Does Nintendo get too much credit for saving videogames?

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Legend11 said:

choirsoftheeye said:

Cobretti said:
leo-j your an idiot.

Nintendo saved the industry period.


Sony come in and revolutionized gaming by going into 3d and cd and made it grow.


and now the Wii revolutionized gaming and is making it grow.

1. Sony didn't introduce CDs into gaming, Sega did. Even discounting the Sega CD, the Saturn launched before the PSX did.

2. Likewise with 3D gaming - Star Fox at least came out before the PSX did (and I'm sure there are plenty of others I don't know - see 32X, perhaps). Also, early PSX 3D games were clunky and mishappen. Until Mario 64 (and the N64) added the analog stick and camera-dependent directional controls to 3D 3rd person games, they weren't mass-marketable. And, of course, Doom gets credit for 3D 1st person games.

Tomb Raider came out before Mario 64 and was a 3d 3rd person game that was mass marketable.

1. Check your facts.  It came out November '96, Mario 64 was out in both Japan and the US by then.

2. It was mass-marketable because of boobs.  This is just my opinion, of course, but I remember attempting to play that game and be astounded by how clunky the controls were.  Ahh ,the advantages of camera-sensitive controls and joystick.