For decades arguments have raged — from school playgrounds to online forums — about which games console was superior.
From the era of the Super NES and Sega Genesis through to the PlayStation and Xbox, corporations have spent hundreds of millions enticing consumers to their side, from where they gleefully trash talk the other, deriding those with the temerity to choose a different brand as “Xbots,” “Nintendorks” and other names less suitable for print.
But the final shot might have been fired in the long console wars with a recent announcement that Microsoft will bring Halo, the shooter series that defined its Xbox machine, to rival Sony’s PlayStation system.
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