Hello people of 64Digits. Today I am not posting another top 5. I will do that another day. Right now I am going to have my say on something that everyone has been talking about since 2006, "Who will win this console wars?". Before I answer that question I have to look at one of the most important parts of any war, the games. Not just any games, the making and cementing games.

What are making and cementing games? These are exclusive games that help establish the consoles position in the marketplace as well as giving the fans and companies bragging rights on what is best. Making games are usually the first games that come on the console, launch titles or titles that at least make people by the console just to play the game. Usually such game have a lot of replay value to distract the consumers long enough for the cementing games to be made. The cementing game is the game that makes the consumer happy he purchased the console, the mega hit that is usually (but not always) better than the making game. They are the ultra polished games that you will recommend your grand children play.

Again, before I go into this generation of consoles, let me start in a time when console war was law.

THE 16 BIT ERA.

If recall, this was the fiercest console war of all time. Sega and Nintendo were trying to kill each other with every trick in the book. Sega had good games and so did nintendo. However, Nintendo won. Sega's making game was on sonic. He was a launch title, really fun to play and sold millions of copies, Unfortunately the genesis, didn't have a cementing game (unless if you call sonic CD a cementing game and it doesn't count cos the Sega cd didn't sell). Nintendo's making game was Super mario world. What is there to say about mario world. It is one of the best games of all time (I will make a top 50). The cementing game is, of course, Donkey Kong country (and maybe final fantasy 6). These games are wonderful, selling millions of copies and encouraging the many 3rd party developers to make games for the Snes since mario already made it sell millions of units.

WINNER: SNES

THE 32 BIT ERA

OK, this was a hard one to do, with the very many consoles out there, 3DO, PS1, N64, Saturn, etc. Let me get the poo out of the way first. 3DO, Jaguar and Amiga CD-32 sucked. They had no making games (let alone cementing games) and the saturn was so hard to work with (what kind of an idiot makes a system with 2 CPU's). As for the N64, the maker was none other than Mario 64. This is the ONLY reason people bought the N64(other than mario kart 64). The cementing games wher Goldeneye and ocarina of time, another greatest games of all time.

Unfortunately, the N64 was not a CD based console, forcing Square to bail from Nintendo and make FF7 for the Playstation. This was the making game for the PS1, and the cementing game was Metal gear. That, and the fact that it was easier to make games for the PS1 made them win the war.

WINNER: PS1

THE sixth-generation era

This had to he the most lucrative era of all. Games had matured and the average gamer was 29 years old. This was the time sega died, and microsoft arose (seemingly out of nowhere). Nintendo lost this war for being a kiddie company, but they had not given up. There making (and in some cases cementing) game was Smash Bros Melee, the 3rd best selling. The cementing game was Metriod prime, but this was unfortunately not the best FPS of all time, or even of the time. The best was the Xbox's Halo and was cemented with Halo 2. But why own a Xbox if you don't own these games? Most of them are on the PS2 anyway. Apart from those, the making game was Devil may cry (as well as DOA, MGS2 And FFX making it the console with the most critically acclaimed games other than PC but that doesn't count) and the cementing game was, well in my opinion God of war, even though it had sequels to almost every game that came out on it.

WINNER: PS2.

NOWGEN era

Now the console wars is heating up and the cementing games are yet to come so now let is see the games making the consoles today.

The Xbox 360 had Elder scrolls oblivion, but when the PS3 came out it went out of favor because it was not an exclusive. The true making games where bioshock and Halo 3(and Blue Dragon in japan), both critical and commercial successes. The PS3 has been unlucky, the only makers I am expecting are MGS4 and FF 13(it was originally lair, but it sucked). As for the Wii, I think it has already won. It has out sold the Xbox and PS3 combined and already has Twilight princess as its making game. The cementing game may be smash bros brawl, but who knows, what sleeper hits may arise this Christmas, after all, the war is just beginning..