What matters next gen (Power or innovation?)

[Mr.Metralha]

dunno001 said:

Of these, neither. What matters is games. If a system doesn't have the games, it dies.

But if I had to pick between these 2 only, easily innovation; it's more influencial than power over every gen. Observe:

Pong won, despite being the simplest game known to exist. It innovated by creating gaming.

Atari 2600 won, for introducing arcade games at home and interchangable cartridges, despite both its main competitors (Colecovision and Intellivision) being stronger.

NES won, for bringing about quality control, and completely redoing the controller. A stronger Master System could not topple it.

SNES won, for continuing to innovate the controller. Admittingly, it also got to ride on the Nintendo brand, however, the arcade power in the Neo-Geo could not overtake it.

PS1 won, for making the CD standard from day 1, though, while also on the earlier Saturn, the power also brought about the FMV (and in my eyes, the fall of gaming, but that's for another thread) propelling it past the superior in power N64.

PS2 won, though it was the weakest system this gen. I can't point to any significant innovation at all though.

Well... it's the current generation... I think the verdict will be obvious here...

Dreamcast hates you.