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Intrinsic on 12 July 2014
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Play4Fun said:
fps_d0minat0r said:
 


atleast they got more to chose from than on nintendo consoles.


High quality > Quantity. Muehehehehheheheee...

Mnementh said:
Intrinsic said:
 

I will have to agree with the OP. Sony didnt start or pioneer console gaming as it is, but the created the console gaming industry as we know it today.

That's another way of saying they changed it. If you see it this way - the industry today isn't the one Sony created. That was the industry back in the 6th gen. Today the industry has online, achievements, focus on shooters and realistic graphics. The things MS introduced with the XBOX and expanded ith the 360. Today we have no longer the industry Playstation created, this is the industry Xbox created.

Yep, but alot of people would never admit that because they prefer to knock down MS.

If OP was really trying to say the industry as it is today is mostly due to Sony, I would have to agree with you and say MS had more influence on the way PS4 and Xbox 1  currently are than Sony.

I think this is all a very tricky topic. and its really hard to pin point who had the most influence into shaping the industry into what it is today. But its possible though.

I still stand by sony being responsible for what and where the industry is today and that its not MS. Here's why. Even after the NES and the SNES and having Sega on board to the 3rd and 4th gen of consoles didnt do anything to change the way the world looked at gaming or how the business of consoles was conducted. In the 5th gen when sony came in they changed all that.

Its common knowlege that sony came into the industry at a time when console gaming was still generally referred to as a toy. This was at a time when Microsoft clearly came out and said they would never make a console and how consoles as a business doesn't make sense. In the very same way that not very at sony even supported the idea of making a console. Its easy to look back and say MS did this and did that, but MS wouldn't even have come into the industry if not for the success of PS1. Once they came in, they simply did what MS would do based on their roots and expertise and thats why we got a well thought out OS and connected service. Thats not saying they didnt do anything great, just that even that feat can be attributed to sony.

Nintendo on the other hand, they are still doing exactly what they were always doing post Playstation era, still extremely resistant to any kinda significant change, still somehow managing to have a mostly traditional console in this day and age down to a limited 3rd party support. And that is why they are where they are today.