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gekkokamen on 02 March 2010
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twesterm said:

So in your opinion what is the single biggest innovation to console gaming this generation?

  • Online Multiplayer - With Xbox Live came a brilliant ableit juvenile community.  Every game was instantly connected to thousands of people and competitive multiplayer and co-op experiences became the norm making gaming a social experience.
  • Motion Controls - The Wii isn't a graphical powerhouse but it did bring something that opened the doors for 10's of millions new gamers -- motion controls.  Everyone from my six year old nephew to my 80 year old nana bought a Wii because of the new control optioned that immersed them even further into the games.
  • Achievements - With Xbox Live came multiplayer and achievements.  Multiplayer let you play with friends from your couch and achievements gave you a reason to play and keep playing.  By dangling a prize in front of the player with a description that's even short for twitter, gamers did things they normal wouldn't do and played more than they normally would have played.
  • Technological Leap - It's no secret that the Xbox was a giant in the looks department.  Look at a Gamecube, PS2, or Xbox game and compare it to a launch Xbox 360 game and the difference is insane.  Now, with the PS3 out and several years into both consoles, looking at a recent PS3 or Xbox 360 and comparing that to a launch Xbox 360 game and the difference is night and day.  Games have made a huge leaps and bounds in the overall size and look in three short years that is just incredible impressive.
  • Downloadable Content - Ah, horse armor, so expensive and so worthless.  Sure, we laugh but no with DLC we can expand our games by having regular content delivered to us for a price.  Sometimes, like in the case of horse armor, it's a joke, other times, like in the case of Borderlands, it's almost an entire new game!
  • Other - Did I miss something?  Reply and let everyone knoe!
  • User-created content - Specially when it's the core of a game like Little Big Planet (or any other I don't recall now)
  • Seamless gameplay-cinematic transition - enabling more dramatic games and hollywood-like experiences. This could be part of the tecnological leap, but in all honest, it's been tried before but never done the way a game like Uncharted 2, MGS4, FFXIII or God of War III do it.