| leatherhat said: If we had universal consoles we wouldn't have motion control or blu-ray or optic media and no one would attempt to make any great innovations in the hardware space. Not that those examples, besides optic media, are particularly great new things but they are examples of what happens when hardware companies compete. Take that away and they have no incentive to do anything new, or to make first party games. |
See, I don't think we would see great innovations in the hardware anyway. Optic media would definitely have come along anyway, and if, for example, this generation had been as I described with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo playing with the same hardware, nothing is to stop Nintendo from releasing their console with the Wiimote and Wii Sports and steal all the spotlight. There would still be enough competition in the gaming space, although more so in the software and online services than anything else. 
