What matters next gen (Power or innovation?)

[Galaki]

Joelcool7 said:

RolStoppable said:

I am going to disregard the original post for the most part, because it contains several errors.

But anyway, when has power ever ruled supreme? Never. The SNES is the only instance when the more powerful system won its generation, but the SNES's victory wasn't based on it being more powerful than the Genesis.

Innovation always is more important, the only time it isn't really needed is when all competitors don't really innovate. In that case time of release becomes the most important factor.

But Rol Sega always innovated (CD, VMU , Activator...etc...etc...) yet they always lost. Nintendo also innovated that could be the reason but as you said SNES was more powerful the Genesis and won despite Genesis bringing in CD's , motion controls and such. DreamCast and GameCube also innovated far more then PS2 did. The VMU and the WaveBird. Don't forget the N64 (3D and rumble).

Now I don't think power will be the deciding factor I voted Innovation. But in the past their are cases of power trumping innovation and innovation trumping power.

Simply using a new tech is not innovation.

Innovation is making the product appealing (and actually work) to the masses.

Hardware is useless if there's no software to make effective use of it.