super_etecoon on 26 July 2007
I truly believe that people want an experience that they feel speaks to them. This is why Xbox was able to enter the market last gen. Xbox appealed to the gamers taht are hardcore (not hardcore gamers). Xbox was a system that you wouldn't have to feel embarassed about playing. I think as long as companies know how to cater their image to the individual (a theoretical oxymoron of course) there will be multiple companies.
Something else to consider about monopolies and consoles.
No console maker has ever won three successive generations. Nintendo (if they are up) will fall. This I guarantee. Maybe not this generation, maybe not next. But the next next.
