David Jaffe Wants a Single Console Future

As a professional game developer with 10+ years in the industry, I have to say this is a remarkably dumb idea. If we were ever to adopt a standard console architecture, the motivation and ability to update, upgrade or otherwise modify the hardware goes to zero. They never updated the VHS standard, the DVD standard, the audio CD standard because they couldn't. Doing so would invalidate the media that came before. It would be like next summer's update to the 360 makes it so none of the current 360 games are playable any longer. Not going to happen. With a single standard platform, one of two things would happen:
1) The platform would remain static and would not change. This would hurt the consumer and developers because ongoing technology improvements would not be available. Imagine if we were still limited to PS1's. Bleh. To be sure, a second party would recognize this opportunity and would offer a new platform, putting us in the exact situation we're in today.
2) Different vendors would incrementally improve the "standard" with faster machines or ones with added features. We already have a platform like this. It's called the PC. Ironically, the closest thing to a single standard game platform is the PC, which is very, very heterogeneous, thereby eliminating the advantage the consoles have - homogamy of platform.

In short, this idea of a single gaming platform is naive, impracticable and, bluntly stated, stupid.