Did the PS2 have it?  I am curious how the 360 copied something on the PS3 when it came out as it was before the PS3 was released.   I remember seeing the guide button day one for the 360.  Apparently Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo thought it appropriate to stick a menu button in the middle of it that would enable it to access the main game menu, power down, etc...  All of them have it, and all of them allow you to turn your system on or off with the middle button.

If only Game Room were more like Home.  As of now, it is more of a glorified copying of the Wii's Virtual Console, where you get game cabinets and a challenge board and so on.  You can't even walk around your arcade, and there aren't any people active in there.  The avatars wandering around are your friend list.  It is not meant as a way to socialize, but a way to go retro.

Considering I wrote the original post, it would be useful for me to chime in here.  I had forgotten about the HDMI cable change.  Outside of this, I had thought about thw Wii and the 360, and how copying went back and forth on that, with the 360 also, but I couldn't think of what the PS3 did first that others copied, so I asked about it. 

You should ask this question again next gen, when we see standardized HDD, USB controllers, bluray or similar disc based tech, 3d etc etc.

"If it were to control mainly modern games?"  That's funny considering the PS3 controller has kept the same basic design, and I find it quite perfect for "modern gaming."  As do millions. 

Those who can't see inspiration from the DS controller in every controller since, except motion controls, is either biased or blind.  It's pretty obvious.  Even the GC controller drew inspiration from it.  The others have just had a few tweaks to make them different.  However, it's funny to note how they have gotten closer to the actual DS over the years.  All already had 2 analog sticks and 2 hand grips.  The original X-Box only had 2 shoulder buttons, but this gen the 360 now has 4 just like the DS (as well as having the analog buttons).  They even changed the first X-Box controller to have a form factor closer to the DS when the original was panned as a horrible controller.  And there's no way anyone with a sane mind can deny the similarities between the Wii Classic controller and it.  The original version looked quite a bit like it, but this new iteration is almost an exact "copy."  I don't have a problem with it, as the DS was excellently designed.  It's basic form has lasted over 3 gens, and will probably continue onward for more.  And all of these other controllers I see as paying omage to it, but with their own little tweaks.

If you remember well, the first ps1 controller (before they even released the first dualshock) lacked the analogue stick and rumble. And it really was a SNES controller rip-off with two buttons added (L2 + R2). Then, N64 released in 1996 with an analogue stick followed by starfox 64 in 1997 that came packed with a rumble pack. Then, Sony's response to Nintendo was the dualshock with analogue sticks and rumble.

Well, i still agree with anyone who says it is by copying that in some way, that these companys contribute to make the industry move foward rather than backward. 

(Sorry if it was already been writen, only read through page 7)

they made a video console? after em?

LMAO XD

That would make nintendo, sony, sega, microsoft and whatever the name of the companys that made turbografx-16 and neogeo, etc . copycats of Atari ?!?   =O

(just kidding BTW)

this feels like a rol article... though i dunno, something's off, the guy seems actually serious...

something went down the wrong pipe after reading that. stop trying to kill me you assasin of snark.

didn't the famicom have a primitive modem for some sort ofsattelite link for some very basic functions.?    Not sure I'd call it online but it was an early form of networking.