People say this all of the time, but the whole point of competition is to produce a winner and a loser, then the loser might just come back with something competitiive. United is a classic example of this, we now need to do something to compete again. The fact that we got such a bloody nose this year isn't a bad thing. Companies enter competitive markets to win as it makes more money. Microsoft have already lost the competition with the hardware, PS4 is currently profitable as hardware and can be cut in price, Xbox One is currently, even without Kinect, more expensive to make due in part to the eSRAM (that's their fault due to design decisions that they made). If Microsoft want to stay in the competition the onus is on them to provide compelling software and services as a balance against their hardware disadvantage. It's the responsibility of the Sony executives to make as much money as possible for their shareholders, and if Microsoft and Nintendo can both be put into coffins, then all the better. Would it be good for consumers for that to happen? Probably not, but it's the consumers at the end of the day that decide the winner of a product competition when they make the decision to buy one over the other.
Well played.
