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Swordmasterman on 12 January 2016
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Chazore said:
daredevil.shark said:

We have had situation in industry when PS1 and PS2 had monopoly and nothing bad happened to the industry itself. As for this gen PC has already proved its success and prevented PS4 dominance. As of now all third party developers are focused on big 3 (PS4, Xbox One and PC) and Nintendo is not in that list.

Back then if you recall the market was different, in those times there was no proper internet communities like the ones you see today, no core of online gaming let alone digital gaming and of course today we have advanced in visuals a lot more than those two gens alone. Times, they change things, especially since those two were also around way before the 08 crash.

PC hasn't prevented anything as the markets are and work differently. The only difference is more people have noticed that money is easily made on PC and with it having nailed down digital gaming (while consoles are just getting the hang of it) granting further exposure. In the console space though you cannot deny that Sony has dominated this gen completely in terms of sales, units, sofwtare sales both digital and physical along with most devs on board, the end of this gen will be akin to Order 66, not even the younglings would survive.

We had a Monopoly with GameBoy, with Playstation 1, Playstation 2, and were one of the Best Systems ever, Monopoly in Gaming is Different from Monopoly in other industries, is Like Someone Trying to Sell a TV Service, they will want to make you Stay as long as Possible and will do their Best to make it, they Not make  much Money from the Devices, but from the Software.

 

The Only Bad thing is Microsoft, on Number 1, so there i Agree that a Monopoly would be Terrible, but a Monopoly from Sony, or Nintendo, would not be a Bad Thing, they Can even make Square Enix,  Bandai Namco, and Capcom, release games that are Exclusive for Japan, Another Monopoly that we Have(or had) in Gaming.

 

Counter Strike, is the PC Best Seller in the Shooter Genre.

League of Legends, have more than Twice the users than Dota 2, and is the Most Played game Today.

We had the Monopoly of World of Warcraft, for the MMORPG Genre, and World of Warcraft, is the Most Played game to Date, now we Also have Guild Wars, that have a Lot of Players.