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NJ5 said:

I'm quite surprised that some people believe the industry could live without Nintendo's platforms.

PS3/360 development costs are substantially bigger than those of the last generation, while the gaming audience didn't increase that much. There is no way the industry could sustain itself at its current size with those platforms only.

Sony/MS's moneyhats mask this situation a bit by making those platforms seem more viable than they are, but the situation is still quite visible.

 

your basing your opinion on this generation alone though. what if nintendo left in the generation before this, or the one before that? or the one after this? would it have been so bad then?