dazza74
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Thinking the other night, I've spent quite a bit of time over the last few months on this forum listening to some of the real hate directed towards the PS3 in particular and I thought to myself do people really want a brand like playstation to go out of business?
Because let's face it what good would that do if that was the case and Microsoft did rule the roost (I'm excluding Nintendo as they are working to a different strategy IMO). Without competition from another format the game prices could go through the roof, you want an example of monopoly look at how much it costs to watch a premiership football match on tv these days. And more importantly there would be no pressure to bring out any updates, add extra facilities basically raise the bar. And lets face it we've already seen it happen with Sega, and although we still benefit from their games I always felt the Dreamcast was a pretty good piece of kit, and the gaming community in general was more the richer for having a Sega Console.
Because let's face it what good would that do if that was the case and Microsoft did rule the roost (I'm excluding Nintendo as they are working to a different strategy IMO). Without competition from another format the game prices could go through the roof, you want an example of monopoly look at how much it costs to watch a premiership football match on tv these days. And more importantly there would be no pressure to bring out any updates, add extra facilities basically raise the bar. And lets face it we've already seen it happen with Sega, and although we still benefit from their games I always felt the Dreamcast was a pretty good piece of kit, and the gaming community in general was more the richer for having a Sega Console.