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Flashgitz turns the console wars into a medieval bloodbath, and Xbox draws the short straw.

The animation duo behind YouTube’s foulest gaming satire dropped a new entry in their long-running Console Wars series in July 2019, and this time the target is Microsoft. “Console Wars – End of Xbox One?” reimagines the industry’s hardware rivalry as an over-the-top, gore-soaked medieval siege, with an Xbox One X desperately trying to hold a crumbling empire together while PlayStation and Nintendo close in for the kill.

• Flashgitz — the duo of Tom Hinchliffe and Don Greger — released “Console Wars – End of Xbox One?” on both YouTube and Newgrounds in July 2019.
• The short casts the PlayStation faction as sneaky infiltrators and the Nintendo Switch collective as an aggressive, war-like horde overrunning a besieged Xbox empire, staged against the backdrop of E3.
• The animation packs in satirical nods to Banjo-Kazooie, PUBG, Splatoon, and The Legend of Zelda as running gags throughout the battlefield chaos.

Flashgitz’s Running Gag on the Industry

Console Wars has been Flashgitz’s go-to format for years: take the actual, real console rivalry chatter that gaming fans argue about online and stage it as a violent, blood-drenched war epic complete with beheadings, betrayals, and absurd one-liners. The joke has always worked because it exaggerates something gamers already believe — that Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo are essentially warring kingdoms — and just pushes it to its most literal, grotesque conclusion. This entry keeps that formula intact, but narrows its focus almost entirely onto Xbox’s declining position heading into E3.

Xbox One X’s Last Stand

The short’s central thread follows an Xbox One X trying to defend territory it’s steadily losing, facing betrayal from within and being ground down by shifting alliances outside. It’s not subtle: Flashgitz frames Xbox’s real-world struggles with console market share and its comparatively thin exclusive lineup not as a marketing footnote but as a losing battlefield campaign, where every overture Xbox makes gets rebuffed or overrun.

An embattled Xbox One X struggles desperately to defend a crumbling empire while facing betrayal, defeat, and shifting alliances.

That’s the tragicomic engine of the whole video — Xbox isn’t drawn as an evil empire so much as a fading one, outmaneuvered on every front. Viewers who’ve followed the console market’s last few years of exclusive-game debates and hardware comparisons will recognize exactly which real headlines are being lampooned scene by scene.

The Cameos Doing the Heavy Lifting

Flashgitz loads the short with property-specific gags rather than generic gaming references. Banjo-Kazooie shows up as a nod to the Microsoft-Nintendo crossover chatter swirling around that era, while PUBG and Splatoon get folded in as stand-ins for the battle royale and Nintendo-exclusive shooter crazes respectively. The Legend of Zelda appears as one of the sharper jabs at Nintendo’s exclusive firepower — the kind of title Xbox simply doesn’t have an answer for in the joke’s own logic.

Xbox Joke Resonates With Audience

Part of what makes the bit sting is that it’s not punching at nothing. Anyone following Microsoft’s hardware push, its exclusive-game output, or the broader console conversation covered in outlets like The Truth About Xbox Series X knows the real anxieties Flashgitz is exaggerating for laughs. The same goes for the historical framing — anyone who’s tracked which brands have actually dominated hardware sales over the decades, as laid out in Brands With Best-Selling Video Game Consoles 1972 – 2019, will recognize exactly which real trend line the short is mocking with its crumbling-empire imagery.

Flashgitz didn’t invent the “Xbox is losing” narrative — they just staged it as a massacre. And that’s the joke: an Xbox One X getting cut down on a medieval battlefield while Banjo-Kazooie and a horde of Splatoon Inklings watch it happen is funnier, and somehow more honest about the mood at the time, than any actual sales chart could be.