It would be boring without Microsoft on console market.

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Griffin said:

Shadowblind said:

Lafiel said:
there would be more jrpgs on my PS3 if MS wasn't in the market, so I can't say I'm very fond of them joining - still I'm not bitter enough to ignore, that the 360 is a very fine machine at a nice price and with a lot of quality softwar

They wouldn't be in HD yet,

 

The PS2 had HD games, so i'm pretty sure this gen would of had them too.

 

If by HD games, you mean they output in a 16:9 ratio then I guess you are correct, but I think that is an extremely liberal defintion of HD.  I think the highest resolution the PS2 supported was 480p and that is not considered to be HD, but rather ED (extended definition).  I would be interested to know which (if any) games output in 720p, much less 1080i or 1080p.

To the op, I think that competition between the 3 companies is key to driving innovation in the industry, and while I agree that it sometimes sucks to have to buy 3 different consoles to get all the best games, I think the tradeoff is well worth it.