It'll happen soon, if it hasn't already.

You must have been living under a rock when the PS2 had more than 70% market share, wiped the floor with the competition and still had ridiculous amounts of great games released for it. I'm not even going to bother listing some of them as it's common knowledge the high quality library that console had.

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Very happy about it and not understanding all the negativity.

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Lol nice find. I'll have to use that later.

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- More market share will hopefully mean more games for the platform, (just like the PS2 the console that gathered the biggest Market Share has probably the biggest library of games)

- Also Sony seeing the amazing performance of the PS4 will be more likely to support it with games even more (in fact there are news about that happening already): http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/04/30/sony-plans-to-aggressively-invest-in-playstation-business-first-party-games-and-more-in-2015/

- It also means that MS will have a harder time money hatting 3d party exclusives, so hopefully no more Tomb Raider scenarios

- It will also mean that Sony will have an easier time convincing third parties of developing new exclusive games a la Bloodborne (in other words not money hatting already existing 3d party multiplats but funding the development of new exclusive IPs with 3rd party studios)

so yeah there are reasons to be happy about this as a Playstation fan.

Sigh.....the Wii. The Wii was a thing, despite it not being a "direct" competitor.

Atari dominated a market that was siginifcantly smaller than the current market. this time around, the market is now worth billions of dollars. the ps1 and ps2 both had shovelwares as a majority of its line up but still reached over 100m units sold each. both dominated the market.

the wii also had a craptastic amount of games that were well, crap. too bad the nintendo fans were focused on nintendo games. hence, craptastic 3rd party support from the better developers. not to mention the vast majority of wii owners were "me too" crowd. say what you want about how gang busters it sold, truth of the matter is that most gamers bought the ps360 irregardless if they were casual gamers or hardcore gamers or inbetween. 

nope, no 3DO coz it didn't come over where i lived. 

quantity produces quality. the ps1 and ps2 game library will prove that. more games, more choices = better for everyone. whats anti consumer about that? you want a few games by a select few giant publishers and developers? which would relate to less choices, and less options. that is anti-consumerism... 

if any of the xbone, wiiu or ps4 completely dominates massively, that dominant console will get most if not all of the games. again, as i said, developing a game for one platform which has a ridiculous share of the market ensures the game developer and publisher that that game will release to a market large enough to support that game even on one console. no matter how you look at it, it will always be cheaper to release a game on one console alone. no one can spin that around. 

bottom line

1 console to develop for = less cost and less time = more games can be made = more choices for gamers = more consoles can be sold = larger user base = potential for lower priced games = lower development cost = potential for small and medium developers to once again enter the market = best scenario for gamers. 

this is the truth and no spining or arguing can or will change this. 

competition in the gaming market is only good for determining which console should dominate, after which, the dominant console must completly crush the competition in order for gamers to have the best and most games moving forward, since lets face it, game development is only going to get more expensive.

the wii...which sold gang busters the world over, and yet couldn't sell a decent amount of 3rd party games to save its life...

anyways, imo xbox360 won the 7th gen irregardless if the ps3 has outsold or will outsell it and the wii selling gang busters...

xbox360 took a huge chunk of the market from Sony, and did better in selling 3rd party software vs the wii. that is a win in my books.  

You clearly care about sales if you decided to join a sales related forum.

Yep, X360 were very much a winner in a gen we can't really say there was a loser although Wii killed Nintendo 3rd party support, sony lost half it's market and suffocated in debts;