wow, that's quite an outcome this thread has :)
at least the op has stated his opinion which is arguable but ok. to me it's clear that gaming would be different now without ms. the moaning about ms pretends cod is exclusive to x360 is legit but i don't here someone moaning sony pretending fifa 13 is exclusive to ps3 as they did.
another thing is the funny part regarding sony and nintendo would suffice - by the time back then the market was stuffed with sega and nintendo, there was no need for sony but they wanted to rule the market and they did. so why is this not possible for ms? because of their intentions? ridiculous. and of course, a market consisting of only nintendo and sony is not a real market as they are targeting different groups which means that sony dominates core-gamers and nintendo casuals. this is *not* called competition.
