There’s nothing more toxic in the world of video games than the console war. Fans of a particular console company—and the games that they release—will almost always die on their own hill. It’s a long-term battle, that hasn't stopped burning since the launch of the competitors Xbox (original) back in 2001.

Prior to the launch of the Xbox, PlayStation fans ruled the world. The PlayStation (1) came to the home console market in 1995, more than half-a-decade before Microsoft entered the race. It was a simpler time. A time where Nintendo even had a leading horse in “The Console Race” with their Nintendo 64.

Since, it has been a war between Microsoft’s Xbox line, and Sony’s PlayStation line-up. There was a time, when the Xbox was a formidable opponent.

Competition is the biggest ingredient in success. In every industry. So when PlayStation finally had a comparable rival, they had to step up their game and cease relying purely on being the “console for serious gamers” which had served them well when their only competition was Nintendo. PlayStation has since been superior than the Xbox, but it owes a lot of that success to the existence of the Xbox.

Here are 25 memes that have crossed our desk that prove without a doubt that Sony’s PlayStation is a better console than Microsoft’s Xbox. The comparisons span a few generation, so you’re in for a nostalgia trip as well as a comedic journey through he annals of this great console war.

25 THIS SOUND (Admit It, You Heard It In Your Head)

The GameCube might come close, but nothing sets off a gamer's "nostalgia buzz" like the boot-up chime of the original PlayStation console. Whether it was kicking on the power to drive a Le Mans race in Gran Turismo or ready to collect a few more crystals in Crash, you just knew it's on when you heard it. Chances are, you've heard the sound in your head just now, looking at this meme.

Does the Xbox have a delightful boot-up noise? Absolutely not.

It was a nefarious-sounding scientific lab like cluster of noises, only pleasing us when it was over. But if you were to blindfold any gamer from the 90s and play the sound that accompanies the “Sony Computer Entertainment” logo during the PS1 boot-sequence, I would wager that nearly 100% of them would recognize it. It’s delightful.

24 The Last Of Us

This monster of a meme is both a humble brag about the cut-scene fidelity in Naughty Dog's The Last of Us, but also a jab at Xbox fans because there's no such title on their chosen console, and the story-driven adventure is one of the greatest games to hit shelves in the last twenty years. The Last Of Us, and its very anticipated sequel, came out of left field for gamers back in 2013 when the first title in the series was launched on the PS3—later remastered for PS4. Naughty Dog had previously developed the family friendly franchise Crash Bandicoot (who was PlayStation’s leading Mascot in the 90’s) and the insanely over-the-top Tomb Raider inspired Uncharted franchise, starring a salty Nathan Drake, and dozens of shooting gallery set-pieces. The Last Of Us was personal. It was (is) a dark story, based in the post-apocalypse.

23 HALO Really Isn't That Great

There is no question that Halo matters. Or at least it did, a short time ago. It helped usher in a blockbuster game-type: the First-Person Shooter. But, HALO isn't the emotional journey that fans claim it to be. Master Chief—a superhuman soldier—became the least likeable hero in gaming history and his “struggles” were so inconsequential that it is difficult for anyone with an IQ more than a baked-potato to relate to the man in the armor.

The only reason gamers have their heartstrings tied to the franchise, or the characters at all, is familiarity.

The characters are shallow. Plot points are predictable. Even the universe they've created isn't very tight. Playstation fans are all too aware of the "merits" that Xbox fans claim Halo has.

22 PlayStation / Sony Uses Conceivable Naming Conventions

The Japanese manufacturer behind the most successful gaming platform of all-time knows how to count. In order. It's phenomenal. While there is a lot of room for improvement when it comes to their naming conventions in the mobile-console department, Sony has kept with the simple, in order, numbering system with their home consoles. Even the mid-gen system redesigns are not difficult to follow. The original Playstation had the slimmed down PlayStation ONE, the PS2 and PS3 had the “Slim” versions, and the PS4 has a Slim, and now a PRO. There’s no confusion with those titles at all. Nothing has ever been announced, or teased, regarding their next console, but you can bet that it'll have a "5" in the title, with a slim version a year later.

21 Xbox DOES NOT

Wait. What? The original Xbox was going to be called the "Direct Xbox" because the team that pitched the idea of getting Microsoft into the console race was the internal Direct-X team.

Luckily they decided on just "Xbox" but it has all gone downhill from there. Case in point ... this meme.

This delightfully Dr. Seuss-ian One Xbox One X Box is a cluster of nonsense, and while the meme might be the source of a very good laugh, it also brings up many questions. Most felt like Microsoft was on the right track with the Xbox 360 naming convention. You could have easily gone to 720, or 900, or 1080. But they released the Xbox One instead—claiming that the “ONE” was to symbolize that it was the one device you needed in your home for all of your entertainment needs.

20 Xbox Lives In Their Past

Halo, Gears of War, Fable, and Crackdown have opened a lot of doors for the Microsoft console, but they've got to let them go eventually. Still, in 2017, they're riding the no-longer-living hype train of past successes. Halo is rehashed. Gears of War 4 mostly flopped. Microsoft shut-down Fable creators Lionhead Studios. Crackdown 3 was announced at Microsoft’s Press Conference at E3 in 2015 (YES, 3 years ago) but has ghosted us since. Last year, nothing new was shown but the developer did announce that they were pushing the game’s release date back to 2018. At this stage, we’ve seen very little, and if nothing is shown at E3 this year that inspired confidence in the Crackdown fandom, the game very well might flop upon release (if it ever comes out).

19 PlayStation's Sleek Console Design Puts The Tanks From Microsoft To Shame

North America has only just realized that Japanese designers are at the top of their game. We've seen home-product stores like Muji, and Miniso both arrive in the past 12 months. When Japanese designers seek out a product to invent, it is nearly always their intent to make it clear, with utmost purpose, and without flash. Especially if this is something that is going to be in people’s living rooms. Often—as we’re used to hearing from and seeing the American arm of Sony—we forget that the console manufacturer, and publisher is a Japanese born and bred business.

America, however, is still stuck in this "bigger is better" mentality that has been producing hideous console designs since the debut of the Xbox in 2001.

Though, Microsoft is getting closer, with the newly launched Xbox One X.

18 Original IPs On Xbox? Naaaaah.

Scalebound was a bright light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel. A tunnel that housed the haunting voices of repetitive and rehearsed games from the past decade. It looked different, a little weird, and it was coming to a console that is known for not taking risks. It was too good to be true. Originally revealed to the Xbox fanbase in 2014 (with a teaser trailer), the world grew anticipation with gameplay shown in 2015, but was ultimately cancelled outright in January of 2017.

PlayStation, however, has created a dynasty on the shoulders of the interesting and weird.

Persona 5 (a PlayStation exclusive, and a front-runner in 2017 Game of the Year talks) is all those things, plus the decidedly beautiful polish of a game studio such as Atlus.

17 Xbox Will Just Milk Franchises To Death Instead

Instead of franchises that push themselves beyond their own limitations—like the aforementioned Persona—Xbox exclusives have a sullied "rinse & repeat" formula that has ensured that their fans grow weary. In 16 years, Microsoft has released 13 Halo titles. THIRTEEN! The Gears of War franchise has seen 5 titles since the first was launched in 2006 for the original Xbox. But the Gears franchise rests its success on the shoulders of an interestingly new way/feel of the third-person shooter gameplay. Never breaking great ground with their storytelling, and including some of the flattest characters in video game history.

Find some originality folks!

On the other side of the coin, it has been long rumored that the PlayStation HQ has a specific boardroom where "weird s**t" is gleefully pitched, daily.

16 Two Words: UNCHARTED RACING

Yeah, okay, we got Uncharted 4 and Lost Legacy instead of a kart-racing game. But we can still dream right?! This glorious timeline meme shows that PlayStation has a history of taking adventure games and turning them into kart-racers. Crash Bandicoot got Crash Team Racing (one of the only kart racing games to challenge the popularity of Mario Kart from Nintendo), along with Jak X: Combat Racing, which was a more serious tilt on the kart racing genre staring the company’s newest platforming hero Jak (from Jak and Daxter). PlayStation is known for taking weird risks with their established IPs. They just put Crash Bandicoot in a Spyro toys-to-life game! That's weird. So while we wait for UnCARTed (no? ... I thought it was good), let's just boot up CTR and relive the glory.

15 ROCK Beats SCISSORS

Let's face it; PlayStation doesn't get stiff competition from a ROCK. So this meme, showing that the Xbox is clearly losing this battle, is a wondrous thing indeed.

Can your Xbox One function properly offline? No.

Can you trade things (or it) with your friends? No. Can you play it without the hideous Kinect Camera connected? No—though you can now, after much backlash from the Xbox faithful. But what it does have over the ancient rock is the forced inclusion of Microsoft’s search engine Bing, and their proudly hated internet browser, Internet Explorer. Now, get off your high horse and meet me near the beach where we can play with our offline-exclusive rocks, and fawn over the day that we can do the same with our Xbox consoles.

14 Launch & Price

When it came time for the newest generation of consoles, we were all glued to our screens waiting for the unveiling at each company's respective E3 press-conference (where things are announced / revealed every year.) What no one expected after Microsoft revealed their brand-new console at a fair price, with great specs, was Sony going on-stage the very next day, and undercutting every selling point of their counterparts product. Price, specs, and launch titles, they were all superior. I remember leaving that PlayStation conference in complete shock. So many times prior (when new consoles were revealed) PlayStation fans had to rely solely on the idea that the PlayStation console was superior in tech, and nothing more. But this time around, they put their foot down and outdid Microsoft completely. It shook the Xbox launch, and it's still clear that they've been playing from behind since.

13 Playstation Network Functions More Often Than Not

There was a tiny snafu a few years back with a hacker group attack on PlayStation Network accounts. But in an overall comparison between the online functions of both consoles, Xbox Live pales in comparison to the trusty and reliable PSN. It's also cheaper, at $50 a year versus Xbox Live’s $60 annual price-tag. Both online subscriptions come with free titles monthly, and the "free games as gifts" are always far superior for PlayStation Plus subscribers.

The Xbox faithful normally get games more than 5 years old, that no one wanted to play when they were initially released.

PlayStation Network subscribers have always been gifted at least one title per month that is worthy of the price alone. PSN also started the trend of giving subscribers discounts on their online shop, including new release titles with a bit of money shaved-off, to inspire purchase.

12 PlayStation Owners USE Their Console

*grabs compressed air* It's no secret that the majority of Xbox owners also own another console, whether it be for the other console’s exclusive titles, or in order to play with friends that don’t have an Xbox. I know that I cannot think of a single friend that owns ONLY an Xbox. Which means that a lot of time grows between play-sessions on their Xbox. Show me an Xbox that isn't a $400 dust collector, and I'll show you a PlayStation in pristine condition, because the PlayStation faithful are just that, extremely faithful. Meaning that those in the Sony corner, are far less likely to use, or even own another console. It is also rare that those who play the majority of their console gaming on Sony’s system aren’t trophy-hunting obsessed. It’s hard to collect those platinum trophies, if you’re booting up other consoles.

11 Microsoft Doesn't Know How To Treat Their Customers Or Core Audience

Yes, the world post-internet has given us a lot of things. We're very fortunate. But nothing, I repeat NOTHING, should ever be online only (I'm also looking at you mobile game devs ... don't do it!). It’s a treat to get software updates, or in the case of some consoles (like the Nintendo Switch), it’s extremely pleasing to never have to buy a physical game, wasting all of that time switching cartridges or discs.

Then, to add insult to injury, Xbox's then-President stated that those fans looking for an offline experience should buy their last-generation console.

It’s an extreme faux pas to insult your consumers by informing them that if they do not like some of the restrictions on their newest and coolest tech, that they should essentially stay in the past. People want the new hotness.

10 AND They Have A Very Poor Product Focus

In a race that they were losing, Microsoft took their pitch-deck for their home gaming console in a new direction. With the launch of the Xbox One, they based their announcement around the idea that the new console will be the all-encompassing entertainment system, and not just a gaming machine. No one asked for this.

No one, prior to this announcement, complained that they would have to change tv inputs to go from gaming, to television viewing.

Perhaps if your developers and designers spent more time spit-balling neat ideas for new and fresh video games, you wouldn't have put out a console that people only use to control their cable and tv with voice commands. If you log onto your Xbox right now, how many people on your friends list are playing an actual video game? Mine? Mostly Netflix.

9 PlayStation Gets Awesome / Weird Japanese Games

Harping back to the weird, and the eastern-made, PlayStation is a North American's dream for the funky styling of Japan's best Role Playing Game developers. JRPGs are far more fascinating than the majority of western RPGs. Persona, Kingdom Hearts, etc. etc. the list of offbeat and amazing titles on PlayStation platforms is huge. The weirdest, and riskiest title ever released on an Xbox console is arguably 2015’s D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die, and it was so horrifically received commercially, that they didn’t even finish releasing the chapters, and the studio’s Director Hidetaka Suehiro left the company shortly after. It’s not difficult to see that the Xbox is a western console. A sales chart released in 2017 showed that the PlayStation 4 held 56% of the market share in Japan, while the Xbox owned just 1%.

8 PS VR - Bringing The Family Together

VR is a burgeoning technology. It will eventually become something everyone (that can) will use to enjoy games, or entertainment. One of the things currently holding VR adoption back, is the PC requirements and complexity of running one on your gaming rig. PC Gaming is a tricky lifespan in general, with new parts and specs released almost weekly, it takes a lot of patience, and funds to upkeep a top-of-the-line gaming PC. But Playstation announced, and released, the PSVR in '16 to critical acclaim. The best thing about it? The PS4.

It was now simple, and effortless to play video games in VR because most people already owned the console you need to play it on!

Also - Resident Evil has made a triumphant comeback after some soft titles in the recent years, thanks to PSVR.

7 PlayStation Owners Are Willing To Control Their Consoles Themselves

Gamers can be lazy. It comes with the stereotype. But if you ignore all of the fitness applications, and dancing games, it’s a fair tag to put on most gamers. At least while they play games. There’s lots of sitting still and even more ignoring the outside world—gotta stay sharp for those camping cowards. So when Microsoft announced that you would be able to control certain things via the Kinect camera microphone, people took notice, and advantage.

Simple commands like turning your console on or off became hilariously trivial, because let’s face it, the Kinect microphone sucks.

Just get up and turn your console off. Or use the damn controller like you've been doing for the past 30+ years. We get it. You only use your Xbox for the cable voice commands. But you sound like an idiot and look like a lazy turtle, stuck on your back.

6 4 > 1

In the wise words of the great prophet Big Shaq - "two plus two is four, minus one is 3. Quick Maths." And it's truly that simple. The number 4 is greater than the number 1, unless you're playing golf, which we're not. And let's not even get into the conversation that this is technically the third Xbox console, but they've reverted to the name "One" for some odd reason. Even more pretentious, Microsoft named it the Xbox One, and not the Xbox 1.

At this stage, I can’t imagine what the next (if there is a “next”) console from Microsoft is going to be called.

Do they go beyond the “0” and head into the negatives? To they pretend like it’s time to start counting in order and name it the Xbox Two? Who knows.