| dividePower said: Probably because all three companies have different agendas on how to develop their console brands? Like how Microsoft's after the "Entertainment device" thingum. Also there's the divergence in gameplay with 360's Kinect, Sony's PSMove and Wii and Wii U's WiiMote and GamePad. Different companies want to pursue different methods of gaming using different hardware, so it seems a little impossible to reconcile all these... Plus if there's really going to be a "unified" console for Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo at the same time, who's going to actually be in charge for it? And how would the profits be split? Besides, the industry isn't exactly in a stage whereby manufacturing hardware isn't economically viable anymore, so it's still profitable, so why not? |
One thing that the three have in common is the controller which third party can focus on if they don't want to develop for a specific control scheme. If Nintendo, Sony or MS want to release some new way of controlling, nothing would stop third parties from selling their games only through Sony channel so it can use Move.
If Nintendo, Sony or MS wants to make a console then nothing would prevent them from doing so as most gaming would be streamed but companies like Samsung, Panasonic, Dynex (yep even them), Toshiba etc would be able to release consoles too. It's more like a dvd player that has access to gaming... it'd be a bit like that Ouya thing for Android games except it would play any games through any channels as long as you subscribe.
