I really like the idea of having a huge company love fest and MS/Sony/Nintendo/Sega/Namco/insert major company here starting a joint venture to make a super console. Then they could split the royalties equally amongst all and everyone would be happy. Then they could license out their superconsole, much in the way Panasonic, Sony, Sharp, Generic Company X makes DVD players or VCRs or whatnot. One bad thing about the idea is that the joint venture might get lazy and not come up with hardware updates for a long time. Since its the only game in town (no pun intended), there isn't a huge incentive to move on to the next generation. I personally wouldn't mind sticking to the same system for 10 years.. heck I still play SNES Roms - ERRRRRRRRRR - I mean... SNES games that I legally own and of which I've backed up just in case anything happens to the cartridge.... For now, we have competition, and that is ok too, since each company will try to out-do each other and the people benefit by having high quality games. (provided they have the money to buy every console) My prediction will have a winner of the console wars but the winner will not feel like it won. Provided that Blu Ray wins out (which is still to be seen), then I can possibly see Sony at 35-40% and MS and Nintendo splitting the rest of the market at ~30% each. But It wouldn't surprise me if MS or Nintendo ended up being the winner also. ::EDIT:: and props to the guy with the chu chu rocket avatar! I miss my dreamcast! oh wait, nevermind, i still own and play it. i'm a sega fanboy at heart :-p
