For decades, The war is going crazy online and in shops. Fight between the massive corporations trying to sell you plastic boxes These games and their strangely devoted fans. The fight was always stupid, but very real and steep, covering huge companies spending hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing, game development and equipment. And for a long time it seemed that console wars would last forever. But it happened.
The conflict has ended. In 2025 this is the end. Perhaps you missed it because everything did not end with a spectacular victory. Instead, console wars sailed out for various reasons.
January 30 Xbox announced plans to bring Forza Horizon 5 To PS5. By doing so, the company basically gave up one of the largest franchises of the exclusive Sony consoles and its PlayStation. It is really strange, considering that at some point Sony was a bitter competitor of Xbox.
Xbox is immersed from the console war
Internally, before starting 2001, The original Xbox has been defined as project midway. It was a reference to the Battle of Midway in World War II. During this battle, American forces definitely defeated the Japanese Navy. The name clearly indicated that Microsoft wanted to start the console war with Nintendo and Sony, and wanted to win. And for years Xbox, Sony and Nintendo fought with each other.
One would reduce its price, the other would launch a recent package. You can give free games to subscribers, the other would follow in their footsteps. Movement control has been copied. Exclusive were secured. It was a very steep war in which millions of children around the world were arguing at playgrounds, over which it was better, because teenagers and adults did the same on internet forums.
But now, in 2025, Microsoft was ready to give away one of his crown jewels –Forza– To Sony and PlayStation. It is part of the Xbox trend that creates a larger number of multiplatform games after purchasing Activision. Rumors are associated that even more games and Xbox franchise will cause PlayStation and switch. MASTER Main Collection It will probably appear on other platforms According to external people, sooner than later, as it is rumors (but unconfirmed) Gears of War Trilogy collection. Experts also claim that Fairy tale AND Starfield He will jump to PlayStation 5 and Switch 2.
Connect this change in the Xbox strategy, and Game Pass is available on a larger number of devices, and the company has reduced console sales for years, and it becomes clear that Microsoft is no longer fighting in console wars. It has probably not been for several years, but the news of Fr. Forza The jumping ship should be confirming that his transported white flag and decided to become a huge publisher, using the combined Game Pass power, all studies and Activision/Blizzard. It is also a strategy that already pays off.
So if Xbox ends, who is? Well, not nintendo.
Nintendo is no longer fighting in the war
Yes, the company releases Switch 2 and will sell incredibly well, assuming that the tariffs do not overstate too much price. But in 2025, Nintendo does not care about the console war.
Wii U was the last time the company standing behind Mario probably tried to compete directly with Sony and Microsoft. He released Wii U at the end of 2013, during the year from Xbox One and PS4, trying to implement a franchise of another company Mass effect, Call of duty, and Batman: Arkham sports competitions.
Wii U was ultimately a failure for Nintendo, and in 2017 he released Switch, almost three years before the arrival of subsequent Sony and Xbox consoles, Xbox Series X/S and PS5. Nintendo realized that he could do his job. It did not have to stick to the hardware cycle of elderly console warscompeting directly with other companies every five to seven years. Instead, Nintendo focused on giving fans of what they always wanted – the hybrid device combines their portable and home consoles in one – and was amazing success.
Switch 2, launched later this yearHe still shows that Nintendo does not care about the console war. He is not worried when PS6 or the next Xbox arrive. It doesn’t matter. All he has to do is make a recent console, which people want every few years and make sure that they still turn out to be the star of the first page for the machine. He can focus on himself and not worry about matching the GPU or Terraklop to Sony or Xbox in some endless console war. And as long as it sells well, external publishers and developers will appear from games Batman is working on the switch equipment.
So if Nintendo is outside and Xbox is not fighting anymore, it just leaves Sony. And yes, I think you can argue that Sony and PlayStation are still fighting for war. But if everyone left or surrendered, is it a war?
Sony is the last fighting soldier
Sony still spends a lot of money to secure exclusive games such as Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth AND Death 2. And unlike Xbox, he does not publish the great, on the first day, day of the first on PC or in this subscription service, PS Plus, during the premiere. He also spent millions of dollars on developing a recent medium-generation console-PS5 PRO– What makes sense if your competitors do the same and want to keep up with them. However, in 2025 PS5 PRO seems to see how Sony shoots a very steep bullet in an empty soil stain. Maybe a long time ago there were tanks and jeeps. However, not anymore. Everyone else moved on.
In the technical sense, Sony won console wars because it is a) IB still here is the last fight. Although this is a strange, empty victory.
While Sony fought with the elderly school console war-playing exclusive games and tried to get people with larger, more steep consolesXbox has gone and became one of the largest game publishers of other companies in the worldEarning millions of dollars through games sold on PlayStation consoles. AND Nintendo favors everyone Just doing your own things and not engaging in war. Meanwhile, free phone games produce more than all on devices that have never been associated with console wars.
2025 may not be correct The year of the console war ended, as it probably ended years ago, and now we can see that miniature skirmishes are slowly ending when the messages reach each front, the conflicts are still withdrawing when the fight, which after it all launched it, is in largely solved. I am convinced that even if more consoles are released in the future – which will be – the era of three or more companies spending millions every month to fight in many ways when synchronized hardware cycles extend for years.
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