What company will the gaming world be better without?

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OriGin said:

Personally I would LOVE for it to return to the glory days of Sega VS Nintendo. 8 and 16 bit days were the bomb fizzle. 

I'm with you on this one. Simply because I miss the days were consoles were designed, used and competed for GAMING. 

Today companies want to create multi-media swiss army knives with the consoles, of which most features do not amplify gaming as a whole.

PS3 in particular for me feels like Sony is demanding that gamers till the ground for mass multi-media support which has virtually nothing to do with gaming. One can argue the same was done with PS2 in regards to DVD, but the major difference is that there was already a demand for DVD.

I fear for gaming as a whole when companies will make it a continued trend to thrust new, and unnecessary, technologies on gamers. 

If consoles simply become the under-laborers for giant companies to attempt to use a leverage for their other multimedia desires and attempts on obtaining other markets, I'll soon take my hat out of contention as a whole.

This coming from a guy who has been playing since the Atari 2600 days.