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Now I'm sure the rabbit hole goes deeper than this. But just for simplicities sake, Sony did copy something but not in the way that all the Nintendo fanboys and general haters will imply.

Sony had the tech before Nintendo / Microsoft / etc. There are various videos of showing this in 2004-ish.

Nintendo was the first company to take a gamble on this tech. Sony didn't want to hitch it's wagon to something that may have been an utter failure. (Makes sense, considering the wild success they have had with their current formula in past generations.)

Sony has now come full circle and given this tech a full array of thought and design and now will offer the feature in large part due to witnessing the success Nintendo has had with it.


So while, Sony may have copied the momentum that Nintendo has created, Nintendo never would have had the idea in the first place without Sony.