The Growing Pains of the Early 2000s (PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube) | GEEK CRITIQUE

In AD 2001, war was beginning. Sega left the hardware business, but the failure of the Dreamcast was about more than just Sega. It was the failure of the design philosophy that had, until this point, defined console gaming. Nintendo suffered under this new paradigm, while Microsoft rose up, and the PlayStation 2 thrived, becoming the hottest console the world has ever seen.

The industry would never be the same, and to find the silver lining in what it became instead would take a long time and a lot of growing up...

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