I was kiddding! Maybe I should edit that post and add an "lol!" or "j/k" or something.  You weren't the first to take me seriously on that one.  I  do think motion was added to the SIXAXIS immediately aftervthe Wii Remote was finally revealed in '05 but I don't want to go looking up patents or anything.  Eyetoy came long before and so did the powerglove (nes), Acitvator (genesis), powerpad (nes), u-force (nes), and a few others that i don't feel like listing right now.

haha I forgot about the power glove and shit like that! 

If you own the equipment already, then not really.  If you were to go out and buy the necessary equipment to play, and try to target high-end gaming, it is.  Owning the equipment to play, means playing what you want, which could be simple flash stuff.

I'll give you that one thing -  because  I do beleive they could make Xbox Silver offer free online play at this current time ( but looking at the whole picture this change makes little sense because most of us are ok paying for a service we feel has more content we're already used to - and they know this ) .. Case-and-Point: You have to consider Xbox Live went online 2 years before PSN was announced.  So they could charge, because nothing else existed !  To most of us this is OUR COCAINE, a very cheap cocaine.  XB Live Gold also  started off much cheaper then it is now ( back in 2004 it was a mere $2.50 a month if you paid yearly ) ..  since no one else had anything it was the very best of anything..

 When PSN launched online gaming was 'free' so to speak..( not really, you still gotta pay for high speed internet, buy a console , buy a game you want to play online, and pay your electric bill ) .. but PSN was very very basic back then  and very 'bare' ..PSN has improved, but since then PSN has always been a step behind Xbox Live.. and this includes reliability.  If you don't think MS uses some of that capital income to give more quality to the user you're sorely mistaken, more people play COD on XB Live then PSN ( which is a give-in because COD - both #1 games on both consoles - sold more on XB 360 ) and when more people play - this uses more bandwidth and cost more. You need to pay for more 'blades' (servers)  ..but honestly the real cost is  having thousands of games, demo's and videos  available for download like XB Live has ( and what PS Plus is offering - which is why it cost ).. the bandwidth you need on a free online gaming service like PSN  -sending a few packets for games back and forth- versus - 500,000 Xbox Live users ( of your 30 million subscribers ) downloading  the same 3 gig demo all within 2 hours is pretty vast in difference ..Also consider XB LIve has had BEEFY security from the start compared to PSN !  How many people do you think have tried to bring down Xbox Live ?!  ALOT !!  XB Live has proven more secure and reliable - and this isn't because its free and undermanned . Sony found out the hard way that not only does good security cost alot.. it cost even more if that security is breached.  Looking at Xbox Live's content-  again -  This is why Sony has launched Playstation Plus, to me this is recongnition by Sony that you simply can't offer all the content for free, unfortunately better things  arent free. 

Again, I do admit they have in the past 2 years made PSN alot better then it was.. they've tried to mirror and copy Xbox Lives model.. but they only now are charging for PS Plus because you can't offer full demos and other goodies without cost.. once again back to what I said - demos being available will LARGELY increase the bandwidth being used to Sony servers GREATLY and this COST ALOT of money..

actually thats not true, MS has said that about 50% of people use Live Gold, so their are alot of people who have Xbox and do not use live gold.  So im thinking it might not be a small minority who do not enjoy paying to play online. I agree you cannot give everything away for free, i get it. But why lump something that IMHO should be free in with stuff that they would have to charge?? I barely play demos, so PSN Plus is not enticing. Better things are not free, but some of us dont want neccersarily better, we just want it to function

I just wanted to thank you Zapp for mentioning Ikari Warriors in the op! I used to play the shit out the game back during the NES era. I believe my friend had the sequel (#2) on NES. Those were the days.... Anyways, I will contribute more to the thread later than just a simple shout out.

To back up the underpowerd myth, During their console's era their graphics were top notch.

The NES wasn't capable of renendering the graphics on Mike Tyson's Punch Out without the aid of a special co-processor. Same thing for the Super FX chip and Mode 7. As with the N64; it wasn't able to play some games without the expansion pack due to the extra bump in textures which reqiured more memory.

Another myth which was floating around during the begining of this generation was about the wii's specs.

Note. almost all of the orignal pics are gone but the actual text is still there.

http://www.wiichat.com/forum/nintendo-wii-hardware/18024-wii-graphics-myths-debunked.html

avg gamer 35 avg game buyer 41 its going up and up

video gaming is for kids,what you mean like movies,books and dressing up

who do they think makes all this shit,cor blimey i ask you,give us all strength

societys ills,its all gamings fault,what a joke and lastly its good to be a nerd/geek they can make a lot of money and thats all women are interested in,well and shoes,mainly shoes but money sure helps

how about, the reason FF13 turned out the way it did, was because the had to dumb it down for 360? im not even a huge Xbox fan but even i think that was ridiculous

Myth: Dead Space Extraction didn't sell well because it was on the Wii.

Truth: It didn't sell well because it was a crap game.