thranx said:
Look at all the great deals we have gotten from having three viable console makers. Would they have sold the ps3 at a loss if MS and Nintendo weren't there. How much more would live cost with out competition etc. With only one console maker it would remove that kind of competiton, and would probably slow advances as again there would be less competition. |
Both Sony and Microsoft sold their consoles at a loss, which is pretty silly if you ask me. I would imagine that a console built this way would be fairly priced at launch and sold at a profit from the beginning. If they hadn't sold their consoles at a loss, the consoles would have been way too expensive, and they would have been punished by the market.
And here, there would be even more competition in the online space, so Microsoft could be forced to lower the price of Live.
Again, the internal hardware in the console is the only place we would see reduced competition (but companies could still tweak it, like add a better wireless solution or a blu-ray drive), but every other area would have increased competition. It's a small sacrifice compared to what can be gained as far as I can tell.
