I don't need a better excuse. Taking two months to come up with a reply is a poor effort no matter how you look at it.
Oh, I guess you didn't realize that I had read your post like, one hour or so before replying. The thing is that this thread has been going on for two months, and I hadn't read it until yesterday.
And yet, it's still heaps better than Apple. Interesting, eh?
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Okay, I'm not even going to get into the AppleMicrosoft battle. I'll let you have that one.
Um, yes they do- Competing companies make DVD and Blu Ray players, but every one of them must be able to play the same dvds and blu ray disks.
Right, but my point wasn't that "they make different hardware", the point was that they all own their own stuff. That's what my point was. It doesn't matter whether or not the hardware is different, it's that everyone is in control of their own hardware/software/intellectual property.
TV networks compete to own broadcasting rights, but do they need to port a film reel when they want to show it on another channel? Of course not.
You're still taking it too literally. A channel would LIKE to have every show in the world on it, but they can't, because the people who produce the shows want to be viewed by a wider audience. You're getting so nitpicky, so particular, so "makes it sound logical" that it's actually getting really hard to argue against. You're misunderstanding the point so horribly that all I could hope to do was copy and paste my previous post all over again.
So no, it really is you who can't see it.
you're assuming that if one company owns the console, suddenly they are also the only company making games for it.
I never said that.
I'm not sure what bizarro land your logic originates from,
Speaking of which, I believe you talk to a bizarro, alternate reality version of me and respond to him. That would explain why you keep doing all these straw-man fallacies with all the things I say.
Nobody ever said it'd be one company overlooking every aspect of every game made.
Including myself.
It doesn't work like that.
No, it wouldn't. Also, Z is the last letter of the alphabet, and I'm going to pretend you didn't know that and give you a big lecture on it.
The console makers would be only too happy to receive their former competitors' new games on their console- the existing fanbase for those companies would ensure continued support for their games.
Yeah, any business would like to eliminate their competition. But it just doesn't work like that. There'd still be a monopoly on hardware, which would be big and powerful enough to do whatever it wants. Possibly a better example than Microsoft would be Wal-Mart; they're like the console that all the products are stored in. But because they're so powerful, they can bully the products into doing stuff that they might not want to do. Don't get that confused with the product companies not being able to compete (because they still do), they just can be given a rough time by the department store. As it is, Wal-Mart is decent enough to the point I wouldn't call them evil, or even super-mean, but imagine if one store was the only one you ever bought stuff from. Then it'd be a problem.
Fair point, but you have to wonder how far they really need to go from here. It's not like progress would stop, anyway.
Oh I'm pretty confident it'll keep going for the foreseeable future.
...Only under your assumption that all other companies stop making games.
The assumption I never made.
I still can't work out how you arrived at that conclusion...
Because I didn't.
I disagree. Competing consoles split the resources of multiplatform game development,
That IS one downside to it, yeah.
and denies the majority of player bases from even experiencing an exclusive game.
Now you've dug into what I think most people think to themselves when they decide that the one-console thing is a good idea: "I'll get to play all the games that come out!" But listen, that may be annoying for you, but it really won't help the industry all that much. Maybe in a small level, for a short time, the console would see more game sales because everyone has the same console, but in the long run, the sepp--
Okay you know, I'm tired of this conversation. It doesn't really matter whether or not you think it's a good idea, of if you feel like you're right, or anything, because it won't ever happen. AND, if--as you said--it theoretically did happen, I
definitely wouldn't have to argue about it; I'd only have to wait a few years and let the reality of what happens speak for itself.