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

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mchaza said:

Squilliam said:

If the online networks cannot work together then at some point one console will probably take a considerable (>50%) lead and then have a near permament control over the the market and monopolise it. If they cannot work together on networking then there can be only one. Where you have interoperatability you have a competitive market and where you don't you get a monopoly.

The market will move towards one standard whether people want it or not. If we don't get multiple hardware / single network standard then we will get one hardware standard / one network.

this generation proved that doesn't happen, how come Sony don't have monopolised the market with the PS3 despite PS2 having around 80% of all consoles. 

Because the ps2 did not dominate the online console scene. Now that I know my xbox live stats, history and gamerscore etc will carry over into the next gen and so on I am more likely to stay with it. Its familiar, and I will have my friends on it already.