Where would we be without Sony this gen?

[Nem]

Thunderbird77 said:

Nem said:
In a very bad place. I imagine every game would be more expensive and with more expensive DLC. Japanese gaming would've have completely crashed and/or in part have gone to Nintendo. Microsoft would be making little effort in the first party camp and we would be beeing force fed kinects. Games would all require a permanent internet connection. Millions would just never adopt the new system.

So... yeah... in a worse place. Microsoft is very abusive when they find themselves in a monopoly like situation.

MS would be light years behind monopolizing anything in the gaming industry.

In those circunstances they would have quite the grip on the hardcore market. Its unlikely the hardcore would move to Nintendo when the Wii U is significantly less powerful.