I propose that we define something around here different. When we claim a company invented something, we simply are claiming they invented it's use in this particular market and specifically handheld and console being seperate. By that standard, if Nintendo is the first to utilize a particular technology in the home console market they'd invented it's use for console gaming. I think this is fair because otherwise we can keep going back to find someone else who actually created the technology, but the reason why that is not significant is because that technology hasn't at that point in time been used for the console or gaming industry. For example motion sensing technology may have been around prior to the Wii but really it's because of the Nintendo's use of the technology that we are now playing dozens of games with motion sensing gameplay. So in that sense Nintendo will get the credit it for it. Not credit for inventing the technology, but credit for reinventing is for use in the gaming world. And when I say gaming world I say the mass market of home consoles not some wacky hodgepodge system no one owns.
Because no technology will ever be created specifially for the gaming industry, there is always high-end tech labs and think tanks brainstorming cutting edge electronics for more important or bigger industries then the gaming one, or at least more open ended development that's not specifically catering to the gaming industry. So the only relevant arguement is who we credit for taking this technology and using it to appeal to the mass market gaming industry.
