Wow. At first I thought "wow, no one mentions Sony on the first page, there is hope". Then I read "Sony", looked at the username and sighed ;)

Which company? | |||
| Microsoft | 118 | 19.16% | |
| Sony | 156 | 25.32% | |
| Nintendo | 339 | 55.03% | |
| Total: | 613 | ||
Wow. At first I thought "wow, no one mentions Sony on the first page, there is hope". Then I read "Sony", looked at the username and sighed ;)

Nintendo without a doubt. They have their faults but lack of innovations isn't one of them...
N64 did it with analog controls, rumble paks and 4 players as standard, not even PS2 did this.
Gamecube then brought in wireless controls, analog buttons (great for racing games) and the ability
to link a GC to a GBA. Not to mention having a cool Phantasy Star online community.
Then Wii shook up the whole industry with motion control and virtual console with nil online fees.
Wii U has once again brought something new to the table, whereas the competition feels like their predecessors
but with more power.
wangjingwanjia said:
Didn't Sega do this with Dreamcast? But I would agree that MS really pushed the online forward a lot so you have a very valid point there. |
they did. But it wasn't the behemoth it was on consoles until the Unified Xbox Live.
I would say it pushed it forward much more than being innovative.
Everything though that all 3 companies have done, have been done in the past, to some extent, with varying degrees of success.
IE Gaming online was on PC's a decade prior. The wii wasn't even the first time motion controls was on a nintendo machine
(The Powerglove was done by Mattel for NES in 1989)
jlmurph2 said:
You know what, I'm changing my answer to Nintendo. |
You're just looking for reasons when the product was quality even though the games werent there fore them. Your negativity towards what Sony has done is astounding.
| ishiki said: microsoft. I don't, though I've come around to achievements.
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Innovation. The topic is innovation.
S.T.A.G.E. said:
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Thats what you took from that whole thing? Lol seems like you're looking for reasons adding in that VR and Playstation Now when we havent seen their impact on gaming. And come on...The Tester?? Lol ooook.
I think Nintendo and Sega did a lot to drive the console market, but in the last decade it has to have been Microsoft.
Microsoft
Pros
- Paved the way for Xbox Live and PSN.
- XBLA helped usher in digital distribution and made smaller developers into million sellers.
- Kinect, innovative piece of technology, but it's not great for controlling games.
- Lead the way in introducing multi-media features to consoles.
Cons
- Monitized the subscription service to Xbox Live.
- Played a large role in making DLC common practice. Nice idea but it gets abused by publishers now.
Top 5 Most Anticipated Games:
- Quantum Break
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Destiny
- The Division
- Final Fantasy XV
Personally I can't decide. Each of them brought something great to the table which is why I still love gaming in general.
10 years ago was 2004, so it can't be anybody but Nintendo since all 6th gen consoles were already out at the time hence making the Wii the only console with something actually new with innovation packed into an actual product instead of an evolution like the 360 and PS3. You can't even argue anything else, the thread is not created to be fair TBH. Xbox Live came about in 2002 so the whole online thing doesn't count, cross game chat is also an evolution instead of innovation so that doesn't count, Xbox also already had HDD built in so internal storage doesn't count. Sony didn't do jack shit other than charge their console for 600 dollars because of blu-ray that most people don't even use these days due to online streaming so it's not big enough to count against motion control, bigger disc based storage is an evolution too so that doesn't count.
This thread is balls and is greatly in Nintendo's favor.

S.T.A.G.E. said:
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which they all truly fail at if you read my other post.
All three of those just brought previous Tech to consoles. Or in nintendo's case, copy something that was done 20 years ago on their very own console.
All everyone did was popularize and improve previously invented things.