About this time a couple years ago, on some website long since purged from my memory and my bookmarks, an article analyzing this generation’s three new consoles ended by stating, rather proudly, that Nintendo is the past, Sony is the present, and Microsoft is the future.

Back when Ian Samuel still headed up the Gameforms letters section, and thus back when Gameforms was still worth reading, someone stated that the Playstation 2 is the console that wants to be a PC, the XBox is the PC that wants to be a console, and the GameCube is the only home console without an identity crisis.

Sometimes I think those two statements are linked.