leatherhat said:
Rainbird said:
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.
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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. 
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Except for the fact that since the consoles are universal you could easily play wiisports on sony or MS platform. There would be no exclusives, no benefit in creating anything. Not even including the fact that the wiimote probably wouldn't have come to pass since sony and MS would have shot it down.
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The console is universal, the controller is not. The hardware manufacturers can create whatever controller they like, and it becomes the job of the developers to support these. The three main controllers might be mandatory to support in a game.
So with Wii Sports, it would sell buttloads with Nintendo's hardware and controllers, but if you didn't buy a Nintendo console, you can just buy a Wiimote and Wii Sports and you're still good to go on your Sony console.
