Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

[Materia-Blade]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Materia-Blade said:

Isn't that exactly what sony and ms do?

 They've never done anything short of paying for exclusivity. What Nintendo did was strong arm people into putting tech in their hardware preventing third party from venturing out and going multiplat. It was a scare tactic. Atari thought it was Nintendo trying to create a monopoly but it was really just Nintendo using strong arm tactics to hold down and force third party games to be exclusive. Its amazing how much people rationalize this stuff and no, MS and Sony have never done this.

"They've never done anything short of paying for exclusivity"

So very wrong. Paying for other systems not to get games is the first that comes to mind.