Despite calls from Denis Dyack and EA's Gerhard Florin for a single console platform, analysts have near unanimously agreed it would be "bad for the industry," hindering innovation and consumer choice.
For its latest regular "Analyze This" feature, Gamasutra asked Ed Barton of Screen Digest, Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan Securities, Ben Bajarin of Creative Strategies and Billy Pidgeon of IDC:
• Do you think it's possible that the video games industry will create a standardized (development or hardware) platform in the future?
• How would independent developers not benefit in a market with a single gaming platform?
• Isn't PC gaming already the "one gaming platform" standard? Or is this analogy not quite right?
In surprising concordance, while most agreed that such a unification would be good for cheaper and more accessible development, the realities of existing console manufacturers requiring proprietary formats and lack of technology-driven innovation would ultimately hinder the industry.
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we already had a year with one system and look at what happened. You had a machine that needed to be sent in 33% of the time!
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it did give MS a head start thou and they worked it for all it was worth! Couple good games and achievments
1 system jus isnt doable in this society...jus to much money to be lost and made.....
And all the innovation will be out the window and we would never move ahead in video games unless that one company said so....sooooo stupid idea and thread
With gaming growing every year there is no chance at all for there just to be one system...hell at this rate I see Nintendo, Sony, MS, and someone else jumping in the system wars...
people need variety in what they want to buy.