Limitation to convergence in the gaming industry

There are major problems with the copyright laws and licensing when companies in the gaming industry want to make a product that ‘does everything’. Also having less pieces of hardware in the house could cause conflicts of interest (when one person wants to use the gadget for one use and another wants to use it for a different reason, when if they were individual items there would be no problem). This is a quality website for general info on gaming. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue23/convergence/