{"id":60670,"date":"2025-01-31T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-console-wars-are-over-and-nobody-really-won\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T21:05:00","slug":"the-console-wars-are-over-and-nobody-really-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-console-wars-are-over-and-nobody-really-won\/","title":{"rendered":"The Console Wars Are Over And Nobody Really Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>For decades, <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/10-years-ago-sony-redefined-the-modern-console-war-1851031762\">a war has been raging online and in stores<\/a>. A fight between massive <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/sony-playstation-launch-limited-run-press-book-excerpt-1849595486?_gl=1*y5bp1a*_ga*MzQzNjkwNDM2LjE2NDY2NjQ1NzQ.*_ga_V4QNJTT5L0*MTczODM0NzY3NS4zNjIuMS4xNzM4MzUyODAyLjYwLjAuMA..\">corporations trying to sell you  plastic boxes<\/a> that play games and their weirdly dedicated supporters. The fight was always silly, but very real and expensive, involving massive companies spending hundreds of millions of dollars on\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/console-wars-are-over-ps5-xbox-forza-switch-2-sony-1851752956\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; kotaku.com<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, a war has been raging online and in stores. 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