Should Video Games Be Like Movies?

[The Dark Knight]

DVD players are made by several companies: Panasonic, Sony, etc. To watch a movie all you have to do is buy a DVD and put it into whichever player you own. Makes sense, right? It would be ridiculous if Universal started releasing DVDs only for Panasonic DVD players and WB only released DVDs for Sony DVD players. So here's where my question comes in:
Why don't video games work the same way?

[Lucky Bob]

They would probably get too involved. I like games to stay relatively simple, and fun!

[Psycho Fox]

Well it is simple Sega, Nintendo ect takes a loss on every machine they sell they make the money back on fees they charge the game makers. Thus for it to be like DVDs you would either have to have

a) A Monoploy where one company and one machine controls so much that all have are viturally or actully only for that system (the NES days came close to that)

b) Going back to the Atari days where they tried to make money on the hardware this would mean that there would be no quality control on the system and be like computers where any hack can make a game.

It is just not a good idea look what happened to the PC market. The x86 architecture became a semi unoffical standard why becouse IBMs name was on it. Other systems that are better then the x86 in one regard or another became a small part of the market at best. Would you really want to have the PSX standard with no real hope of it really improving? Without Sony having competition that is what we'd have. I remeber their them chanting that the PS one will never die.

Remeber becouse the of the IBM standard the computer industry is years behind only now has the IBM PC caught back up to what the competition was doing in '85