Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

[DonFerrari]

bouzane said:

Materia-Blade said:

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?

Giving options to customers and letting them choose is bad... and only Nintendo can make quality games, so the best approach to 3rd parties is barring them from releasing on your console.