Your forgetting about Nintendo, Sony would not have a monoply.

Not bad. I give this an 8/10

^{This OP is a joke right?}

You said it yourself that Nintendo hasn't had a presence since the N64.

Yes, because monopolies are so good for gamers.

Many seem to be looking back at the PS2 as some sort of halcyon days, but Sony gave us a console with two controller ports, vastly inferior online, no consistent 50/60hz support in Europe, draconian policies on 2D games, and so on.

Similarly at the start of the PS3, they made similar mistakes in that they thought Achievements was an insignificant fad, nobody needs cross-game chat or consistent online, etc.

As mentioned by others, if one competitor left, it would leave a vacuum for someone else (Amazon, Google, Apple, etc.) to step in.

^ Exactly this. In your situation, you're picturing Nintendo as a non-existant company when it comes to presence. That would also means no one would like to invest on them.

I thought I missed some news, now I leave dissapointed :-/

Well the same can be said for Sony leaving and MS staying.

It would be better, I think that with the rise of mobile, console gaming will go downhill. So msft leaving would come at the best time, more for ninty and sony. Of course, msft will increase in price by a large margin if they give tjy xboxup, as tthey're just better at the enterprise side of the company.

I disagree, but respect your opinion.

Glad you noticed!

But really, I don't see how having one console affects the studios that make the games.  Remember the PS2 era?  The shear amoutn of greatness that came out of that domination shows that Sony beinging complete control (for the second gen in a row at that point) didn't make a studios that are nothing to do with Sony put out bad PS2 games.

Creative freedom comes from having platform freedom.  Puting restrictions on studios and makiong games multiplat, reduces graphics to the lowest quality so it suits the lower powered machine.

Steam has pretty much the PC digital market to itself, see how bad that's got. No?  That because people can do more because they know all the customers are in one place.