Seriously, Nintendo is not THAT Important

[MikeRox]

Mythmaker1 said:

Michael-5 said:

BeElite said:

Michael-5 said:

2. Nintendo is by far, the most innovative.

 

Honetly i never know wtf people mean when they say that, and iv gamed with Ninty since nes era.

Who introduced Analog sticks? Nintendo (N64) - This is now on every controller

Who introduced Motion Play? Nintendo (Wii) - This is a center peice for the XBO now

Who introduced handheld to console play? Nintendo (N64 & GCN) - Now Sony bundles PS4's with Vita's

Who introduced shoulder buttons? Nintendo (SNES)

Who introduced dual screen gaming? Nintendo (DS)

Who introduced 3D gaming without glasses? Nintendo (3DS)

list goes on, every gen Nintendo tries something new. Last gen it was a huge success for them (Wii/DS) this gen it bit them in the ass a bit (WiiU)

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What has Sony and MS done? Microsoft made XBL and achievements. Sony made...I don't even know.

I'm pretty sure not all of those are true. And while their list of achievements is impressive, your list ignores a lot of innovation, on both the hardware and software side.

Nintendo created the D-Pad. He missed that one. Though I'm glad their patent on it finally expired. And yes, they were the first company to use shoulder buttons on control pads.

As for analogue sticks... well they were first to market, by about a month. I hardly think SEGA cobbled it together purely based on Nintendo's unveiling especially as they had analogue controlled games in the mid 80s. Sony also released a dual analogue flight stick for the PS1 prior to the N64 pad coming out. The technology was happening with or without the N64, it was a logical step for 3D gaming. It's just that the N64 came to market later than the PS1 and Saturn and so the implementation was ready for launch.

There were motion controlled products before the Wii. PS2 had one, and Sega had also experimented with motion controls in the late 90s (a prototype "wand" was developed for a NiGHTS controller), even if they didn't bring it to market fully. I'm sure there were 3rd party motion controllers for the PS1 as well. They certainly didn't take off until Wii Sports showed the world a viable way for them to be used though.

Dual screen gaming... certainly not a hardware revolution in line with other listed things also, Sega Dreamcast had dual screen gaming via the VMU, though the screen was very limited as to what it  could display. So yeah, SEGA can have that one, not Nintendo.

3D gaming without glasses? that's something that's been so revolutionary even Nintendo are now back tracking from it. I understand they now also have to pay a lot of money in royalties due to it being someone else's technology their screen violated (yes I'm aware Sharp provided the displays).

For the record, I love Nintendo and certainly wouldn't want to see them go anywhere. But it's amazing how much they are now being credited for when actually the technology would have been happening and used anyway and other long fallen rivals have also contributed just as much to gaming which now by default seems to be attributed to Nintendo on the back of them being the company that survived.

edit: See a post higher up has even earlier examples.