7th March 2006, 1:19 PM
Functionally, it would be nice to have standardized console regulations, so that all games are playable on everyone's consoles, and the only real difference will be branding. Nintendo's innovative additions would be usable on whatever, and in the end I would simply buy whatever was most affordable with an acceptable durability.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)