What is holding gaming back? (my vision for the future of gaming)

[leatherhat]

Squilliam said:

leatherhat said:

Squilliam said:

It makes a lot of sense from the perspective of improving the overall market however in the current console climate it is implausible. However there is one hope. If any two console manufacturers were to unify their online system ala PSN on Wii and PS3 or Live on Xbox 360 and Wii etc or their next generation equivalents they would achieve a massive competitive advantage. So whilst it makes sense from a logical perspective in may not happen in reality.

The most likely unification scenarios are probably:

Xbox Live and Wii

Steam and Wii

PSN and Wii

Though I don't favour any particular one as being more likely over any other. I suspect that Steam has the advantage due to not already having a conflict of interest against the current console space.

 

I would say steam and PS3 are most likely since steam cloud and whatnot are coming with portal 2

This is just a one off cooperation, in most likelihood Sony had to allow Valve to put Steam cloud on PSN before they would release their games on that platform. Overall Sony would probably hate it if everyone who bought a PS3 game had a copy on Steam by default because it could drag people away from their console.

A one off cooperation still puts it closer to unification then any of your examples