if PS3 offered both motion sensing, and great online gameplay at a lower price, with full implementation Of course there was no chance of that happening with the approach Sony took to creating PS3. I don't know about your general thesis though... I mean... Nintendo Thesis: Bring all major genres into 3D, 2D is passe. Sony Thesis: Make games as appealing as possible - whether 2D or 3D Synthesis: Make most games 3D, and appealing - don't kill 2D I mean, that's not really what that generation had to do with. 2D moved almost entirely to handheld systems, and the emergence of 3D was a technological matter, not really dueling philosophies from Nintendo and Sony.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
