Next generation of console

[68soul]

Well, as more and more devs are thinkin' about this, why not imagine one console only?

Just to give you an idea: the online facilities and the easy programmation of the 360, without the RROD + the potential power of the PS3, without the huge price and the complex architecture + the innovation, reliability and price of Nintendo's hardware + all the devs on board from start to finish in every genre you may imagine + a virtual console including all the games ever created on any console = ... gamer's paradise !

I don't imagine the three companies together, too difficult... but who knows, two, it may happen... most likely a Microsoft-Nintendo partnership, or a more logical Sony-Nintendo japanese partnership... with the third one out in both options...

Or the Sony game division, bought by (a then very very rich) Nintendo? Or Nintendo, bought by (a then still very very rich) Microsoft?

Don't like the latest option, don't like it at all, but who knows?

All i know is that there's no room for three different consoles... two, maybe... but three means one or two will always have difficulties, while 3rd parties will never be sure to invest the right way in future games development... and will always have to learn how to do it the best they can, in three totally different ways...

And us gamers, will have to spend $1500+ in hardware only, just to be able to play "all" the games we could like... if we still got enough money left...

Btw, this is pure speculation, and just my two cents: i don't want to shock any of the fanboys out there, so don't flame me, right? :)