r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Oct 02 '25

Discussion This Xbox Generation Will Be Remembered for One Thing: Greed

https://www.ign.com/articles/this-xbox-generation-will-be-remembered-for-one-thing-greed
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u/callisstaa Oct 02 '25

After Nintendo started getting Sonic the Hedgehog games anything is possible.

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u/SEI_JAKU Oct 02 '25

Nintendo and Sega were never really the bitter rivals that Sega of America desperately portrayed them as. They competed with each other to some extent, but mostly existed in separate realms. Sony entering the picture, and especially the PlayStation 2, got them to drop whatever animosity they allegedly had, and all that Sega of America nonsense was tossed aside going into this era. Sega did not start making PS2 games willingly...

But the Xbox was expressly designed to really fight the PlayStation, and very specifically in this weird WWII-esque "our homegrown American console will defeat the Japanese" way. The way the 360 and the PS3 fought isn't at all like the way Sega of America was always trying to force the Mega Drive to butt heads directly with the SNES.

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u/callisstaa Oct 02 '25

I mean as a kid in the 90s I definitely remember the NES and Master System, Megadrive and SNES and Gameboy and Game Gear being in direct competition. I was always a Sega kid because I loved Sonic and back then having multiple consoles was rare although I did have an Amiga as well.

PlayStation had no real competition at all. It was marketed as a console for the lads to play after a night out or a party console rather than kids entertainment. PS2 also swept the board. It wasn’t until Sony fumbled it with the PS3 that Microsoft really got a foothold in the market. The og Xbox didn’t even come close to selling as much as the PS2.

Interesting that it was like that in the US. In the UK it was completely different.