Consoles are closed off monopolistic piles of BS, there should be only one.

[Squilliam]

Slimebeast said:
I didnt think u'd have this awkward opinion Squilliam, even if some of your argumentation makes sense (BTW, funny how your OP post reminded me of Rock_on_2008's 'state of the nation declarations'... heh, I miss those).

No, I don't think "there will be only one winning format in the end" as you say.

The console market is huge. I estimate 270 million consoles sold in this gen, split between 3 manufacturors. There's plenty of living room for three market actors for years to come.

Im an opinion whore, I make threads because I think the discussion might be funny or interesting or whatever. Furthermore there is plenty of market share to go around, but the market itself is changing. As online becomes more important, not in the content delivery sense, but in the connectivity sense theres a greater need for people to be able to connect and play games with each other. Its completely impractical for myself to play online games on both the PS3 and Xbox 360 and maintain a friends list on both consoles. Once a big enough bloc of people are inline with one console the rest of the offline market would fall in line behind that market share. This is probably Nintendos biggest weakness at present.