Posted on 10/27/2025 2:23:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
GameStop responded with an edited image of President Donald Trump shaking hands with Spartan-117 aka "Master Chief," the main character of the Halo franchise.
The White House, this week, jokingly added the "Console Wars" to the list of conflicts ended under the Trump administration after retailer GameStop declared a formal end to the 20-year competition between Sony and Microsoft.
"NUMBER 9: President Trump presides over the end of the 20-year Console Wars," the RapidResponse47 account posted in response to GameStop. The retailer cited the planned 2026 debut of Halo: Campaign Evolved on PlayStation with cross-platform play as its motivation for declaring the conflict's end.
The "Console Wars" are a decades-long sales competition between Sony and Microsoft, which produce the PlayStation and Xbox game consoles, respectively.
The competition has seen both companies feature game title releases exclusive to their platforms, though titles have increasingly embraced cross-platform play, which allows Xbox and PlayStation users to play the same game with one another.
GameStop responded with an edited image of President Donald Trump shaking hands with Spartan-117 aka "Master Chief," the main character of the Halo franchise.
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these are great times we live in
I think the console companies should be shut down.
They ruined PC gaming, and “ported” games from console to PC are terrible and glitchy.
“I think the console companies should be shut down.”
Such a totalitarian view on a video game platform is concerning...
I have 6 console platforms for gaming and have no issues with them, well, except for my 1st generation Playstation which will not display sufficiently to play on a panel television. Got rid of my old school 200 lb Sony 32” Trinitron TV set, and didn’t realize the console display would be worthless without an older TV...
Miss playing Alien Trilogy.
("...and he-yah the lamentations of dere vimmen.")
Lol.. I have been a computer geek since 1980, so I am very partial ;^)
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