Besides, I don't like the lineage: 
Well my take on it is...
Sony used profits from their high quality reliable A/V product sales to muscle in on the console market after Nintendo publicly embarassed them with the SNES-CDROM project.
Microsoft used profits from their illegal monopoly on OS market and their overpriced substandard rubbish operating systems like Vista etc
So in a world of lesser evils I would rather Nintendo and Microsoft went bust and Sega came back and battled with Sony
