently announced that the Xbox 360 has topped all consoles in worldwide sales last year for the first time since 2006. This would have been huge news just a few years ago. What happened to the console war?

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    Red 9 Feb 8, 12
    Be warned people; this article isn't about the console war, it's about how PS3 owners are fanboys and how the 360 is "dominating" the global market.

    We were doing fine until you brought this topic back up. The gap between the 360 and the PS3 isn't all that huge. I don't judge the success of my console on a simple year-by-year basis, I judge it based on its total lifespan. And in that regard, neither the PS3 nor the 360 have "dominated."
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      Xander756 Feb 9, 12
      It doesn't say the 360 is dominating the global market. It says it has been dominating the North American market. The article also doesn't call PS3 owners fanboys, it simply says that Sony fanboys are the worst of the lot. I am afraid you misunderstood the premise of the article and took away several meanings of things that were not written anywhere within it.
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        ShadowGuard Feb 9, 12
        well, someone saying a certain group of fanboys is worse than another makes it just as bad. I dont give a shit about fanboys, but I am tired of these teenage and young adult americans gloating about their xbox and bashing others with a PS3. From my experience, xbox fanboys are worse, but I try not to pay too much attention to it.
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        Red 9 Feb 9, 12
        It doesn't have to be explicitly written. It just seem like it was being sublimonally implied. Whether or not you intended to convey that message, it seemed to imply itself in the article regardless. Using out-of-date references weakens the argument (the aforementioned Haze and MAG), and using a part to represent the whole of a console's success further weakens the argument. The console war is dead because no one cares anymore; no one cares anymore because all sides of the "war" are providing excellent gaming experiences and are all achieving similar levels of success. And the article seems to ignore the fact that the PS3 does exceptionally well in the UK and Japan. North America is not the whole world.

        If I'm misinterpreting the article, then perhaps a longer, more defined and developed argument may have helped this argument
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    yugiRULER Feb 8, 12
    And Yet the wii has!
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      ditto* Feb 8, 12
      Haha not a chance. But it is hard to compare the wii with the other consoles just because they both have a fairly different assortment of available games.
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        Xander756 Feb 9, 12
        Plus the Wii was priced far lower than the other two consoles for quite a long time. Only after several price drops were they really "competing" against one another, and then suddenly the Wii stopped performing as well.
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    Province Feb 9, 12
    If the article was any good Xander wouldn't be defending in the comments section, gonna skip this. Good effort though!
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      Xander756 Feb 9, 12
      There is a difference between "defending" and "correcting." Red 9 was making assertions that were nowhere in the article whatsoever. If you disagree with what's in the article that is one thing, but pretending it says something that it doesn't is another entirely.
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        Province Feb 10, 12
        "Plus the Wii was priced far lower than the other two consoles for quite a long time. Only after several price drops were they really "competing" against one another, and then suddenly the Wii stopped performing as well."

        If your article was so amazingly done, why does that need to be brought up in the comment box?

        Along with;

        "It doesn't say the 360 is dominating the global market. It says it has been dominating the North American market. The article also doesn't call PS3 owners fanboys, it simply says that Sony fanboys are the worst of the lot. I am afraid you misunderstood the premise of the article and took away several meanings of things that were not written anywhere within it."

        Maybe they misunderstood the point because you've brought it across poorly?

        If you're brought your point across well you don't need to 'correct' them in the comment box. Likewise if you still believe your opinion is clear, bold and hard to miss yet still people are disputing it then accept they didn't agree with you and move on to your next article. Internet journalism in a paragraph, more or less.
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          Xander756 Feb 10, 12
          Reading comprehension problems mebbe? Sometimes it is best to keep in mind that the person I was replying to may be a 12 year old.
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    Insanity Prevails Feb 11, 12
    Insulting someone by suggesting they're a young child because they appear to have misunderstood your point. Sometimes wish GG still had down thumbs.

    To be fair here, some comments in the article seem to exist purely to provoke people. Like the PS3 fanboys comment. "it has often been said" is a classic bullshit line that lets a journalist feed in a claim that probably isn't even true purely on the basis that "someone's probably saying it somewhere". And then you continue to refer to them as PS3 fanboys. You can't do that and then be surprised when people react adversely to it. Unless you're intentionally trolling the shit out of PS3 fans, in which case... good for you I guess?

    And yeah, reading the article gives me the impression it's more about how well the Xbox 360 is doing, with the console war angle just being an excuse. Not that I care if that is what you want to do given you seem to be writing specifically for the Xbox 360 part of the site (even if you might want to use a few more up to date reference points and less fanboy terms), but it might have helped to do it more from an actual "how far Xbox 360 has progressed" angle.

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