Corporate rivalries have pushed the industry forward since the Sega Genesis. These rivalries are needed more than ever for the future of console innovation. This is part one of a three part series, All is Fair in Love and Console Wars.
Limited Run Games believes that more companies will start selling a limited number of physical media in a decade.
Like a vocal minority demand?
On PS5 alone the digital sales made up 77% of all game sales in 2024.
https://www.truetrophies.co...
Also, I despise f*ckin limited run games because they will extort people that want a physical version by marking up the prices almost 100% so they make more. So a game digitally that’s $30 you can expect it to be $60 on LRG and don’t even get me started on the collectors edition prices… it’s borderline highway robbery.
Atari has acquired Intellivision. The company announced today that it had acquired its long-time rival, ending one of the original console rivalries, dating back to the 1970s.
Wow.... two of my earliest gaming platforms. All they need is Coleco to round things out.
This is like Nintendo buying SEGA.
YES! Colecovision was my start! I came to know Mario there in Donkey Kong before the NES was even a thing. :)
Good piece of history here.
edit: I wanted to read it but the cookies pop up is stopping me.
This was just before my time. I do remember my mom's friend having one all dusty in her apartment back in the day.
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People forget that console wars are part of the history of this industry. The console wars were started by competitive companies all the way back then and continued through Sega vs Nintendo, Jaguar/3DO/NeonGeo, and PlayStation vs Nintendo and Xbox.
These companies are across oceans and competing for the same business. These companies created the console wars, not crazy fanboys.
I had both. Snafu on Intellivision was addicting as hell. Also had Colecovision which had Time Pilot. Combat was probably my favorite Atari game and both Atari and Intellivision had similar games like Pitfall and Jungle Hunt. It’s been so long I don’t really remember which game I liked bettter out of those but I did play my Intellivision a bit more than Atari though I’m not sure why besides Snafu. That was 40+ years ago damn I’m old lol
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At various times during these console wars, Sega was fighting amongst themselves just as much if not more than they were fighting their competitors.
https://www.theguardian.com...
Also why no mention of Sega's handhelds in this article?
Am I the only one sick and tired of console wars?
It'd be so much more peaceful if there were more people out there just as willing to save up for two consoles as they were for their first one, and more gamers who could appreciate each individual console for what it is, software and all, rather than console war soldiers looking down on all but one system due to comparisons to competitors, or judging the relevancy/maturity/quality of the fanbases off of a few select games each system hosts...
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Competition is a wonderful thing and thats why exclusives are important, great exclusive games help to sell a console, its not rocket science.
Except the console wars actually started with Atari 2600 vs Intellivision...