Samsung...a hardware company should make hardware.

Would be hard for them to be independant when they use a lot of sony technologies, technologies of which only a big company like google or samsung can satisfy, and they need quality hardware people

Microsoft would try and buy the studios and not the hardware division as it would be pointless having both for them, which means pretty much end of playstation, however if they could keep all the people then i'm up for it

Bought by Nintendo of course! :D

Either EA bought them and all EA games became first party Playstation titles or they merged with Nintendo. Those would be my two preferred choices.

So nintendo exists how?  Most of the technology they used is developed with their own research department or by outside companies like amd, ibm, etc.  there is no reason why they would need to be gobbled up by a hardware company, they already are one.  

That'd be the best thing for the gaming industry, the money making home console company paired with the money making handheld console company! Nintendo would have to change ALOT of their practices and westernise themselves too much which they've shown they don't like to do.

If PS still existed, but wasn't run by Sony, would that still be considered a console war loss?

MS should buy all of PlayStation. But if they had to choose between select studios then Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, and Guerrilla games.

No.