By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Gaming - Which Of The Big 3 Has Done The Most For Gaming?

 

Which has done the most?

Nintendo 488 60.40%
 
Sony 219 27.10%
 
Microsoft 37 4.58%
 
See results 63 7.80%
 
Total:807
pr3st00 on 06 August 2013

Nintendo.. for a long margin.



Around the Network
AnthonyW86 on 06 August 2013
Viper1 said:
AnthonyW86 said:
Sony, they made gaming more mainstream and appealing to the more mature audience, and stepped up the game of integrating new technology in consoles.

Did Nintendo bring console gaming back from the dead and back in the living room? Yes. Would it have come back from the dead without them? Yes aswell.

It would?  Are you sure?  Because investors and retailers had basically blackballed funding and sehlf space for anything video game.  Nintendo circumvented this problem with 2 actions.  1, they called it an entertainment system rather than video game system.  2, they did a major campaign in NYC at a retailer to test the market for video game consoles again and blew them away.

Had anyone else tried it and used the terms video games or not used a test market...or had the incredible Super Mario Bros to display it with, I don't think it would have ever come back.  At least not in the form that we know it today.  It would be something very different.  I suspect the computer industry would be the closest entity to have revitalized the industry but even they suffered pretty hard at first.

And while the crash largely affected the US, it was certainly felt in Japan and Europe as well.  You don't have a global industry go from $3 billion in revenue one year to $100 milion the next year without it affecting everything.

I'm absolutely positive it would have happenned sooner or later. Like you said PC's would still have seen game development and in the long run other companies would have seen that there was money to be made, espcially once technology advanced. And indeed they called it an entertainment system for a good reason, and other entertainment system's would have made their way to the living room sooner or later.



MDMAlliance on 06 August 2013
AnthonyW86 said:
MDMAlliance said:

However, that isn't correct either.  Saying the Playstation itself changed that image or that Sony was the reason that the image changed is incorrect.  Sony didn't make those games, Sony didn't make some "inherently more adult" console.  So no, that's wrong too.

edit: In fact, I believe the "kiddy" image that Nintendo has stems from their squeaky clean family friendly attitude rather than actually being for kids.  For real, Metroid was made before Sony entered the gaming market.  Do you think that game was made with little kids in mind?  It was fucking modeled after the Aliens movies.  It's also a Nintendo game.  It may not have been the most popular game, but that's definitely something that was viewed as more adult.  

There was also Mortal Kombat before PS.  And I do NOT think that the PS suddenly made older people play games.  I still believe it took time before the transition was made.  I don't think Sony was responsible for that change.  I think it became easier to go after adults as hardware improvements were made since games weren't as limited as they used to be.  I also checked your profile and you seem like you do gaming anywhere except Nintendo (though that is only by looking at your profile, can't say if it truly reflects your gaming habits).  

I said the Playstation as a system(and the games that were released for it) changed that image, that doesn't mean that it was Sony's plan to begin with. It did however happen thanks to Sony releasing that system. And the fact that matures games were released on NIntendo's platforms before doesn't change the image. Just check out how gaming consoles were portraited on tv, there was a huge shift in and after geneartion of the first Playstation.


What I think you fail to understand is that HikenNoAce literally means that adults couldn't enjoy gaming until the PS and that he thinks it's because Sony.  There's no happenstance with him.  He downplays Nintendo everywhere he goes, and tries to make Sony seem like a God.  So while I agree that around the PS era, gaming did take some kind of turn (not immediate, for sure) I do not think it had to do with Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft.  These things would have happened without Sony.  It may have been a bit more difficult with Nintendo around not wanting certain content on their systems or limiting 3rd party devs, but #1 it isn't like that anymore with Nintendo #2 SEGA could have taken that spot eventually if Nintendo never did and #3 Technically gaming is still viewed as a "kids toy" anyway.  The only thing that changed is that the appeal broadened.  

edit: Oh, and I did read what you said. I'm just trying to explain how HikenNoAce isn't right.



EpicRandy on 06 August 2013

Nintendo were also the first to save player progress in a video game with the legend of zelda.



KingdomHeartsFan on 06 August 2013
EpicRandy said:
Nintendo were also the first to save player progress in a video game with the legend of zelda.


Added.



Around the Network
riecsou on 06 August 2013

If its historical then Nintendo no doubt.
But if its for the last Gen only. I would say all 3 are winners



drunk on 06 August 2013

Nintendo Powerglove

the first device to transform nerdy gamers into handsome chick magnets



Soundwave on 06 August 2013

Nintendo. It's not even close.

The console industry is still built on basically the same 1st/2nd/3rd party formula the NES established, and the modern game controller, with the side step into motion gaming which Nintendo again was responsible for popularizing, is basically an extension of the NES pad.

Even the concept of the "killer app" game stems from the NES with Super Mario Bros. Everything since the NES was more or less just a natural evolution. Mario still is to this day the most famous video game character worldwide and the most successful so it's kinda hard to argue that.

Sega is really underrated too, even though Sony has had far more success, IMO Sega had as much of an impact and was the first credible contender to Nintendo's near monopoly on the game business and also what a lot of people attribute to Sony were things that Sega actually pioneered (CD? Uh Sega was there first. Marketing to the MTV crowd/older audience? Sega wrote the book on that first. Jock gamer? Madden NFL and FIFA and NBA Live were popular on the Genesis first, etc. etc.).



ChrolloLucilfer on 06 August 2013

Obviously Nintendo for near single handily resurrecting the home console market and their innovation since. But without Sony PlayStation would have the Third Party Publisher/Developers blossom to were they are today just rely on PC format and Nintendo constrictive Third Party policies?



Assyrian612 on 06 August 2013
KingdomHeartsFan said:
Assyrian612 said:
Ninetendo didn't come up with triggers, that would be Sega. Why is there so little points for Sony and Microsoft? How about Microsoft had the first online store between the other markets? Sony had the first free online service? Nintendo reached 64 bits first? Sony had the largest library of games with the PS2. Nintendo has some of the oldest mascots. Sony brought DVD and Blu Ray to our home consoles? I know this would not count, but it would be nice if Sega was on this list too.


Well put buttons/triggers, some people consider any shoulder buttons as triggers.  I already put Microsoft revolutionalized online, that basically covers the online store.  Added free online.  Idk if I can put largest liabrary because that isn't really credited to Sony.  Oldest mascots isn't really an innovation.  Added DVD and Blu Ray to Sony.

Yes but let's be honest long standing mascots are very rare in the industry, especially since the 80's.. That is generations of successsful gaming of those mascots. Btw Sony had the first dual analog handheld I believe PS Vita. Also Sony does have the largest game library for a console (PS2).

http://www.digitallifeplus.com/9517/which-console-has-the-largest-games-library/