MS leaving the console race would be good for gamers.

[Puppyroach]

Soundwave said:

Puppyroach said:
Considering the a-holes Sony became when they were the dominant force in the console market, I don't think you would have liked it. MS has been around in gaming longer than Sony (although within computers) and was able to push ALOT of computer gamers to consoles through Halo and the likes. I would even wager that, without MS, the console market would never have grown the way it did during the 7th generation.

The 7th generation growth was virtually all Nintendo getting to casuals in the days before iPhone/iPad. All MS did was split the Playstation 2 userbase into two for a period of time (which seems like that's over, since Sony was never going to release another $600 system again with or without MS). 

Well, ofcourse it was :). I never took away anything from Nintendo, they contributed in a great way (and it was actually only MS and Nintendo that grew during the 7th generation) but Ms helped aswell. Sony are amazing at creating games, but their attitude at the beginning of the last generation was really rotten and thanks to the competition from MS, they softened up alot.

They got the reality check that MS got last spring and that is a good thing (mostly). Withous MS, the console race would be much more boring and MS has also contributed with some of the most amazing games we have seen in the industry.

Actually, I felt the same way as you do when Sony released the PSX and Sega went out of business. I felt that Sony never had any place in the industry and destroyed it because Sega fell. Well, that wasn´t really the case, blaming another company for the failures of your own is never a good way forward.