During the last generation of gaming, eSports took off in a huge way. At the end of the previous generation Halo 2 was setting the scene for the next generation with the MLG hosting tournaments with around $250,000 prize funds. This lead the way for Halo 3 to take a hold of the scene and keep the Xbox as the console for competitive FPS games. Due to this companies started to support fighting games primarily the Xbox as well as sports titles such as FIFA and Madden, simply due to costs. They had to have an Xbox for Halo, so it seemed daft to purchase a new console for a cross platform game. By the end of the generation though Call of Duty had taken over as the main title and was a cross platform game.
