I thank them for keeping the PS3 alive. If the 360 hadn't existed the wii would absolutely have dominated this gen, and the PS3 would likely be dead in the water. Without the 360, the PS3 at a launch price of 600$ would seem over powered rather than the wii seeming underpowered. Multiplat games make HD gaming profitable, where as if the PS3 was the sole HD system launching a year or so after the 360, and had the ridiculously poor start, the install base for HD gaming would be so tiny that HD gaming simply couldn't have been a profitable proposition.
The wii would look like the logical next step in gaming, rather than a sidestep in gaming, and the PS3 would look like an extremely expensive, techno-swiss army knife.
Sony should thank Microsoft for keeping them alive this gen. Without the 360, the yin to the PS3s yang, the PS3 would've been dead in the water.
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