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happydolphin on 04 June 2012
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badgenome said:
happydolphin said:

He might have been trolling you. And since he's very well versed in games and gaming, I wouldn't be too shocked to know that it was actually his intent, going by his follow-up post.

Even Sony fans can be right sometimes! (believe it or not )

Nah, it wasn't a troll. I said it was the first successful CD based console. AFAIK, TurboGrafx-CD was the very first. And thanks to Ys, it was arguably definitely the best.

zomg! 1988!

The TurboGrafx-16 was the first video game console to have a CD-ROM peripheral,[7] which was first released as the PC-Engine CD-ROM² add-on in Japan in April 1988,[8] and then released in the United States as the TurboGrafx-CD in 1989 (though the first consoles with a built-in CD-ROM wouldn't appear until the TurboDuo and FM Towns Marty). This was the first time that CD-ROM discs were used as a storage medium for video games.[9]

But to be fair, the Saturn was a main competitor in that generation, so it's not really legit to just count it out of the argument because it didn't succeed. What you said was true, but it wasn't really relevant to the gen, since the first worldwide leader to implement it was Sega, and that's usually the heart of the topic, wouldn't you agree?

And to be completely pedantic, prior to the Playstation, Nintendo was considering putting the CD-ROM as part of the follow-up to the SNES, but ditched it for pro-con reasons. The same can't be said about other Nintendo innovations like the thumbstick or the wii-mote. It didn't even cross Sony's mind (as far as we know). Also, disk-based gaming was not really an innovation, but more like a design consideration. It's like going with one form of RAM over another, only it's ROM in this case. So no, I wouldn't really consider that an innovation tbh.