Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

[bouzane]

Materia-Blade said:

bouzane said:

At least they have relationships with third party developers. What is so wrong with their approaches when it has worked so well for them traditionally, and by traditionally I mean for over a decade (two in Sony's case)? I know they are overly permissive of unfinished and broken games but Nintendo hasn't exactly been perfect allowing some laughable garbage to release with the Nintendo Seal of Quality emblazoned upon them. Let me put it this way, the PS2 sold more third party software than every Nintendo home console combined and the PS4 looks like it will easily settle into second place. What am I failing to understand here and what is so unsustainable about Sony's / Microsoft's approach?

Their relations work horribly for gamers and recently they are terrible even for 3rd parties.

How is this approach terrible for gamers, I certainly enjoyed the plethora of third party titles available on Playstation and Xbox? Additionally, I fail to see how the relatively open environment the Playstation and Xbox have provided third parties has been the source of any major issues. Most problems being experienced by third party developers can be attributed to other causes such as the graphics arms race and the resultant bloated budgets. Do you have any examples of third parties struggling due to Sony's / Microsoft's lack of oversight and regulation? Furthermore, how on Earth can you justify your statement that Sony and MS have the worst approach to third party relations when Nintendo is clearly doing the worst? Finally, how is the Sony / MS approach unsustainable?