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Console war

A console war is the competition between two or more video game console manufacturers. While console manufacturers are generally always trying to outperform other manufacturers in sales, these console wars engage in more direct tactics to compare their offerings directly against their competitors or to disparage the competition in contrast to their own…

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Nintendo versus Sega

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Sony versus Microsoft

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Console war

Nodes156
Edges155
Triples129
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012821
Components1

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Console war

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related to The arrival of Sony and the end of the war · 31
Console war → At, CD-ROM, CD-ROMs, December, Genesis, In, It, Japan, Nintendo, North American, November, NPD Group, Philips, PlayStation, Saturn, Saturns, Sega, Sega Saturn, Sega's, SNES
related to Xbox Series X/S vs PlayStation 5 · 28
Console war → Activision Blizzard, Activision Blizzard's, As, Bethesda Softworks, Both, Call, Duty, For, Microsoft, Microsoft's, More, Netflix, November, Phil Spencer, PlayStation, PS5, Series, Similarly, Sony, Sony's
related to background · 18
Console war → According, As, August, By, For, Japan, Magnavox Odyssey, Microsoft, Nintendo, PlayStation, Shuhei Yoshida, Since, Sony, Sony's, The, This, While Nintendo, Xbox
related to 1990s handheld consoles · 13
Console war → As, Atari Lynx, Game Boy, Game Gear, However, Lynx, Nintendo, Nintendo's Game Boy, Sega, Sega's Game Gear, Tetris, The Game Boy, While
related to Atari versus Intellivision · 13
Console war → Atari, Both Atari, Coleco's ColecoVision, Following, George Plimpton, In, Intellivision, Intellivision II, Intellivision III, Intellivision's, Mattel, The, While
related to Legacy · 13
Console war → Blake Harris, Brawl, Console Wars, Mario, Nintendo, Olympics, Sega, Sonic, Summer, Super Mario, Super Smash Bros, The Sega/Nintendo, Winter Olympics
related to Nintendo versus Sega · 6
Console war → It, Nintendo, North American, Sega, Sony, While
is a · 2
Console war → competition between two or more video game console manufacturers, subject of the non-fiction novel Console Wars by Blake Harris in 2014
related to In video games · 1
Console war → The Hyperdimension Neptunia

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Console waris acompetition between two or more video game console manufacturers0.90text
Console waris asubject of the non-fiction novel Console Wars by Blake Harris in 20140.90text
3D graphics to keep upinstance ofWhile this gave them powerful capabilities0.80text
surpass those on the Saturninstance ofWhile this gave them powerful capabilities0.80text
PlayStationinstance ofWhile this gave them powerful capabilities0.80text
it was still a cartridge-based system limiting how much information could be stored for each gameinstance ofWhile this gave them powerful capabilities0.80text
Console warrelated to 1990s handheld consolesNintendo's Game Boy0.60section
Console warrelated to 1990s handheld consolesSega's Game Gear0.60section
Console warrelated to 1990s handheld consolesAtari Lynx0.60section
Console warrelated to 1990s handheld consolesWhile0.60section
Console warrelated to 1990s handheld consolesGame Boy0.60section
Console warrelated to 1990s handheld consolesGame Gear0.60section

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