I would say that the destination the console market is heading to, which may be both an inevitable and scary for some people is the single console standard. Perhaps Sony thought they had become the standard and they let their hubris take over.
The path has been laid out, the industry needs stability. It cannot continue to die off every 6 years as a new generation takes off, its not a sustaining system and its not a path for growth and stability. Either one console manufacturer will take over or it will follow the mobile phone market path of deversified manufacturing. One things almost certain, there are no successful mobile phone manufacturers who own networks and perhaps the conflict of interest between 1st and third party development is hindering growth.
Tease.
