• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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    Revisionist history. We were not living in harmony.

    The Dreamcast lovers cried into their Shen Mue.

    Game Cube fans quietly played Smash bros.

    PC Master Race was still arguing about sound cards and telling Gabe to fuck off with this Steam Always On Bullshit.

    For most of the gaming industry, you were either PS or Xbox. There was no unity.

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      And Sony was laughing at Microsoft for entering the console business…while simultaneously laughing at Nintendo for underestimating them.

      How the tables would turn a generation later.

      And turn again another generation later.