{"id":664909,"date":"2026-04-02T21:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/xbox-exec-talks-console-wars"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:30:15","slug":"xbox-encouraged-the-console-wars-for-some-healthy-competition-says-former-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/xbox-encouraged-the-console-wars-for-some-healthy-competition-says-former-exec\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox &#8220;encouraged the console wars&#8221; for some healthy competition, says former exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/xbox-encouraged-the-console-wars-for-some-healthy-competition-says-former-exec.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>The console wars hit their peak during the <strong>PS3<\/strong> and <strong>Xbox 360<\/strong> era, and a former Xbox executive has recently explained why the company encouraged it.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who lived through the PS3 and Xbox 360 era of pointlessly arguing which console was better know that discussions could sometimes get unnecessarily heated. But former Xbox executive Peter Moore, who helped oversee the company in that era, recently touched on how he &#8220;encouraged the console wars,&#8221; as a way to elicit some healthy competition in his team (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/former-xbox-exec-explains-why-microsoft-encouraged-the-console-war\/1100-6506010\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\">GameSpot<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We encouraged the console wars, not to create division, but to challenge each other, and when I say each other I mean <strong>Microsoft<\/strong> and <strong>Sony<\/strong>,&#8221; said Moore on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bWMfyxVfKl8\">Front Office Sports podcast<\/a>. &#8220;If Microsoft hadn&#8217;t stuck the course after the Xbox, after the red rings of death, gaming would be a poorer place for it, you wouldn&#8217;t have the competition you have today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/xbox-exec-talks-console-wars\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/xbox-exec-talks-console-wars\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The console wars hit their peak during the PS3 and Xbox 360 era, and a former Xbox executive has recently explained why the company encouraged it. Those of us who lived through the PS3 and Xbox 360 era of pointlessly arguing which console was better know that discussions could sometimes get unnecessarily heated. But former Xbox executive Peter Moore, who helped oversee the company in that era, recently touched on how he &#8220;encouraged the console wars,&#8221; as a way to elicit some healthy competition in his team (thanks, GameSpot). &#8220;We encouraged the console wars, not to create division, but to challenge each other, and when I say each other I mean Microsoft and Sony,&#8221; said Moore on the Front Office Sports podcast. &#8220;If Microsoft hadn&#8217;t&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/xbox-encouraged-the-console-wars-for-some-healthy-competition-says-former-exec\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":664910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[134,60,4616],"class_list":["post-664909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-microsoft","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Xbox &quot;encouraged the console wars&quot; 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