| HoloDust said: - Atari 2600 - for making interchangeable cartridge format popular (Fairchild VES/Channel F being the first), thus making software business on open (non-willingly, since they lost in court to Activision) hardware platform (for all the good and bad) a viable option, effectively kickstarting 3rd party developer console industry. - NES - for popularizing D-Pad (no, Nintendo didn't invent it, it was Tiger Electronics) and making it standard for consoles, as well as for introducing "Seal of Quality" and all the related restrictions, as different type of approach to 3rd party developer business model that managed to return fate in home video games to NA market after the crash of '83 - OG XBOX (AKA Dreamcast 2)- for being first console to have architecture that will set the blueprint for how consoles are built in later generations, introduced HDD as standard, thus opening console market to more demanding games, as well as for making first unified online gaming experience via XBOX Live in console market. I feel it's a bit too soon to tell for any other console after that. |
EDIT: Tiger had a patent for it, not sure if they used it immediately or not.
You're correct, though the NES having a d-pad likely was more to do with the Game & Watch having a ton of success.
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