Sony & Microsoft to be allies in next console war?

[TadpoleJackson]

SvennoJ said:

TadpoleJackson said:
I long for the day that consoles are like DVD players where I don't have to worry about if a DVD plays or not. Just buy the system and have access to all games.

It sounds good but

There would be no more reason to start the gen with a loss leading high tech console to get marketshare. Blu-ray players started at $1200, for a long time the very expensive ps3 was the cheapest blu-ray player.

1st party games will slowly disappear. We already have a system like this, the pc. How much effort is MS putting into pc games nowadays? Does Sony even have any pc games?

Sony has movie studios. It seems like they make most of their money with media now and days. So I don;t see they dropping their first parties. MS still releases the occasional PC game; Fable III, Alan Wake, and Age of Empires some somewhat recent examples. Having overpriced prices at launch is one thing we might not have in my scenario, but I can live without them.