User blog comment:Agent M/The Gravy Inquirer Issue 1/@comment-224939-20100814134645/@comment-1781822-20101017194736

Actually, I think it was the way the Kid Jr. described it, but it was the other way around. Playstation was developing sound stuff, and thought that CD-based games would be better than the cartridges, but there were complications, like scratching, skipping, etc.

Then Playstation split off from Nintendo and made a bigger name for itself.

Then, Microsoft said, "Hey, let's just copy everyone else!" And out came the XBOX, which was a bit worse than the PS and the Nintendo 64 (or whatever the current one at the time was, so sue me, I'm not a historian).

A very long time later, in the present, the PS3 came out, along with the Nintendo Wii and the XBOX 360. These 7-generation consoles looked pretty even, 'till people found out the system failure rates on them, which I think were like:

PS3: Around 15% Wii: About 7% XBOX 360: A whopping 40%

Then after that, Playstation made the slimline PS3, which was 40% better than the old one in most ways. Soon after doing so, they took the old one out of production.

Then, the XBOX 360 was hit with a problem in it's algorithm that failed to correctly tell the date, and all the XBOX 360's ended up in 1999 (metaphorically, of course).

Now, in the present present, Playstation has swooped in and ripped off the Nintendo Wii, with it's "Playstation Move". It is still unknown what the future brings for gaming.

And that concludes the special, "A brief History of : Playstation, Nintendo, and XBOX", hosted by, yours truly, Agent M.