The Great Console War is Finally Over

[Pocket]

Someone out there has been building new Sinclair ZX something-or-others; it pops up in my retro-computer YouTube feed from time to time and I always ignore it so I don't know the details.

 

[Ungnome]

I'm sure Comcast/Sky doesn't care to much about the IP and licenses it out to just about anyone willing to throw a bit of cash their way.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

In terms of “Console Wars”, I’d argue the last “meaningful” Console War was the 32-bit era in the mid-late 90s. Despite all its financial backing, SCE was effectively a “wild card” in the market and within its own corporate home.
But once Microsoft entered the fray in the following generation? It basically became corporate juggernauts slugging it out with libraries getting increasingly less varied. Now, they both sell glorified custom mini-PCs with AMD guts capable of playing mostly the same games (aside from the decreasing number of legitimate exclusives).

 

[Princess Viola]

Someone out there has been building new Sinclair ZX something-or-others; it pops up in my retro-computer YouTube feed from time to time and I always ignore it so I don't know the details.

There's actually been a bunch of Speccy clones using FPGA starting in the 2010s.

The one you're likely seeing is the ZX Spectrum Next, which actually came out in 2017, but they did a Kickstarter for new models back in December.

(Unless for some reason your feed is really trying to hype up that plug-and-play emulation version coming out next month by the same company that released that Atari 400 plug-and-play and the Commodore 64 plug-and-play [that they couldn't call the Commodore 64 and had to just call the C64 because they didn't have the license from Commodore to use the Commodore 64 brand name]))

 

[NovaSaber]

In terms of “Console Wars”, I’d argue the last “meaningful” Console War was the 32-bit era in the mid-late 90s. Despite all its financial backing, SCE was effectively a “wild card” in the market and within its own corporate home.
But once Microsoft entered the fray in the following generation? It basically became corporate juggernauts slugging it out with libraries getting increasingly less varied. Now, they both sell glorified custom mini-PCs with AMD guts capable of playing mostly the same games (aside from the decreasing number of legitimate exclusives).

Nintendo has had the top-selling console in two of the console generations after Microsoft got involved, though.

 

[Ungnome]

Yea. Nintendo is still Nintendo(for all the good and bad that is) and dos its own thing with a library different than what you see on the other two consoles.(outside of a lot of the same indie games, of course)