The console wars hit their peak during the PS3 and Xbox 360 era, and a former Xbox executive has recently explained why the company encouraged it.
Whether the console wars really did encourage some healthy competition or not we’ll never really know, but at least we’ll always have the propaganda that is “PS3 has no games.”
But former Xbox executive Peter Moore, who helped oversee the company in that era, recently touched on how he “encouraged the console wars,” as a way to elicit some healthy competition in his team (thanks, GameSpot).
Those of us who lived through the PS3 and Xbox 360 era of pointlessly arguing which console was better know that discussions could sometimes get unnecessarily heated.