Well if you have no empathy, that's your problem. Thousands of people losing their jobs is never a good thing. Most people aren't happy when they hear when they hear that thousands of other people have lost their jobs, but if you don't care, that really just says something about you. And so what if investors took a risk by investing in a company? Does that mean there's no problem with them losing money? And not everyone who loses their favorite company is a fanboy. A lot of people may like a certain company's products, and have never insulted the competitors whatsoever. Sorry if people insulted your precious console, maybe you shouldn't take it to such offense.

I have wanted some company's to fail (not to go out of business, just to have a bad year)

Examples

Activision-blizzard at the moment
EA a few years ago

Only through failure can a company correct its mistakes

It's because they want a monopoly in the market, because monopolies are great. It means you can get all the great games on one box and don't have to bother with all that pesky picking sides and missing out on great games. I don't see a downside.

because i thrive on fanboy tears

wat?

I was just thinking you were self promoting :-p

I don't wish for any console or company to fail... the more the merrier is my opinion when it comes to the world of gaming, and to have only 1 major player in the industry would surely mean that it would become stagnant.

I must admit, however, that being a Nintendo loyalist since the old Atari/NES days up until this current generation, I did take great pleasure in witnessing Nintendo reclaiming the throne as #1 and witnessing Sony's fall from grace, and all within the same generation after the exact opposite happened just over a decade ago!

Cause they ruined gaming by being half assed PCs (cept the wii). Of course you get half assed games on half assed platform.

I don't think a lot of people care if they hear thousands of strangers losing their job, but that's just me. Most people would just say "thank god it's not me losing my job in this hard economical time". A smart invester doesn't have all his money in a company. When a company goes bankrupt they can only take the money he has put in the company away from him and NOTHING else. So, if he was smart, the invester will still be able to live a better live then your average person. If he was dumb enough tp put everything into one failing company then he was dumb and deserves to lose all his money and he shouldn't whine about nor ask people to care for him as I will not.

The last thing you said is true, but still doesn't make me care lol.

I don't think of MS and Sony as gaming companies and I want them to go away and/or lose lots of money.

I don't want bluray.
I don't want to have to pay for multiplayer.
I'm not interested in Netflix.
I don't want to have to buy items of clothing for an imaginary avatar.

I'd buy a console from EA before I'd buy one from an OS developer or electronics maker. They are not needed, they are the leeches of the game industry. I hope MS and Sony both go the way of Panasonic's 3DO and leave gaming to games companies.

I want people to lose their jobs and commit suicide. That's just the way I roll.