If Sony made the Wii and Nintendo made a PS3. How would last gen have played out?

[HylianSwordsman]

Pyro as Bill said:

HylianSwordsman said:
Logic suggests things would have played out quite differently, since Sony and Nintendo would have made different games. Neither the PS3 as a Wii nor the Wii as a PS3 would have sold as well if made by the other company, because the PS3 and Wii both played to their respective companies strengths. The 360 likely would have won the generation by a small margin, but the gaming industry as a whole wouldn't have seen the growth that it did. Rather than 260+ million consoles being sold, I'd say it probably would've ended near 180 million. The handheld market might have even suffered a bit as well, since the Sony and Nintendo brands would be weaker.

100M 360

40M SonyWii

30M NintyS3

ish?

I was thinking more like

75 360

50 Sony

55 Ninty

Because all three would have suffered. Sony would NOT have done well with a Wii type device. Nintendo would only have done that well due to Sony's failings creating more room, while the 360 would have benefitted more from its head start, but ultimately wouldn't have benefitted from other factors. Whether you like the Kinect or not, it definitely helped sell 360s (over 20 million Kinects sold to date), and wouldn't have been made if not for the Wii. With both Ninty and Sony suffering, there would be less interest in games overall, and that would also make the market smaller.