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No, no, no, no, no.
Genuine, fair, real competition is good for us. That's not what the console wars are.
In part because of this:
: You get folks making exclusive games to woo people over,
If I just love games, rather than getting one home console system, I now have to buy multiple platforms if I want to play Mario, Zelda, Halo, Forza, Gran Tourismo and The Last of Us.
Competition should drive prices down, right? Except now I have to actually spend 2-3x the amount on hardware just to have access to all the games.
Or do without...
I miss Mario, I really do. But I don't think I even have enough plugs to power another box where my gaming setup is, nevermind anything else.
The Xbox 360 and the PS3 were sold as loss-leaders for several years because their backing companies were already massively rich from other areas. Another platform couldn't have been created (by let's say, Samsung, Sega, HP) because they'd have been undercut on price, and Microsoft and Sony just threw money at the problem to secure their position in the market rather than competing on equal terms.
Ouya probably won't take off because it doesn't have the financial backing to secure any exclusives, the development environment is too different to easily make ports
: You have console makers trying to make their consoles distinct with new
: features or motion controls or what have you.
Yes, those motion controls that are so widely implemented in games because they're different on every platform and massively unequal in adoption, capabilities and format.
Kinect is cool, but I honestly don't have enough space to use it. I could have used some waggle/pointers though, but MS won't support that.