That's because Sega, Atari, Nintendo, and who ever else was making consoles before Sony where Game Developers, so they were competiting against the multiplatforms as well. 3rd parties took a back seat regardless of where they were.

Yes, so we agree. good:)

I certainly don't want Nintendo to exit the hardware game but Sony has zero chance of failure in 8th gen. Sony corp could go bankrupt with basically zero impact to PlayStation. It's largely independent and they would have a laughably easy transition to total independence as a brand. The numbers as early as 2015 should show wild yoy profits.

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Tell that to the Vita, lol.

There isn't a need for any consoles, really. No one's going to die or starve if all the consoles suddenly disappeared.

And there is the true irony.

Looking at the recent weekly sales, it seems that there's room for 3 consoles IMO.

consoles not handhelds nice try