Its been 13 years since gen 7 endedin the end, who won the war?
>>730796109Halo made Xbox 360 the best
>>730796109I prefer the 360, but Playstation came out on top. 360 fizzled out bad.
>>730796152>Gaylo
>>730796109I'm not from the United States, therefore: PS3.
shit i didnt even mention the controller. The 360 controller was WAY better than the DS3. It's kinda crazy holding the PS3 controller again and realizing how cheap and awkward the grips and triggers felt.
>>730796109>The gen that began the great (and still current) gaming decline >Who won?Nobody.inb4 "muh sales". You can convince 10 million retards to buy a hunk of dog shit, literal actual dog shit. It doesn't indicate the dog shit does anything, it just means 10 million mouth breathers were retarded enough to buy oneGens 4 - 6 on the other hand, those systems and games were worth the time, money, and energy
>who won the warit doesn't matter because gamers lost. 7th gen was when everything turned into excessive cinematic shite.
>>730796180the level of fucking up the 360's moment on Microsofts part has to be studiedThey had everything they wanted>THE place to play all 3rd party games, best ports universally>THE online infrastructure, Xbox live was so ahead of PSN it wasnt even funny, actually made the price tag seem worth it>had all of the big 3rd party contracts, exclusive Japanese titles, timed COD and GTA exlclusive DLC>had Sony on their knees, could have kneecapped them for the forseeable futurethe Xbox 360 was the perfect storm that just fizzled out at one point because Microsoft just had to fucking have the wagglan market
>>730796205average ps3 owner's skin color
>>730796109The Wii and PC.
>>730796521And they've completely run the brand into the ground. The competition didn't even have to try. Microsoft is to blame for literally all that happened with Xbox.
had both when I was a kid, PS3 won out in the end because it kept being supported throughout the 2010s. paid online is also a scam, I remember back in the day people on internet forums(including /v/) would actually, unironically, defend Xbox Live over PSN because it had a better chat system or something(they were functionally identical). the fact these retards kept paying Microsoft $50 a year to be able to play peer-to-peer online games and thanking them for the privilege is what led to Playstation and eventually even fucking Nintendo putting up a paywall for online play. The 360 did have some merit though, especially early on. It was hacked fairly quickly so it was easy to pirate shit on it, which was the reason why I bought one despite the paid online(which I never used). Eventually the hardware got outpaced so badly even the family PC could run multiplats better than it, so even the ease of piracy lost its point
>>730796607it all started with the Xbox One. The 360 had a good run. RIP
>>730796597Ill give you the Wii but gen 7 was absolute hell for PC gamers>multiple longtime PC devs like Bioware, Bethesda, Epic,Crytek and Arkane going full console abandoning the platform>the era of the worst kind of draconian DRM. most notably GFWL>downgraded or downright terrible portsthe only thing that was a net positive (in hindsight) was Steam taking off
>>730796676>(they were functionally identical).not defending the 360 here but it wasntthe main difference being that the 360 party chat could be used outside of games and allowed people to chat without playing the same game (something the PS3 couldnt do due to lack of RAM)Something nobody predicted at the time was the fact that party chat would become the end of in game voice chats and trashtalking
>50% failure rate>paid online>controller requires purchasing separate batteries >can't play blurays>has literally no fucking games except halo and gears of warwhy the FUCK would ANYONE ever buy a goddamn xboxyou have to be a spear chucking nigger to defend this piece of shit console
The PS3 easily won.>No paid online>Way more exclusives (a lot of them eventually got ported but at the time they were exclusives like the Yakuza games for example)>Backwards compatible with the PS1 on all models>Official PS2 classics both ported and emulated and if you had a jailbroken PS3 you could emulate the PS2 with decent compatibility>Jailbreak offered more than the 360>Better UI, XMB is still the best UI ever made>Playstation Home >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Xbox Avatars
>>730796901>the main difference being that the 360 party chat could be used outside of games and allowed people to chat without playing the same game (something the PS3 couldnt do due to lack of RAM)They both fulfilled the function of letting you chat with other people. The differentiation you bring up(which I'm pretty sure was patched into the PS3 at some point) isn't worth an annual fee of 5 cents, let alone 50 dollars
>>730796905both of my Xboxs never failed and also batteries are fine, way better than needing to plugin and charge if you ask me. We could rapidly change out batteries like a tactical reload.
>>730797009>(which I'm pretty sure was patched into the PS3 at some point)it never got patched inThe PS3 wasnt capable of alot of UI features the 360 could do because it had twice the ram>cant form a partychat >cant play MP3 music in all games>background downloads
>>730796109PS3 for it's longtime use. 360 S and E models are dying en masse due to RDOD.
>>730796109Both PS3 and the 360 are just worse ways of playing PC games, and once you get away from the Japanese for Playstation and American 12 year-olds for the 360, they were also the least popular.No matter how much you dislike the Wii, it is still the definitive 7th gen victor among consoles.>>730796785It was hell for PC, but it was also hell for everyone else, they were just used to burning."Bad PC ports" were usually bad because of parity with consoles, not because they were worse than consoles.
