Maybe. I'd assume Sony, though I don't want that really. Microsoft might fully give up pretending the next Xbox is more gaming than multi-media honestly, and from what I understand it might be the best idea/inevitable.

I never understood this whole copying crap. If companies never "copied" each other than there would be little advancement in those products.

I'm leaning towards Microsoft leaving. Whatever the case, I predict something big is going to happen to some company, for the worse. But like I said before, just a hunch.

I think Sony's gone. They're having their announcement right now, and it's the same old same old. Microsoft actually works with computers, and stays with computers. PS wandered out of their A/V device market, and it's starting to show IMO.

I think that Microsoft will survive and Sony will fall... I actually prefer Sony to Microsoft, but it's just a hunch. This is, assuming of course, that any of the big three do flop.
They probably spent a bit of money on this conference, but I can't imagine that it will capture the surprise of anyone who wasn't planning to buy the system anyway.
On the plus side, Diablo III for PS3!

Lol. Sony is not going to drop out of the console industry. Short of the entire company going bankrupt and even then someone else will acquire the Sony PlayStation brand and division, which is profitable, and will keep it going.

There is absolutely no market analysis that would support thinking otherwise. The people that 'think' it is going to drop out can't back that statement up with anything.