Does Nintendo get too much credit for saving videogames?

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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.

 

The NEC's Turbo CD launched long before the Sega CD.

@Legend11, Tomb Raider's digital controls weren't near as precise as the analog controls of Mario 64.