@inspirationgrid This is what I hope for because stagnation is creeping into the console space at a steady pace! Microsoft and Sony are the only ones currently competing with one another. Imagining the idea of Nintendo and several other companies with cool ideas jumping into the fray...Makes me shiver with delight! While it would be messy at first, with luck the situation would become quite interesting. Though developers would have to struggle with making multiplatform games more so than they do now.
Monolithic products are bad for the consumer, as without forces outside of them keeping those companies honest, it's too easy for those companies to screw with end users! As there would be little in the way of alternatives that the end user could choose to get away from a corporation's bad decisions.