Brief Thoughts: Console Wars II

Renewed, the Console Wars are.

I’m not going to offer any detailed analysis of either of the two major upcoming gaming consoles. Why? I won’t be saying anything that hasn’t already been said. I will say only that the discourses emerging from the competing companies, Sony and Microsoft, remind me of discourses I’ve heard before…back in my youth…when the competing companies were Nintendo and Sega. Does anyone remember “Genesis does what Ninten-don’t”? Compare that with “How do you share games with your friends on the PS4?…”  The Console Wars have returned, and let’s hope that we get a lot of really good competition from game publishers to make the branding meaningful again. Although, given that there are few console exclusives, I doubt it will be as productive.

That said, I’ll be getting a PS4 to start, and maybe, just maybe, I’ll get the Xbox One.