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)

 

[wentwood]

I've had a Nintendo from NES - N 64 but lately I've been paying PS 1 and PS 2 games.

It seems like Play Station picked up most lines started by Nintendo.

So as that's the case I play mostly PS.

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

I've had a Nintendo from NES - N 64 but lately I've been paying PS 1 and PS 2 games.

It seems like Play Station picked up most lines started by Nintendo.

So as that's the case I play mostly PS.

Yeah, when so many "Nintendo" games made the jump to PlayStation, well... I jumped, too.

Not entirely. I had a Nintendo 64 first. But when it became clear a lot of stuff like Mega Man 8, Mega Man X4, Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, those two Contra games (I didn't know any better at the time), Street Fighter, and more weren't coming back the other way...

 

[Ungnome]

I never left Nintendo(the only Nintendo systems I didn't get were the 3DS, due to money being tight at that point in my life, and the Virtual Boy) but I did expand my options during the first two generations of the 2000's(grabbed all 6 major consoles and every major handheld of the era). Granted I was single and had VERY low expenses at the time, so I spent a lot more on games and hardware. Ended up going back to Nintendo and PC only due to my love of Nintendo owned properties and the fact that MOST non Nintendo properties I wanted to play were available on PC. The fact that my disposable income dropped significantly around 2010/2011 also contributed to me pairing down.

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

I mean, I never left Nintendo, per se, but outside of getting a Genesis for Garfield: Caught in the Act (and getting Sonic 3 & Knuckles in the process; it was going to be a portable Nomad, but that thing was still ridiculously expensive, so the Genesis II bundle was the better value), PlayStation was the first non-Nintendo console I ever got during its heyday (the Genesis was on its way out at this point).

If I'm being honest, it all came down to Mega Man. Whenever that's a factor, it usually does.

 

[The Predaking]

We got a NES the Summer before the SNES came out. So we got a lot of the games at a good discount. A couple years later, we upgraded to a Genesis, and a couple years after that my older brother bought the Link to the Past bundle. That was an epic game, but I still primarily played Sega genesis games that generation. We got a PS1 for Final Fantasy 7, and we skipped the Saturn, Dreamcast, and N64 systems. However, when I was in college, I got a PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube within a year of each other, and had a blast playing them. Resident Evil 4 on the Gamecube was awesome!

We got a wii eventually to play the Super Mario Bros game, but I didn't like the motion controls that well and hated that they didn't have HD in 2006. We got the Wii U, and loved it, but it died, and now my house only plays the Switch as the kids have broken my PS4 and Xbox One. The kids love playing Mario kart, Kirby, Minecraft, Animal Crossing, and Zelda on it.

 

[wentwood]

I'm playing mostly games that are 1st time for me on Play Station Classic Mini. Currently playing Syphon Filter 1 (PS 1) and hoping to finish Final Fantasy VIII , X and XII as well.

I had a PS 1 but the disk tray broke.

As for PS 2 need a new memory card. Mine is half full.

For the PS Mini I play 562 games on it. So I've been checking out a few fighting games and RPG classics from the PS 1 era.

Regardless of PS system my go to is

Final Fantasy
Street Fighter
Tekken

My PS 1 mini has all of the Final Fantasy games up to IX. (Minus Final Fantasy III)