Since OP and true_fan seem to be failing at it, i'll give them a hand.
Actual, genuine innovations introduced to the console market by Microsoft.
1) Key chain security for boot time per-console crypto decryption of low level boot environment.
2) Quick-release secondary connectors on controller cords to prevent damage when a cord is tugged from the console
3) Unified multi-device accounts system (xbox, xbox 360, xbox one)
4) Xbox 360 disk cryptology being burned to the drive rom (xbox 360)
5) Matching pair hardware (dvd drive needing the same key as the mainboards keychain to function) (xbox 360)
6) Sub level video stream encoder to overlay live data on a through-and-out hdmi stream without stripping hdmi security layer (xbox one)
7) ANA/HANA video encoder processors with 8bit depth substream upscaler (xbox 360)
8) Surge protection on AC module (xbox, and was actually implemented as a remedy to a large batch of xboxs having issues with unclean power and fluctuations in line flow)
There you go, 8 actual genuine xbox/microsoft innovations.
So will you stop pretending that mundane things like "first to have a game with a certain number of sales, in a certain genre, with certain feaures" is innovation?
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