Will Sony and MS copy the Switch?

[Alkibiádēs]

taus90 said:

Alkibiádēs said:

I guess you'll live in denial then that Nintendo beat Sega and Sony to the punch when it came to handheld gaming on your TV. You can shift goalposts all you want, but those are the facts.

You say the Super Gameboy is not the same as the Switch... Well guess what, neither is the Sega Nomad, PSP or PS Vita. Could the PSP play Sony's PS3 games on the go? No? Not the same as the Switch then, not by a long shot. As for the Vita: Sony isn't even developping games for it anymore and hasn't for a long time. You still need to purchase two different systems and it works by streaming (which is very clunky and unreliable in many countries). The Vita an the PS4 do not have a unified library of games like the Switch will have. It doesn't have detachable controllers either. So again, it's not the same as the Switch. Playing PS4 games on the PS Vita can be a very frustrating ordeal due to the difference in control lay-out. PS4 games are made with the PS4 controller in mind, not the PS Vita.

Well technically supergame boy was addon for two different consoles compared to PSP and Nomad which were single system and had the ability to hook it up to ur tv "built in". But dont you think we should walk down a little bit more down the road and meet Turbo Grafx 16 and Turbo Express, oh and look who we have next door, Game Gear which also had an addon to play Sega Master systems carts, how fascinating. Predates Super Game Boy "originality" by 4 years. And 4 year's are enough to come up with something "innovative". Sorry to burst your bubble. 

So the best you can come up with are handheld consoles nobody every played or bought. Fascinating. Innovation is building on top of the knowledge of previous generations: we don't start from zero every time we "invent" something new. Scientific knowledge is cumulative, something a lot of you guys are apparently unaware of.

Oh and it's entirely possible for two entities to come up with the same idea independently from each other: just look at farming and the domestication of animals.