episteme on 14 October 2015
One of the ideas behind the original Xbox was to bring PC centric developers to console. They offered PC like features and tried to make it easy to port games. That philosophy was quite successful in the end (especially thanks to Xbox 360) and you could say that even PS4's design is a result of that.
Some other results are that high budget PC exclusives almost don't exist anymore and that the main business of most Western publishers is on consoles nowadays. I don't think that this would have happened with Sony and Nintendo as the only big console manufacturers.
