
Correspondingly, an endless swirl of "Which console is right for you?" articles followed. The release of the PS5 in 2020 represented the 4th round of console wars between Sony and Microsoft.

Through hardware differences or exclusivity rights for games, Sony and Microsoft have been each other's healthy competition for more than two decades. To differentiate their products, both companies engage in a constant arms race. Since then, generation by generation, Sony and Microsoft have released comparable consoles.

However, a new challenger, Microsoft, reiterated a new console war when they released the Xbox in 2001. In a way, the success of the PlayStation, and the overwhelming success of the PlayStation 2, ended the original console war between Sega and Nintendo.
