Why it DOES matter whether there are two consoles or three

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I just would like to mention something. If it wasn't for the 360 you probably wouldn't see as many hardware sales on the HD consoles as you do now. While it won't be too drastic, and the ps3 would probably make up for the sales, there probably would be a great number who would also go to the Wii, or just PC gaming. This means there is far less of a motive to put these 3rd party games on the PS3 and more of one to put them on the Wii, because the wii would probably be well of 50% marketshare, and one of the biggest reasons why big budget games don't go to the Wii are because the 360 and PS3 together usually produce equal to more software sales than the wii alone in terms of 3rd party core games. Without the 360 there would be far less. That means alot of high budget sequels would go to the wii, and sony would probably not even had a motive anymore to lower the price of the ps3 probably causing even less hardware sales for the ps3 and even more for the wii. So I think the 360 is a major benefit to PS3 gamers because if it wasn't around the ps3 probably would have much less 3rd party support than it does now. I do agree with you though, but I wanted to put the situation more into a ps3 gamers perspective on what would happen if microsoft wasn't in the market or if the console was alot different from the ps3 where direct ports on both consoles wouldn't work. It would benefit people who prefer the Wii though like me.