Well, if any left, Microsoft would be the logical choice since they really don't have a long history of making hardware and they can only seem to sell their units in NA and UK.
What is more likely to occur is Sony and Microsoft battle for home entertainment center and only one wins ... and the loser exits.
Nintendo is playing a different game and survives and thrives.
About the only company that might consider entering is Apple. It has explored doing things with the iPhone(tm). But it might be too high-end to be mainstream. It could try to compete against the PSP for handheld media center though. (Again, Nintendo, playing a different game, survives and thrives).
It is doubtful any other company -- electronics or computer -- would want to enter the market because the risk/reward ratio is too high (high risk for low reward).
And as for the one console standard ... that will not come to pass. It already was tried with the 3D0 and that worked out well. We can't even get a standard PC standard for games. That's the nice thing about consoles, you buy the game and put it in and it WORKS. As consoles move away from that, they will start having more trouble.
Mike from Morgantown
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