Infinium Lab's Phantom console may one day get released... I'm not sure how it'll do - I personally wouldn't pay for it, but it's a really interesting buisness model. You can never rule out the current giants meeting their downfall - 10 years ago we still had Sega and Atari, with Sony only just entering the fray and Nintendo king of it all.... however what is now different is that Sony and Microsoft aren't solely console manufacturers like the late Atari and Sega were... They have massive Electronics and Software industries to fall back on if ever their consoles fail. That is why, with Sony set to challenge Nintendo in their only other market (handheld consoles), the most likely change will be that the 3 big names in the console market, may become 2 big names whilst Nintendo goes the way of the Sega-Dodo
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