David Reeves, formerly Sony Computer Entertainment’s European boss guy and latterly Capcom’s boss guy, told CVG that the enormous cost of game development could see Sony and Microsoft merging in the future.

“When you’re on the first-party side, you realise how really, really expensive it is to develop a platform. Whether it’s PS3, or Xbox 360 or even Wii, they cost millions – maybe not billions, but absolutely millions. You don’t know when to put that stake in the ground of technology and move on. You know, say ‘that’s enough’”, he says.

“Eventually, it may just become so expensive to develop that Microsoft and Sony say, ‘Okay, let’s get together.’ I’d say it’s between 10 and 15 years away. That’s how long I think it will take. I don’t think it will be the next console cycle, but probably the next cycle after that, where you might have something platform-agnostic.”

What a grand idea. I was inspired to plagiarise a song.

Imagine there’s no retarded console fanboy ranting in the comments below every single article we publish about the Xbox or PS3
It’s easy if you try
No flamewars below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Fragging for today

Imagine there’s no “Xbox is betterererer” or “PS3 is betterererer”, or 12-year old brats whose mom would buy them only one console so they have to slag off the other one
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no Halo versus Killzone too
Imagine all the people
Playing games in peace

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one