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[Giallo Corsa]

My man Adam

 

[Unknown?]

Bring back FunCoLand!

 

[Baemono]

Okay

 

[Bernkastel]

The console wars in now Playstation vs Nintendo vs Steam

 

[reinking]

The console wars in now Playstation vs Nintendo vs Steam

I would add Windows.

 

[Crayon]

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Looks vaguely familiar.

 

[noob smokes]

some disgruntled employee

 

[Tajaz2426]

Funny stuff, right there.

 

[metareferential]

Lol at the xbots being offended.

Oh, by the way: GameStop has become one of the healthiest companies around. Go look at their financials.

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

Trying to use this to forget your own war crimes Gamestop. You murdered Funcoland and many other game stores.

 

[spookyfish]

How long do you think this peace can last?

As long as it can.

 

[MrJangles]

Gamestop will be as about as relevant as Xbox is when all digital will see them off by the end of this decade or thereabouts.

 

[Physiognomonics]

It's a pretty good PR move by Gamestop.

 

[Unknown?]

Trying to use this to forget your own war crimes Gamestop. You murdered Funcoland and many other game stores.

AREYOUOKAY?

 

[Arsic]

I hope one day if Xbox is still around and GameStop shuts down that Phil tweets some shit for the lulz to bring it full circle.

 

[LakeOf9]

 

[nial]

inb4 closed

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

 

[Snakeeyes646]

Cool, now imagine the price of these games when Nintendo & Sony have a monopoly on the console market.

 

[salva]

is this because they don't have any of their own good games to play

 

[kiphalfton]

If only they would put as much effort into running their stores as they do shitposting on twitter, maybe they'd actually experience success for once.

 

[krumble]

Does that mean Xbox has to pay all PlayStation players reparations for all time until they are truly sorry for even starting this war?

 

[yogaflame]

The console wars in now Playstation vs Nintendo vs Steam

 

[Enzo88]

Kinda funny and i understand It's probably stretched to fit what's happening, but console wars didn't start with Halo..
And probably will not end with Halo.

 

[REDRZA MWS]

Coming from a company dead in the water.

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

AREYOUOKAY?

Nobody is if you're looking for actual video games and not toys / funko's from their stores.

 

[TheGodfather07]

Who would have thought when GTA V came out on xbox 360 in 2013, that by the time GTA VI is out, Xbox would be dead?

 

[Corian33]

I mean, was there ever really a war? The commoners fought amongst themselves, but the PC players were ever the puppet masters, making them dance for our entertainment.

 

[Mondai]

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[Durin]

Seems official enough to me, fanboys gotta go back to the wreckage that is their lives.

 

[DaciaJC]

Aww, man, this takes me back.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

 

[YeulEmeralda]

There's always another war.

 

[DarkShadowXI]

 

[DeltaPolarBear]

How long do you think this peace can last?

The next battle is not with consoles. It is the PC OS. For a long time, PC gaming was on MS-Dos. Then Gabe Newell's team at Microsoft showed that you CAN run game software on a Windows OS. And from then on most PC games just run on Windows.

Decades it went, until MS tried to lock down gaming via PC Apps that also blocks mods. Thankfully the app format also has massive compatibility problems with Windows itself and as such the Microsoft store sucked and couldn't work. But Gabe can see what his former employers are trying to do, and had been building the Steam OS for years. And now the SteamOs is basically ready. The only down side is that major game studios have security systems that just don't recognize Linux as a legit operating system, and that is not Valve's fault. And with its light weight design, the SteamOS is now beneficial to hand held PC gaming hardware for being bloat-free.

Microsoft had taken gaming on Windows for granted. If they get challenged there they are going to have a crisis,

 

[Sooner]

Xbox has been the biggest driver toward all digital. It seems GameStop holds a grudge and it quite enjoying the demise of Xbox.

 

[Kerotan]

How long do you think this peace can last?

Until the next challenger arrives. 2 down bring on the next.

 

[Haint]

Gamestop has $9 billion cash (with a B), no debt, and are actually profitable thanks pivoting into collectables and closing losing locations. Target will go bankrupt long before Gamestop.

 

[MrA]

I chuckled, good job GS marketing.

That said, the idea that console wars started in 2001 w/Halo is also funny since there are still people fighting about 90s Sega vs Nintendo vs Sony all over the internet.

Those guys won't stop until they're dead.

These conflicts go back half a century, but they used to be a more gentlemanly pursuit

 

[Bigfroth]

Gsmestop to the gaming industry.