Which Console Has Won the War of the 8th Generation?

BY PHANTOM: According to Wikipedia, we are currently riding out the end times of the 8th generation of gaming consoles. PlayStation 4, Xbox One and the latecomer to the scene the Nintendo Switch have all performed well, but which console has "won" this generation, all things considered?

[FallenAngel1984]

Still hilarious that Wii U isn’t even in the discussion about 8th gen consoles anymore.

Dreamcast was even brought up more often anytime people discussed about 6th gen consoles.

[iplay1up2]

Wii U, was a great console. I still have mine, because there are games like Xenoblade X, I can not get on Switch. Switch, has already outsold the lifetime sales, of Wii U, and N64.I had to get mine on Amazon, there were NONE, in any store around me. I thought that was strange, because Amazon, had some great deals on the Switch, I got mine, with two games for $299, the games suck, Hydro Thunder, and some party game. Still a good deal.

[Vetgamer]

I still think it's a great console Nintendo just didn't belevie in its own product. I'd buy a wii u over a switch any day.

[Question_Mark]

Getting a little generous with those commas, aren’t you?

[DivoJones]

Damn dude did you take English classes at Trump University?

[_SilverHawk_]

If it's a generation where playstation had a home console on the market then the playstation won. The ps5 already won next generation and it's not even out.

[BrettAwesome]

@vetgamer
Why the hell would you say something stupid like that? Almost everything the WiiU does, the Switch does better. Don't get me wrong. I've had countless hours of great gaming on WiiU, but to say that you'd buy it over Switch any day, well...it comes across as uninformed and stupid.

[notachance]

I always wondered when they gonna do Xenoblade Chronicles + Xenoblade Chronicles X remaster on switch

gonna buy it day 1 if it ever comes out

[septemberindecember]

I bet if Sega released a new console back in 2003 (5 years after launch) we probably would have forgotten the Dreamcast the same way we did Wii U.

[Maybay]

Haha...You funny. Imagine a console selling 13.56 million LTD in hardware sales, and having these software sales number.

Mario Kart 8 - 8.44 million

Super Mario 3D world - 5.82 million

New Super Mario Bros. U - 5.79 million

Super Smash Bros. For Wii U - 5.36
million

Nintendo Land - 5.19 million

Splatoon - 4.94 million

Super Mario maker - 4 million

New Super Luigi U - 3.04 million

Wind Waker HD - 2.30 million

Mario Party 10 - 2.21 million

[Marioraider18]

It only sold 13 million? XD

[Father__Merrin]

The reason for that its because that's all there was to buy. It was same with wii and even the switch most of what you see on shelfs are Nintendo games

[r2oB]

@ Maybay

Imagine a console with a software attach rate of 5.5:1, according to Nintendo’s website (Switch). For reference the WiiU was 7.8:1.

Either there are not many options when it comes to software, forcing people to buy the same games (lack of options); or there is an adequate amount of software available and people choose to buy the same games (lack of quality). Which is it?

On topic, the answer to the question asked is PlayStation 4.

[The Wood]

Even if the ps sold less than its main competitor it would of won on games alone

[septemberindecember]

It wouldn’t have gotten a lot of those games without the sales though.

[The Wood]

Their ethos is consistent. They always had plans for exclusive content

[septemberindecember]

@The Wood

Because their sales are consistent. If they weren’t publishers and developers wouldn’t make very many exclusive games for them.

[rainslacker]

Dreamcast had a lot going for it, and quite a few notable games. WiiU did have some good games, but none of them really became any mainstream success stories, and there were only a few cult classics that came from it. DC ended before it's time, but was part of it's generation, and had more power than the winner of that gen. WiiU came late in the generation, and wasn't ready for the gen that it was actually a part of, and was only a small step over the prior gen. NIntendo tried to recapture the Wii craze, and failed hard. It wasn't a bad console, but Nintendo had some bad decisions surrounding the system.

[ArchangelMike]

With Sony closing in on 100million PS4 units sold, I think it's a no brainer.

[rainslacker]

SouljaBoy's console?

[Nintentional]

Soulja boy should have marketed the Wii U. Wii YOUUUUUUUUU

[Thundercat77]

How is this even a question?

Are facts not clear enough? Playstation 4 is the indesputable winner of Gen 8 from start to finish. Wii U is Gen 8 and Switch is Gen 9 and even if you want to ignore that, PS4 is a the top.

[JackBNimble]

So the switch is going to be the undisputed victor of gen 9 considering Nintendo already has 40mil head start. It could be another year and a half before Sony and MS jump into next gen.
The switch should have sold 60mil by the time next gen comes for Sony and MS.

I can hear Nintendo fanboys already....

[mkis007]

Could be, but I'd bet that the Switch has 2 more years of 18-22 million sales before it takes a dive. Just based on Nintendo console history. It has portability going for it, but look how 3ds ended up... 75 million and it will end well below 80 million. Nintendo needs 3rd parties to get over the 100 million hump for the Switch.

It will hit 77 million at most within those 2 years, then sales will abruptly fall as the wii did. If the ps5 can replicate 3 out of 4 sony home consoles success it will beet the switch. VR is the new frontier.

[Thundercat77]

We don't care about what Nintendo fanboys say.

Gen 9 starts with Playstation and Xbox. Nintendo is on a bubble of their own.

[Relientk77]

1st place: PS4
2nd place: Xbox One
3rd place: Wii U

[IMissJimRyan]

If you add Switch to Wii U, PlayStation 4 still keeps first place.

[CertifiedGamer]

Switch is a 9th gen console

[Raven722]

@Nintentional , @CertifiedGamer

Actually, the Switch is considered an 8th generation console. A new generation doesn't start solely because a company decided to release another piece of hardware. It wouldn't even be the first time a company released two consoles in the same generation. Magnavox did it during the first generation. Atari did it during the second. Sega did it during the third. Other factors determine the start of a new generation. It isn't until the industry as a whole feels like it moved forward that a new generation is declared. This typically involves multiple manufacturers releasing new hardware significantly more powerful than their previous offerings. One company releasing a new device, especially when that device doesn't even exceed the power of current gen offerings, doesn't cut it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

[ILostMyMind]

I can almost see the Switch attached to the WiiU as the 32X with the Mega Drive.

[IamTylerDurden1]

PS4 will go on to become the second most successful console of all-time. There is an outside chance it could become the best selling console ever, it's still within the realm of possibility. Why even ask the question, PS4 has been oddly dominant and remarkably consistent all gen. Sony has taken control and dominated for 6 straight years. Microsoft went from boasting about numbers to tucking their tale and hiding any true sales. Wii U was a colossal disaster even though it has some great games. Switch is doing great, but it's not necessarily 8th gen and even if it was PS4 is still more dominant.

[sprinterboy]

It'll do about 120m lifetime, never will a game console sell 150m again imo.
120m is a testiment to how awesome ps4 has been though.

[BehindTheRows]

With it expected to ship 112.8m by next March, 120m is too low. Not, I don't expect quite the highs of 155m, but there's nothing suggesting a console can't do those numbers again.

[IRetrouk]

Pretty obvious no? I'm sure you will get some that say it's not about how much a console sells, or that's not the deciding factor but it is, the more consoles you sell, the more games and subs you sell, the more of those you sell, the bigger the profits, better support and a bigger fanbase.

[2pacalypsenow]

Between Xbox 1 PS4 and Wii U.

The winner is PS4 my a long mile.

[septemberindecember]

Not sure why the Switch is part of the equation. It’s too early to tell, it’s only two years old.

Out of Wii U, Xbox One, and PS4 it’s PS4 hands down though.

[Leemundo]

It's clearly Xbox, because I have one and haven't touched the others.

[thexmanone]

For Sure, And I played the others

[DaDrunkenJester]

The Switch isnt even an 8th gen system though..

[Raven722]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

It is. I posted a bigger reply to other posts but it's not the first time a company released more than one console during a single generation. It takes multiple companies releasing devices substantially more powerful than previous offerings, along with some other factors, to declare a new generation. The Switch didn't push us into a new generation of games.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Sorry, but no.
Generations are determined by sequence, not hardware power or fanboy definitions like "we decided this hardware is what's pushing a gen".
There isn't even a solid determine for who this mysterious "we", that decides what counts as pushing new games, actually IS, in that example.

If we went by that, then only graphics-specs nuts and vr fans would have any say in determining a new gen, which is just brain-dead.

The Switch is a 9th-gen console in sequence.

If everything were determined solely by publicly-edited wiki pages, we wouldn't even have sensible definitions for such simple things as the term "generation".

[pyroxxx]

Does not matter,.. Generation actually starts when Sony says so,.. so

[Arty84]

Ouya

[Question_Mark]

Who cares?

[TheSinsibleOne]

I can't believe how irrelevant Xbox has been this gen. Besides cuphead which was very creative. The usual 3 exclusives can only do so much.

[sprinterboy]

I played ori of the forest on me nephews also, great game and looking fwd to playing will of the wisp on his xbox also, other than that xbox has failed yet again to get to buy into there eco system.

[gamer7804]

Ps4 had the most units sold if that's what dictates winning the console generation.

[badz149]

selling most software, having multiple GoTY contenders and winners as exclusive...the PS4 is not just the total unit sold yo

[gamer7804]

there are so many categories in which a system can excel at like ones you mentioned, but you also forgot things like platform features such as, social, apps, multiplayer games, graphics capabilities, hardware capabilities (blu ray playback) controller design, subscription benefits, customer support, etc etc

[Shikoku]

PS4 obviously

[Kumakai]

sony obviously wins overall w/ most console sales and best 1st party exclusives i'd say. ms won on most power and best services, and switch won fastest growth.

[SkippyPaccino]

What I don't understand is why does Nintendo have the luxury of bundling their consoles together to pad the numbers in their favour? I saw the other day on that IGN article about "Top selling consoles of all time" and they bundled game boy and game boy color even though they came out almost 10 years apart... "but it can play game boy games, but in color so it's like the same thing" true, but PS2 can play all the ps1 games and we don't bundle those two together even if they came out 6 years apart...

Anyway you shake it, PS4 for the win!

[Mithan]

All things considered? PS4 obviously. Duh.
Xbox 360 last gen.

[Razmiran]

Wha? 360 was last place

[TheGamingArt]

Microsoft hasn’t won a single console race. Last gen they were a hard 3rd.

[YourSixStudios_YT]

PS4 is on pace to be the best selling console at the 72 month mark with close to 96 Million units shipped. For the 8th generation consoles, the PS4 has won. If you add switch to the 8th generation... Things start to be more competitive. The switch is selling very well. It has around 35 Million units sold and the switch only launch two years ago in march 2017 vs the ps4 with a release date of November 2013.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Switch

[The Wood]

Bitter

[Father__Merrin]

Ps4 is the winner with not only most units sold but with most games. Also to note I don't see xbox or switch games pushing gaming forward like the ones on Ps4

When ps5 and xbox2 launch I think switch is finished as in comparison it will look like a vtech toy

[yoshatabi]

Is this really a question? It's obvious who won.

[stonecold3]

ps4

[TheColbertinator]

Dreamcast

[Razzer]

I knew you were a closet Sega fanboy. Just knew it.

[TheColbertinator]

@Razzer

I've been a Sega fanboy since 91. Can't stop. Won't stop.

[Razzer]

lol....I'm right there with you, bud.

[The Wood]

Miss my dreamcast...I wanted one so bad I imported my one

[BlaqMagiq1]

Switch is 9th gen first of all.

Second, PS4 destroyed this gen. No one came close.

[Raven722]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

Nope. Switch is an 8th generation console. It takes more than one company releasing a new device to push the industry into a new generation. Especially when that device is underpowered compared to current gen offerings. The Switch didn't push the industry into a new generation and it's not the first time a company released more than one console in a single generation.

[BlaqMagiq1]

It is a ninth generation console. It doesn't matter how many companies have released their new console or not. It also doesn't matter how underpowered the tech is. Nintendo has released new tech that has left the Wii U behind, therefore creating a new generation of consoles.

https://nintendo.fandom.com...

[Traecy]

Clearly the PS4.

[AK91]

PS4

[thexmanone]

Xbox

[CertifiedGamer]

Tired of articles like this, it is obvious who won the console war this generation. It's Playstation 4. Whoever doesn't know that by now is an idiot.

[PlayableGamez-]

Playstation.
Sony has raised the bar for gaming this generation.
PS5 Day one.

[TheGamez100]

Lol isnt that obvious? And poor wii u excluded...

[Razzer]

This.....is a question?

[thexmanone]

I know Right, We all know its Xbox

[The7Reaper]

Soulja Boys console, duh.

But seriously it's the PS4, it's really not even debatable.

[DaGR8JIBRALTAR]

U can't be serious with that question.

[ILostMyMind]

I am pretty sure we all know who.

[Elda]

PS4!!

[feenix-5]

What the f....... For real? If you gotta ask then you have NO BUSINESS whatsoever in the gaming industry. GTFO you plank

[froy402]

Come on do we really have to ask this question, really?

[krauley]

Wait, shouldn't the war be the gamers versus the consoles or the gamers versus the games and not the consoles versus each other? I mean i could see a war of gamers against say a game like Sekiro or Dark souls, maybe Bloodborne. Probably a lot of gamers lost that war but others didnt and can carry on for their fallen allies.

How about gamers versus this stupid new media we have to endure in this day and age, seem like they are against gamers more than the consoles are against each other?

[ILostMyMind]

OUYA won hands down.