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

[johnsobas]

PS2 didn't have as much of a contribution as people are trying to make use believe. I mean it was a great system with many great games, but that by itself is not what the thread is about. You could say that it helped expand the market, but a lot of the expansion happened with the PS1 although the PS2 pushed it a little farther. The PS2 didn't give us a new way to play games, the PS2 was mostly just the PS1 with better graphics and a DVD drive. In some ways you could argue the PS3 is a step backwards.