Microsoft Avatars vs. Sony Home?

[sethnintendo]

naznatips said:

dsister44 said:
avatars came first, they were patented before the miis. but ms didnt see the need to release them .

 

Source?

 

Some stupid old game that I think MS produced (late 90s I think) which you can barely says resembles avatars.  Pretty much anyone can bring up another game that came out before that game.  Saw a thread posted about it on here a long time ago.

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=34096 (found one of the threads but there was one that had more replies that I saw)

 

"We're not claiming to have invented avatars," Schappert said at some point, "but at the same time, it's a logical extension of our gamer card, of our gamer tag…"
Suddenly Schappert was interrupted.

"I'm claiming to have invented avatars!" Mattrick shouted.