Which company is the most essential one for console gaming?

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

PenguinZ said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

Multishanks said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
Nintendo introduces gamer as children, Sony keeps them gaming through adult hood, and MS makes it mainstream in the US. With only one by itself would fail, when it was only Nintendo gaming wasn't taken seriously at all.

I was actually happy when gaming wasn't taken seriously/trying to be hollywood so hard.

Thats actually for a different but related reason. If not for Sony and later MS, Console gaming would practically be dead. And PC gaming would be nowhere near as fruitful as it is now.

There's no way of no this for sure. I doubt console gaming would've died. We would just have different companies involved. We could speculate that console gaming might have been better if Sony and MS weren't involved, or speculate the complete opposite. I imagine though that things would largely be same to today's reality.

fair, speculation is speculation. I can only assume from the starting point of this which would be 5th gen, that the companies themseleves are debatably replacable, but the roles that they filled are not, in that gaming would have to be made "mainstream" and "online".