Who has made the greatest contribution to games this decade and why?

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Onyxmeth said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:

The Virtual Console, finding hidden gems from all throughout gaming history and keeping them alive. I think this is the most important contribution to gaming this decade.

Shouldn't Microsoft at least be given partial credit considering Xbox live Arcade does the same thing to a lesser extent and did come first?

Yeah.

But, they make them all ugly and "upgraded" and add achievements and shit that wasn't in the originals.  And they're limited to arcade games.  And now they only have 198 games, while VC has 294 in America (and 434 in Japan, lucky bastards).  I think the VC is more efficiently organized and a more successful historical archive.

But yeah, you're right.  I just don't think archiving old games was an original idea for either of them (I've been doing it forever), so in this instance I don't care who came first, and think the execution is more important.