| Staude said:
Eye toy was pretty mainstream known and it had motion controls. Sony expanded the userbase first. |
Power Glove? Nintendo expanded userbase first, so Sony was able to successfully release EyeToy :P See what I've done? Used your logic to prove my point.
Concerning your other statements. Here's a fairly simple example, which should make it clear what wrong with your points. Who's responsible for exploration of the Americas? Norse of Columbus? Even if you'll say Norse, what about native Americans who "explored" the Americas before Norse? You're arguing over wrong thing. The only thing that matters - who brought public awareness of the Americas. Definitely Columbus. Use the same logic here - d-pad and motion-controls are Nintendo achievements (read below, clearly stated by tuoyo). Speaking of online, a lot of consoles since 80s were "online capable" (not necessarily multiplayer online) one way or another, a whole bunch of console manufactures experimented with online (not to mention PC, which is still superior to consoles comparing userbase that plays online), but I'd say Sega and Microsoft deserved fame to be named as Columbus of online play on consoles. Dreamcast and Xbox made it right, successfully launched true online-capable consoles (sadly enough it didn't help Sega).
CD is more of a technology leap. The only thing it brought - games that are heavy on CGI, which's not a bad thing on its own account, but hardly could be translated into gameplay innovation. The best analogy - today's use of DVD (X360) and BD (PS3) for games. Do games on BDs are significantly better than games on DVDs? No. Do "more space" translates into "better games"? No. As we have already learned only CGI-heavy games (Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon etc.) are being published on several DVDs - this's the only annoyance when playing games on DVD instead of BD. Use the same logic back in those days when CD came out. People keep telling me that N64 lost because it used cartridges instead of CDs. I d'say Ninetendo f*cked up badly because of several reasons (as if people are saying that PS3 only lost beacuse of it's price point). Games on N64 didn't suffer because of cartridge use, the only thing that PS1 usually had and N64 didn't - CGI. N64 cartridges were considered previous generation technology compared to hi-tech CDs by mass user who wasn't well into technology and wasn't aware of the fact that if throw away all CGI - game easily fits on cartridge. So I'd say - a buzz, marketing, PR - that's what damaged N64 most if we're talking about how CDs influenced console war, but not lack of CD technology itself (and maybe one more reason - CDs are significantly cheaper to make than cartridges). Clearly not a problem speaking about DVD vs BD comparison, mass user usually can't see a big difference between them, maybe, due it's similar form-factor... I assume it's safe to say now, that manufacturer wasn't able to explain "advantage" of using BD-games instead of DVD-games to mass user, i.e. this time PR campaign wasn't successful enough.
