This is an example of what to do if you want your thread to explode into a petty war zone. Congrats, OP.

Anyhow, I chose Nintendo purely for the fact that I don't care for much from the other two. The only reason I would buy a PS4 is for what Square Enix has to offer and the only reason I'd buy a XBO is for Halo. That's it.

i voted microsoft cause i wanna see the results

I choose Sony because I grew out of saving princess Peach in Mario along time ago.

The console industry is ecosystem that feeds off the various players in the market. Everyone would be significantly worse off if ANY of them left the console business. competition drives innovation and price competitiveness, less players would mean gamers get screwed regardless of who it is that is left.

If it wasn't for Xbox, next gen consoles would've been just upgrades in graphic cards. Same old JRPGs, no truly advancements in game mechanics (TPS/FPS), no blockbuster games etc...
Xbox got Western devs a chance to be themselves and consequently dominate.

Thats actually for a different but related reason. If not for Sony and later MS, Console gaming would practically be dead. And PC gaming would be nowhere near as fruitful as it is now.

There's no way of no this for sure. I doubt console gaming would've died. We would just have different companies involved. We could speculate that console gaming might have been better if Sony and MS weren't involved, or speculate the complete opposite. I imagine though that things would largely be same to today's reality.

Personally, Playstation is essential. Just because it has the games I enjoy. I like Nintendo too, but there is more to my liking on Playstation.

ouya

Someone sounds jealous because they couldn't do it first