Could see a future where there's a unified console "OS" with multiple hardware makers as opposed to the 3 (soon 4) isolated platforms we have now. Like PC, dvd, TV, blue ray. There might still be room for a segregated player, like Apple is in the computer area. I think microsoft would be happy to exit the hardware side of consoles as long as it owned the OS and ecosystem. MS only gets into hardware when it's under threat. They only got into consoles because they saw PS and OpenGL as a threat, and they only produced the Surface tablet because they know 3rd parties are probably more committed to Android than W8 and tablets are a threat to PC / laptop so MS needs to be in there.
Ninty could end up software only, butnot in an environment where Sony and MS are relatively unchanged in the console arena.
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