If fanboys made the rules...

[Musashi]

One bit of fanboy talk we've all heard is that it isn't fair that Sony owns a major movie studio and co-invents formats and makes players for them. Somewhere around Page 6 of the HDDVD Zealot thread, a guy from AVS who claimed this was quoted.

It all got me thinking: what if it was illegal to publish on a format you helped invent?

-Sony Music couldn't publish (they invented CD).
-SCEI couldn't publish games on any PlayStation, or even on the Sega CD back when they supported it. (CD, DVD, BD all co-invented by Sony)
-No DVDs from Sony pictures
-No DVDs from Warner Bros.
But wait:
-Nintendo would be screwed; cartridges used on NES, SNES, N64 are all proprietary; GameCube uses proprietary disc; by fanboy law, all of their first party games would be illegal.
-Sega would have gone nowhere; Master System and Genesis used prop. carts. Dreamcast used custom GB disc. Only times they could do first party games would be on Sega CD and Saturn.

Good thing we have better rules than that; we'd be out a ton of good content otherwise