Me: Competition puts a stranglehold on 3rd Party Devs

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You know if someone could come up with a solution that perfectly balances the two extremes of the very open PC model,and the closed console model that would be ideal IMO. A hardware standard or standard set up specs,but machines that follow that standard and made by multiple electronics makers like LG,Phillips,Toshiba,Pioneer etc etc.

past attempts - MSX, 3D0 .
and there have been attempts to put a PC in a box, even more literally than the original xbox.

I suppose in some ways the intent behind XNA could be seen as an attempt to do this through software? (unified dev tools across hardware platforms)