Mr Khan on 24 April 2009
The industry has generally only had room for 3 competitors to make a living. Any time the number has gone above 3, the consoles that did worse than that were ruinous for their companies in some way or other. Like the 2nd generation, with the Fairchild and the Oddyssey 2 getting pwned by 2600, Colecovision, and Intellivision, the 4th generation, with the also-ran Neo Geo (though one could argue what SNK's goals were, considering the type of product it was), the 5th generation with the now-forgotten 3DO and Jaguar, or the 6th generation with the Sega-bankrupting Dreamcast
Thus, i don't think Sony or Microsoft will get forced out unless another player comes in who is strong enough to do so.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
