Microsoft has done a lot of innovations

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CDiablo said:

Ka-pi96 said:
Hard drives - Another incredibly important one, although considering the PS3 and Wii (I think) also had hard drives and were only a year later that may well have happened even without Microsoft.

Original XBOX had the HDD as a standard component. PS2 had it optional for quite a few games as well. I do agree it was part of the natural progression though.

I don't know. Nintendo still is allergic to hard drives, and Sony released the PS2 without an ethernet port (or even dialup) or 4 controller ports. It's tough to say.