Biggest innovation in gaming this generation?

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Johann said:

Deneidez said:

Innovations... Lol... Everything listed has been before this gen. Some said that motion control. Actually some old gaming systems had motion control devices. Unfortunately(or fortunately) they failed. One example is Sega Activator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql-UZv3AS-E

I choose other and say that current gen has dumbed down games even more. Thats only real 'innovation' or more like change I can think of.

Except for the dumbed down thing, which is totaly subjective, I agree.

 

Nothing that has been done this gen hasn't been tried before. More than once. Only diference is that now it worked. Doesn't mean it's innovative.

I'd say that's very much what innovation is; successful or emergent implementation, but not necessarily pure invention.  And in the console space, no platform historically really brought as much innovation to player interface as the Wii has to it's controller (accelerometer, IR pointer, dual handed) and thanks to smart design and attractive software it's really paid off them.