competition is good for the economy you Fool. I have always know Jaffe was an idiot.

lol.. poor ps3 fanboys always trying to come up with something.. so they can feel better about being in last place.. ps3 is for real games. which was it lair, ratchet, heavenly sword.. get out of here man... ds right now has the best variety and best games out there and is trashing the psp..so much for the so call gimmick everyone was calling it in the beginning. now even crybaby sony psp fanboys now always finding themselves saying i can understand the success of the ds and not the wii.. calling it a gimmick..well here is a wake up call .. the wii is on top and in 2008 will have the most exclusive and diverse game out of all three systems...do the math. and go back to your corner... call us back when you reach 9 million system sold

There never will be one console, yuo really think NIN,Sony and M$ are going to agree on someting unified. Just look at blue ray and hd dvd. with no competion drevelopers just get fat and lazy look at EA with there NFL football i mean my god its disgusting the product they put out now. And try to call it a game

They're slowing progress. They should be making peripherals and games as 3rd parties.

David Jaffe! Shut up, please... May be you can create good games(I do not know), but you do not understand either gaming market or gaming industry.

He's really starting to irritate people that were once his fans. I mean, God of War was a great game and he obviously has a good mind for game design and creation, but his ideas on the overall video game market are just lame. He needs to shut up and concentrate on his job, let everyone else do theirs.

Besides, it's not like this will ever happen. The only way any company stops producing hardware (Sega, Atari, ect) is when their product fails for more than one generation. I don't see any of the big three dropping off any time soon. Nintendo, well they are Nintendo, MS has got a nice foot-hold this gen and a lot of money to keep going and Sony has done too well in the past, is gaining momentum now, and again has a lot of money to keep rolling. And, as was stated by a few people above, competition is a good this in any market.

This is a market that is growing exponentially. There are a lot more people getting into games, even the older generations (and not just because of the Wii; my mom likes guitar hero. I never could get her to play any games in the past!). Great for games. Great for gamers.

Well I know why Jaffe wants one console. If it was a one console world the people who would benifit from it the most would be developers. I'm not sure why he's even talking about the world needs one console when he only works for one console. He doesn't even know about the hardware and control style found on the MS and Nintendo hardware. He may of played them or heard of it but he'll never make anything on them. He already is in the world of one console. Skewed opinion from a 2nd party dev

Is deciding how to split the pie - because Sony and MS at a minimum would have to get together. Right now, both feel there are advantages in going it alone.

From a consumer and developer standpoint, it probably would be beneficial but I suspect we would see less of a price advantage for consoles (more like the Wii where you are paying $250 for $150 worth of tech).

The other issue is that no one really knows how to write code that works well on multi-core processors. That is one of the problems with getting the benefit of the PS3 cell - everyone seems to be stuck at about 30%. So there are benefits in having different types of architecture - developers are forced to learn new tricks that eventually might make it clear how to best design a multicore processor for a console.

We are about two generations from a unified platform providing more benefit than harm. But if we can do ray-tracing and hopefully greatly reduce the cost of creating art in games, then I think we are ready for a unified platform.

And in a sense it doesn't matter very much for consumers if there are two main platforms - most games will be made for both and therefore consumers get most of the benefits of the single platform. There are a few exclusives but I suspect the exclusives will average out - a great racing game on one system will find a comparable great racing game on the other system. So I think the benefits of a single platform are somewhat exaggerated, at least for the near term.

The idea behind 'One-Console' is fine but on reality it cannot be done.

it sucks that he just can't have an opinion without getting scrutinized by everyone in the industry....I guess it comes with the celebrity

and you are wrong to say that there won't be competition anymore, there will be a lot of competition, a lot more than before. Think about this, there are now 2 types of competition, the hardware competition (consoles) and the software competitions (games) the hardware competition influence the software one because now if a console sell more the the developers will want to make games for that console. but there is also the competition between the games of the same genre on the same platform, with only one console out, there will be a lot of FPS's out that will compete with each other, and each one will have to be the best one in storyline, graphics, gameplay, features, online, etc to make the consumers buy it, so we will have to choose between games like Resistance, Gears, Halo, Haze, Killzone, Unreal, Half Life etc only i we consider one (or more) of them like the best. Same story for rpg's, with FF, Tales of, Blue Dragon, Lost Odissey, or Mass Effect, or with action games like God of War, Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden etc........... there will be a monstrous software competition between all this games because all of them will be only on one console. the companies should do like the producers of the dvd/BD players, they will have one box that plays all games(movies) but every box will have a different design, options, controls and accessories based on who is the producer. So who want to do a console (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, and maybe Sega or Apple) have only to decide a life period for the consoles (between 5 and 10 years) and discuss at the beginning of each next gen period the new specs for the next gen console and the main features that all consoles have to support, the rest like the design of the console, the accessories (that won't influence hardly on gameplay) and other things like versions with bigger hd, or consoles that will support more or less the multimedia functions (ps3/psx style) all this will decide each company, so nintendo may choose to sell you only the console without any multimedia functions instead sony will incorporate maybe everything and Microsoft will give you the "options" like add-ons etc. All this i think is possible, and will be the best thing a gamer would dream about.