Who won in the end?

Who won in the end?

Nobody. We all lost.

wii obviously won, both microsoft and sony even admitted it

>i-it's not really competing with us, it's a separate thing
lyl

Depends on what mental gymnastics each fan base wants to put themselves though to defend their console of choice.

Personally, I had all 3 and there were pros and cons to them all. Sony had issues with PSN and some ports ran worse. Xbox was plagued with online fees and dudebros, and the Wii had tons of shovelware and the motion control. I'll simply just rely on sales and say the Wii won, but the success caused Nintendo to fuck up with the Wii U.

Filtered.

I have all 3, but the console I tend to go back and play the most is the Wii, or more specifically, dolphin nowadays.

even if nintendo acted retarded ever since, clumsily trying to recreate that success, wii wiped the floor with competition

PS3
Uncharted 2
The last of us
Journey
MGS4
Demons souls
Heavenly sword
Yakuza series
Ni no kuni

Gamers lost
3 consoles, 10 years, and hardly any games to play on them

Wii ended having less shovewere than the ps2

I won. 360 and wii was the way to go last gen. So many incredible games on both

/thread

Microsoft. Wii burned brightly for a few years but had to be hurriedly replaced while PS3 lost Sony all of the money they'd made with PS2.

Most nintendo consoles typicall live 4 years anyway

Last gen was abnormally long and stretched out for everyone because of the 2008 recession, the scorpio and switch are showing that 4/5 year console cycles are back

why the fuck was this gen so long

>why the fuck was this gen so long
Technological progression came to screeching halt in 2010.
And this hasn't yet, tech is still not far enough to grant a new console generation.

Economic crisis of 2008

I mean, exclusives? The wii. As much as i hate to admit it, the wii, if it were twice as powerful, it would probably be the best console of all time. You could do so much with it, 90% cause of the hacking community and homebrew. The wii will never die as a console because of homebrew, 20xx and the like.
Of course, the wii has some all time highs for nintendo but some huge all time lows as well.

Multiplats: 360
Longevity and excluisves: ps3
Overall: wii

The Wii made Nintendo a shit load of money
I'd imagine the Xbox 360 made Microsoft a good amount of money
The PS3... well someone said it ended up costing money, and I'm not confident enough to counter-say them

So I'd say Nintendo won as it made the most money

>Uncharted 2
>The last of us

Microsoft has never profited of of consoles, seriously, look it up. The OG xbox would've killed quite literally any other company on the planet except microsoft, thats how huge the losses were.

The Wee was a shitty meme console but had the most sales so I'd say Nintendo won.

The 360 was the "best" console but had the Ring of Death.

PS3 had no games and wasn't as powerful as the 360. It had free online but it was garbage compared to Xbox Live.

Wii had SMG 1 and 2, so Wii won.

But that means that it lost.-_-

>phantasy star universe, halo 3, chromehounds, cod4, ninja gaiden 2, lost oddyssey, bad company, oblivion

360 for me

The Xbox division became profitable in 2008.

>ps3 made money
ps3 was nearly the reason, why sony went bankrupt

Wii sold the best. Hardware was cheap for Nintendo, meaning every sold console was a pure profit,
360, while in the end was outsold by PS3, earned shitloads from multiplats and Xbox Live subscriptions, while console itself wasn't PS3 expensive.
Meanwhile Sony was forced to sell hardware with loss and Cell was a mistake for both Sony and developers.

Yet PS3 outlived all others and is still sold today.

Foxconn

>uncharted
>last of us
>list padding
might as well add puppeteer

>Calls out Uncharted 2 and TLOU but not fucking HEAVENLY SWORD
Quit drinking the Sup Forums koolaid so hard

PS3 for me. Wii quickly fizzled out and the only 360 games I was ever interested in were N64 ports of Rare games. Shame the PS3 version of Bayonetta was so shit though.

PS3. It had a stagnant start but it ended up being the console with the most worthwhile exclusives and multiplatform ports

the jews

dont talk out of your ass, sony makes plenty more than games. gaming has been one of the least of their worries

In Japan, sure. But that's mostly due to lack of backward compatibility of the latest console addition.

>outsells both the 360 and PS3 combined
>lost
Ok, champ

>In Japan, sure.
What? I bought a PS3 new this year, because it's still in production. Try that with a 360!
Or even Wii. kek.

The Last Of Us.

I'll say no more.

Xbox had a good start but turned into a dudebro console
Wii by sales and games
PS3 finally got games at the end of its console cycle.

Wii made bucketloads of money for everyone involved.

PS3 ended up costing Sony billions, turns out that selling your shitty nogaems console at a $200 loss is a bad idea.

360 barely pulled itself into the black at the end of its lifespan.

>Wii made bucketloads of money for everyone involved.
Yeah, everyone bought the gimmick and then it gathered dust after they got bored of Wii-sports few days later.
Wii had atrocious attach rate. First party titles sold as always but third parties complained about low sales.

So the Wii made Nintendo money

Seems like it served its' purpose
Though I'd imagine it soured relations with 3rd party developers, it still made money, for Nintendo, who created it to make money.

PS3

Wii got an emulator early so no reason to stick to that piece of shit toaster when you can play the games in better resolution and frame rate and have all the motionplus features intact.

360 is a shitbox, just like the previous, and it have the shittiest controller with it's analog placements.
HALO is shit and all the "xbox" games are shit, so is the playerbase.
Just like Apple, Xbox is American and the user base with such devices are always frat/trash-tards.

DS2, DS3 and now DS4 have all been upgrades to the perfect controller, the Dual Shock.

895.22 million games / 101.63 million consoles = 8.8 games per Wii

595 million games / 80 million consoles = 7.4 games per PS3

The Wii literally has a higher attach rate than the PS3. It also has 269 more games in total, so apparently third parties didn't mind lower sales since the budgets were also ten times lower.

>Cheap shit is easier to buy than expensive gold.
Wow, who would've thought that?

This

>Xbox = Chads/Normies
Needless to say I knew many of these types who told me the Xbox was the superior system without realising it normalised enforced paid online and completely cucked the gaming industry

>Wii = Literally everyone
The wii objectively lost since the hype around it completely dropped when everyone realised it was a niche concept but the library of games was shovelware, remakes and rehashes. I like this quote spoken on twitter, "The wii was the console everyone owned but nobody played"

>PS3 = Gamers
Objectively had some of the best exclusives, and regardless of info leaks it was the last good online service to be free. But it suffered from poor graphics and poor framerate on a lot of games.

>WII ATTACH RATE IS ABYSMAL!
>It's higher than that of the PS3
>THOSE GAMES DON'T COUNT!

How are those goalposts feeling user?

>>PS3 = Gamers

BRUH HAVE YOU HEARD OF THIS GAME CALLED THE LAST OF US! YUOU GET TO KILL ZOMBIES AND SHIT. I JUST PICKED IT UP GAMESTOP.

Let me put it into perspective then
>PC = Gamers

>PS3 = Normies with better taste then Xbots

THE STORY IS UTTERLY AMAZING. A MODERN MASTERPIECE. TRULY ONE OF A KIND.

yeah, but wii U was released so besides PS3 being good at the end in that time nobody cares or at least people who matters and make money buying games and consoles.

Xbox Live doesn't run for free

PSN though, probably does

> sperged

FTFY

The Wii won as far as sales go.

The 360 and PS3 basically tied. PS3 was weak in the first half of the generation but picked up momentum later on, while the 360 had the opposite problem. They both have fine libraries, with lots of multiplats shared between them with a few exclusives that cater to their respective audiences.

Though I really think the most noteworthy platforms last gen were really the handhelds, which are arguably the best we've ever had and the last generation before the mobile takeover, and rise of Steam as a major service.

>Console thread
>Lets talk about PC
you fuckers never shut the fuck up

>Ni No Kuni
b8

>>PS3 = Normies with better taste then Xbots
so besides Movie games like the last of us who doesn't are as great as people said and niche and japan games in an age whereas japanese games doesn't matter anymore, who has ps3?

in western aspects and western titles xbox 360 is better.

Playstation 3 for the exclusives
Xbox 360 for the majority of the multiplats
Wii because was something new

xbox

It's funny all you playstation people are in denial

the competition is higher and more competitive in general on xbox live

i even remember elpresador switching from playstation to xbox because playstation players camped too much, hahaha scrubs

>people say ps3 for exclusives

what exclusives? hd remakes?

> didn't 360 noscope blazeit teabag weedlmao enough

Who is the scrub?

In terms of which console is currently the best to buy of those three? The PS3 no doubt.

Reasons to buy a 360
>Halo series
>uhhh...nothing else worthwhile
Reasons to buy a Wii
>Super Mario Galaxy
>RE4 on Wii
>Maybe Metroid trilogy?
Reasons to buy PS3
>MGS4
>DeS
>Ninja Gaiden Sigma
>Journey
>SOTC at a stable framerate
>KH1 and 2 with Final Mix content in English
>FFX with PAL bonus content
Et cetera

Commercially the Wii won.
From the standpoint of someone who loves video games the Wii and PS3 won.
For a living room media machine the PS3 won.

You know who really fucked us though was the X Box. Now every console has paid online because the dumb shits retarded enough to actually buy a fucking X Box despite no games, a fucking HD DVD player add on and corded microphone sets then decided they would be dumb enough to pay for online too. Sony saw this and said "well shit, i guess paying for something they usually get for free isn't a deal breaker for these fucking idiots, now we can charge for online too!"

Go fuck yourself anyone who bought a fucking XBox.

no

xbox
>gears of war
>halo
>fable 2
>forza
>crackdown
>dead rising (was exclusive before this shit gen)
>saints row 1

following your logic: mobile gaming> ps4, xbox one, wii u or pc

This boards filled with Sony and Nintendo fan boys, 360 won.

Literally anyone in the real world knows this.

Halo and Crackdown sure but the rest is shit.
Isn't Forza fucking 30fps? Even if it isn't it's a total casual version of GT

>30fps
well meme'd

>Muh free online

It's service was 100x better then PSN. I don't think you remember how bad it was during that gen.

Am I wrong? is their fucking flagship racing game 30fps?

>Reasons to buy PS3
>>MGS4
worst metal gear
>>DeS
dark souls beta
>>Ninja Gaiden Sigma
xbox games
>>Journey
>>SOTC at a stable framerate
ps2 games
>>KH1 and 2 with Final Mix content in English
ps2 games
>>FFX with PAL bonus content
ps2 games
>Et cetera

This is pathetic.
>Dark Souls beta
Too bad in many aspects it's just a better, less cancerous game.

I've had a PS3 since MGS4 came out and I only had a single problem with the online which was during that crazy hack or crash or whatever it was. Lasted for a week and a half and they gave out free games for compensation.

Aside from that one incident I've never had a problem. Maybe this is because I live on the east coast or something but the PSN has been very good to me and the "dashboard" was never commercialized garbage.

Please don't defend paying for something that we should be getting for free. Only the worst kinds of people do that.

PS3's beginning game draught was hilariously bad.

Like you either played Resistance or Ridge Racer and that was all the shit you got. For years.

By the end though both consoles were doing pretty good. Sony had a solid lineup of cool exclusives like Miku and The Last of Us.

Resistance 3 is actually very good which is weird since the first 2 games are the definition of 5/10 its passable. Series went back to shit with Burning Skies though. Pretty unfortunate.

I prefer the 360 because of the controller. I hate the Playstation controller. Its always something I've just kind of dealt with because how else were you going to play Final Fantasy and Silent Hill? Luckily with the PS4 they stopped that, PS4 controller might be my favorite on the market honestly.

30fps for games is fine

so 90% of a console's lifetime is the beginning?

The gen was basically over by the time PS4 started getting any games, great job

t. someone with a fat for that sweet sweet BC

Motorsport is 60

why don't you put japan games too as PS3 users do?

most jap games are shit desu

Not in a fucking racing game you degenerate, it effectively becomes 15fps due to the speeds.

uh source?

As long as the framerate is stable it's groovy

Dunno about ps3/wii but the 360 was s h i t

Again, not in a racing game.

I have no trouble playing it at either t.b.h.

The framerate hit is only noticeable for the first few minutes

The ps3 was just an HD ps2, so that takes the cake for me.

so was the point of PS3 users saying that ps3 is better than 360?

IN THE END IT DOESNT EVEN MATTEEEEERR

Yes, pretty much this, your point?

From a business perspective the Wii won. It sold the most consoles.

Also made the most profit. Hell, it was the only console to actually make profit.

>I had all 3
Why?

no one, console wars ended in the spring of 2000.

u millennials are late to the party every year talking about who won/lost at E3...

My wiiis a dust collector. After buying the actual good nintendo exclusive games everything else is average at best or plain shovelware. Meanwhile I still play on my 3DS and ps3

PC

sony went from a console that sold 158 million to a console that sold 87 million.

microsoft when from a console that sold 25 million to a console that sold 86 million

nintendo went from a console that sold 22 million to a console that sold 101 million

hint: sony lost

the players

Sales? Wii
Quality? Xbox 360, mostly pre-kinect