Darth Mobius:

Copter400:
I don't think that's gonna happen, unless all governments spontaneously changed to communism. Can you tell me any products which are completely dominated by the one company?

Electric, Water, Natural Gas.... Is that enough, or should I go on?

I live in the UK where these services are supplied by a huge number of companies as they are privatised, is this not true of the US?

Back on topic it seems that game consoles are becoming ever more PC-like (internet access, usb ports, hard drives, pc architecture, running an OS etc) and possibly the definition will become so indistinct that consoles will effectively disappear, which is about as close to the one console standard I think things will become.

You guys forget the main reason why "one console" is a bad idea?

It means the company may be able to REJECT games being published on that console, unless the company making the games pay huge royalites. Meaning good games may very well not get published, unless they try to publish them...erm.,..illegally. You'll see an end to innovation, no matter who wins the Console Wars.

Besides, the three consoles has console-exclusive titles, and console-exclusive hardware, and CONSOLE-EXCLUSIVES PRICES. The 'Wii' for instance would have never came into being in a world with 1 console.

one console is just as likely as one nation, one people, one flesh, one bone, one true religion, one voice, one hope, one vision..........fried chicken???

SilentScope001:
You guys forget the main reason why "one console" is a bad idea?

It means the company may be able to REJECT games being published on that console, unless the company making the games pay huge royalites. Meaning good games may very well not get published, unless they try to publish them...erm.,..illegally. You'll see an end to innovation, no matter who wins the Console Wars.

Besides, the three consoles has console-exclusive titles, and console-exclusive hardware, and CONSOLE-EXCLUSIVES PRICES. The 'Wii' for instance would have never came into being in a world with 1 console.

I never thought of it that way, but even the company that miraculously creates this single-console would have to be reasonable. And plus, i think it would be partialy the other way around; they would start publishing all of the games that they would be offered to try and get as much money as they could, because, let's be honest, business is business