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Why PlayStation Is Winning the Console War | NerdistThe Console War, or the intense competition among the gaming consoles of large companies like Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, has been going strong since the '90s. With devout fans on all sides, that competition is usually pretty fierce. But in the past few years, a clear winner has emerged: the PlayStation 4. That’s right, the PS4 is even outperforming the beloved Nintendo Switch, having sold 19 million units in the last year against Switch's 17.79 million. Not to mention that the PS4 has sold a staggering 76 million consoles in its lifetime (statistics via Business Insider). (Incidentally, Microsoft apparently won't release their sales figures for the Xbox One at all.) So what happened? What caused such a flip from when the Xbox 360 dominated with Halo in the 2000s? Isn't the Xbox One supposed to have more processing power and better graphics? I have some theories. A head start Microsoft got off to a bit of a (self-imposed) rocky start with the launch of the Xbox One. The console was