Theres way too much stupidity in this thread.

Theoretically MS and Sony could create a cross-platform-console, since they target the same market. And that the games sold would work on either console. Which would mean that they would focus more on releasing software and not focusing on selling their consoles so much.

But when I think about it, this is kind of how it works today. All major third party games are released for both, it's just a handful of exclusives that separates them.  From the software point of view.

But I guess it's an interesting idea, that consoles would move more towards becoming PC:s, and being released within a 5 or 8 year time-span, and they would have to follow the same kind of architechture and performance. And you can choose whichever consoles you want but play all games released for either one of them. This would open up for other companies to create consoles but don't have to develop games for them. And Nintendo, MS and Sony could focus only on sofware if they choosed to.

And this would mean that multi-platform wouldn't even exist, since it's the same achitecture, so the games would play as good on either one of them. Well, theoretically of course, we know there can still be issues with drivers and hardware, as with computers.

A good or a bad move/change? Not sure, but interesting.

I love the way, MS leaving somehow = Sony Monoply over video games!
MS leaving = Sony control over the console market, that is all. PC will alway exist so will mobile.

um no

At least some people on here understand that consumer choice doesn't always mean consumer benefit.

no

Idealistically I do think ms has done more to hurt the industry than help, but I would love a sony hardware device with ms created software ie games and os, but I really dont want only one contender in the home console race as I think it would be worse for the industry than ms entering it in the first place

I disagree. The main thing I think needs to happen is MS needs to get a lot ore of its own IPs. This dual console releases are what's killing the industry.

If lets say we had COD on PS and Battlefied on XONE or vise versa and other big franchises, the industry would be in a much better place.

Sure they are. PS1 and PS2 were the golden years of gaming.

Saturn was as big as N64 in Japan, and got a few really good JRPG's. From what I hear Panzer Dragoon Saga is the best 32 bit JRPG so.... :-/)

PS1 had the best library because of 3rd party studios. Not 1st.........

Actually I retract my statement because during the PS1/PS2 era days Nintendo provided enough competition. Still, competition makes quality, remember how bad Zelda 2, Metroid 2, and Super Mario Bros 2 were? Back then Nintendo had no competiton.