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What company has come up with the most innovations?

Sony 43 19.63%
 
Nintendo 162 73.97%
 
Microsoft 14 6.39%
 
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bigtakilla on 15 July 2016
daredevil.shark said:

Sony. Eye toy was their best innovative devices (pioneering motion control gaming) as well as new optical drive formats introduced by them. Sega was also in this list but not in OPs list.

Powerglove and Super Glove Ball was the first motion control device/game, and Sega CD was the first optical gaming device for home console.



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Lrdfancypants on 15 July 2016
Veknoid_Outcast said:
Lrdfancypants said:

:p. Nintendo looked deep into my soul and saw my younger self's jealousy while I  played pitfall on my intellivision and my neighbor jumped on turtles in what looked like the most amazing game machine ever!

They're very smart indeed!  Where can I preorder that mini and damn the new Zelda looks amazing.  It's like they brilliantly planned the nostalgic original NES from my duckhunt/paperboy days to bridge me to what looks like an amazing zelda for the future. Those tricky marketeers!

Have you seen/played this? I was thinking of getting it myself - I found it used at a local shop on PS2. But it sounds like it's right up your alley :D

Oh, wow!  I had no idea this existed.  Long live Intellivision!  :P

It is up my alley.  I have countless hours of my childhood into that thing. :).  Well, that and the vic20/c64.  The NES as well although after the NES I played mostly on PC until the 360 released and drew me back to console. 

I played alot of Atari but I did not own it I simply played all the time on my cousins machine.

I am serious though, I think I am buying that NES mini.  I know I can emulate but I don't mind paying $60 for something like that.  It is worth the memories.



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gergroy on 15 July 2016

Obviously Sega was the most innovative...



fleischr on 15 July 2016
daredevil.shark said:

Sony. Eye toy was their best innovative devices (pioneering motion control gaming) as well as new optical drive formats introduced by them. Sega was also in this list but not in OPs list.

Didn't Nintend pioneer motion control gaming in the 90s? OOOOOOHHHHH YEEEEEAAAAH



I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016

Luke888 on 15 July 2016

Nintendo of course, in addition to what everyone else said, The Legend of Zelda was the first game on a console to let you save your game, I'm positive it's quite an important innovation



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Veknoid_Outcast on 15 July 2016
Luke888 said:

Nintendo of course, in addition to what everyone else said, The Legend of Zelda was the first game on a console to let you save your game, I'm positive it's quite an important innovation

This alone is HUGE. In fact, I'd argue this innovation was the most impactful of all. Super Mario Bros. might have ushered in the modern video game industry, but The Legend of Zelda pushed that industry boldly into the future.



Baryonyx on 15 July 2016

I feel like if we included the entire backlog within all three companies, it will most likely be close to even with Nintendo in a small lead. I don't care for innovations if they are a pain in the ass to use.
Everyone can innovate but the chances that the innovations are good are a entire different discussion.



 

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pokoko on 15 July 2016
Veknoid_Outcast said:
Luke888 said:

Nintendo of course, in addition to what everyone else said, The Legend of Zelda was the first game on a console to let you save your game, I'm positive it's quite an important innovation

This alone is HUGE. In fact, I'd argue this innovation was the most impactful of all. Super Mario Bros. might have ushered in the modern video game industry, but The Legend of Zelda pushed that industry boldly into the future.

Kind of.  We already had password saving, which was incredibly innovative for game design despite being clunky, and computer games had external and internal saving first, which then influenced console design.  Nintendo's on-cart saving was nice at the time but Sega's innovation with memory cards and then internal memory for home consoles ended up being more important to gaming.



Veknoid_Outcast on 15 July 2016
pokoko said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

This alone is HUGE. In fact, I'd argue this innovation was the most impactful of all. Super Mario Bros. might have ushered in the modern video game industry, but The Legend of Zelda pushed that industry boldly into the future.

Kind of.  We already had password saving, which was incredibly innovative for game design despite being clunky, and computer games had external and internal saving first, which then influenced console design.  Nintendo's on-cart saving was nice at the time but Sega's innovation with memory cards and then internal memory for home consoles ended up being more important to gaming.

Fair points. But the creation of the cart battery isn't the most important thing about Zelda per se. It's more about what it represents and what it facilitated: open-ended non-linear games that needn't be finished in a single sitting. That had far-reaching consequences for console gaming, consequences that reverberate strongly today.



Proxy-Pie on 15 July 2016

Quite obviously Nintendo. The 2 other companies did innovate as well (like Sony with the modern controller shape, Microsoft with their robust online), but Nintendo pretty much laid out the foundation of modern console/handheld gaming.