"Players loved to see Xbox vs. Playstation," says the former Xbox manager at console war which he admits he encouraged

Summary

At the beginning of the 2000s Console Wars between PS2, Xbox and Gamecube was an important part of the gaming culture.
Former Xbox Exec, Peter Moore, believed that rivalry was healthy for the industry and even encouraged it.
While the industry is more cooperative now, Moore believes that aggressive competition is necessary.

The great console warrs in the early 2000s were, what some believe, the top of the gaming culture. The big three went on it in a triple threat match with Playstation 2, Xbox 360 and Gamecube. Fans picked pages over which of the three had better games and offers and junk-talk the other two.

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Console war is over and we all lost

PS5 Pro is too expensive for games to be a viable hobby, the Xbox series S is too cheap to run games. We had a good driving.

Today everyone is a little embarrassed by how they behaved then. Although there are still some console heaters around, things are relatively calm. Nintendo does its own cause, Playstation is still focused on prestige titles, and Xbox is about to remove with exclusivity completely. The war may have ended, but former Xbox Exec, Peter Moore thought it was “healthy for the industry” and even encouraged it.

War, what's good for?

Which was discovered by VGC, in an interview on Danny Peñas Youtube channel for the Xbox 360's 20th anniversary, Moore admitted that he encouraged the console war when he could, and thought it actually got the best of the big three -Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.

He explained that “the beginning of the 2000s was a phenomenal platform for us to get off the back sides and get on the front pages and to be taken seriously as an entertainment medium”. This was after video games were in the limelight to encourage violence, distract children and all other things they were accused of.

“I think the console warrs you refer to were healthy for the industry,” Moore said. “Look, I've said it before – really, I encouraged the battle, because I think players loved to see Xbox versus Playstation, maybe Nintendo too, and that I think was a rising water that lifted all vessels.”

But he admits that the industry is no longer the same. He talked about Microsoft's new attitude towards exclusivity and said: “If [Microsoft] Had the choice, would they make hardware? No. Would they be happy if they could be a unit of several hundred billion dollars that deliver content directly to your TV, to which monitor you choose to play on? You bet. “

The company aside seems that everyone is coming now, but Moore believes that the aggressive competition is required. “Has it lost some of the feistiness that the industry I think fed and grew on? I think so, yes. “