Year In Review: 2025 Is The Year The Console Wars Ended

For a long time, the PlayStation 3 lacked the compelling, unique games that the Xbox 360 consistently delivered – titles like Halo, Gears of War, and Forza. Eventually, PlayStation turned things around with a string of popular exclusives, and this momentum continued with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The trend has persisted with the current generation of consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and it’s now clear that Microsoft has conceded defeat in the competition for console dominance.
![The CT25 NNLO fit demonstrates that uncertainties in [latex]\alpha_{s}(M_{Z})[/latex] are modulated by the credibility level applied to both global and dynamical tolerance criteria, with the dynamic tolerance error band computed across a dataset of 49 published results establishing a quantifiable range for this sensitivity.](https://arxiv.org/html/2512.23792v1/x8.png)







