Zekkyou on 12 July 2014
Of course MS didn't start any of these things, they just popularize the current form of a few (not necessarily a bad thing, depends who you ask :p).
On a side note (since you brought up failure rates), both Sony/MS have done a good job with making the PS4/X1 stable. They did of course play it safe with the hardware, and the X1 + power brick seem almost comically big compared to the PS4/WiiU, but all in all they've done a good job.
