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Which company?

Microsoft 118 19.16%
 
Sony 156 25.32%
 
Nintendo 339 55.03%
 
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Pavolink on 19 March 2014

The three companies brought something meaningful to the table.



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kirby007 on 19 March 2014

its not important what innovations they offered, its what they gonna offer



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jlmurph2 on 19 March 2014

Microsoft



MoHasanie on 19 March 2014

Microsoft in the last decade, followed by Nintendo.



    

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Cj2i3 on 19 March 2014

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fatslob-:O on 19 March 2014

How about neither of them ...



papamudd on 19 March 2014
Puppyroach said:
Definately MS since they created the first, truly functional online community (yes, Sega was first on Saturn and Dreamcast but even I find it crap :)), introducing achievements, probably making the indie scene as big as it is now, introducing the best controller of all time and also introducing true, controller free motion controls.


Sony did online before MS, and best part is that it was free...

Sony had hands free gaming on ps2...

MS controller is the worst controller i've ever played with at all...

In any case most of what you said is a matter of opinion... MS definately improved on certain things really well, but they haven't really innovated anything except maybe doing more with a console than just gaming. Again though Sony was the first to bring multimedia to gaming consoles with a dvd player built in... So really what has MS innovated at all if anything? TV input(which really is a step backwards not forwards)

--Nintendo first for showing that the industry can still grow and expand in more creative ways than just graphics...

Sony second for always doing more of the front running of new technologies, dvd/blu-ray/multimedia, online gaming, no controller gaming (ps2 had this)... Sony has done more than any other console in terms of new features and technologies first.

 

Distant third to MS Xbox as they just follow what other people do, but have greatly improved upon what others have done before them (most of the time anyways)



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I will permaban myself if the game releases in 2014.

in reference to KH3 release date

Shaunaka on 19 March 2014
hated_individual said:
I say Nintendo...

GameCube was first console to have wireless controller, add-on that allowed you to play Gameboy games on TV and usage of GBA by linking to GC which allowed cross platform local multiplayer or even act as a secondary screen like DS.

Wii introduced a fully fledged controller with motion controls, first built in web browser into a console which also played videos and first console to have WIFI also allowed SD cards for expansion of storage.

That one is false.



Azhraell on 19 March 2014

Impressed no one has said neither of them...



Andrespetmonkey on 19 March 2014

Microsoft pioneered online gaming on consoles, though you could argue it was going in that direction anyway. Nintendo's innovation's barely survive past 1 generation, but they possibly in some instances act as a catalyst to other innovations. I don't really see blu-ray as an innovation by Sony, more of a natural progression. It's just more storage. I don't think any of these company's have been particularly innovative, I think if you replaced any of them the industry as a whole would be largely the same and be headed in a very similar direction. Online services on consoles would have emerged without Microsoft, just a little later, motion controls are dead anyway, and have been done/would have been done anyway, we'd still have hardware pioneers without Sony. None of these companies are pioneering the VR-revival which is the next big thing.



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