Sony's innovations to gaming.

[Kerotan]

Burning Typhoon said:

Kerotan said:
first console for it's regular controller to have speakers. The PS4 controllers are fricken cool the way they have that. like the phone rings in game in infamous second son and the ringing comes out of the controller. can't help but put the controller up to my ear every time and say hello in a really weird voice :D

First gaming console to offer a streaming service. aka PS Now

First console to have a social hub, PS Home.

First console to push 3D gaming? PS3

God gaming is so much better off for having Sony when you think about it. How can you not but love a company like that.

As people are saying, Sega, and more specifically with the genesis has accomplished what many are saying sony did first.  Onlive did streaming first.  Sega genesis was the first console to offer full games downloadable over the internet, and I'm sure sony wasn't the 1st to have a social hub.  Even if you have to count PCs.

If you don't count PCs, it still isn't innovative to say sony did the exact same thing you can do on computers and applied it to consoles.

I don't like nintendo or micrsoft products.  But, it feels weird for me to say that I can't think of a single useful innovation sony has ever done with console that didn't already exist somewhere else in some form.

Xbox had hard disk drives

Sega CD did discs

Sega did downloads, online play, voice chat, internet browsing, and all sorts of things.  

What did sony do?

Light guns?  No... CDs?  No.. multi-taps? no...  DVDs are stand-alone.  taking something like that and adding it to consoles isn't innovation.  Same goes for bluray.

I know... being able to change the HDD without voiding the warrenty.  That counts (barely) for me.

The rest of the stuff about USB ports, and controller buttons and clicking and stuff...  That stuff isn't innovative.  Just being first doesn't mean innovative.  That's not what the word means.

i stopped reading your reply at the pc did it first bit. we're talking about consoles and the whole this did it first thing can be applied to everything even computers.  all modern technology is taking existing technology and using it to better effect. sony's innovation is taking others like the dvd or blu ray and implementing it into it's console. not claiming they invented the shit. 

 

also onlive is not on a console so stop bending the rules in here. it's clearly about consoles so just because you don't want to praise sony you change to something irrelevant. 

it's like saying we shouldn't be greatful for ferrari because yano they didn't initially invent the wheel. /SMH