No they didn't. Atari 2600 was online. Famicom was Online. Xband made Genesis and SNES online and even could play Street Fighter II online with SNES and Genesis and Capcom and other publishers supported it. Nintendo and SEGA even had DLC in the 80's and 90's. With Stuff like Skies of Arcadia,BS Zelda Mario Paint N64 and some Famicom Disc games had it. Like Excitebike

Who cares, MS popularized it.

stopped reading after "Playstation created the industry"

TBH Gaming didnt suddenly appeal to mature audiences it started to appeal to 13 year olds and to people that do things not because they like it but because they want to be cool by doing something. it still does. Guess who all the mainstream gamers are.

Welcome to literally 76% of those who posted in this thread and 83% of those who missed the point. 

the tl:dr is Wii U's problem is mainly third party support, rather then simply a matter of hardware, I purport that 3rd party became more important over time compared to what Nintendo dealt with in Pre-5th gen. The introduction of Sony, a non-game developer making a console, 3rd parties became more important, and an industry where 3rd parties are important better supports PlayStation and Xbox. The performance of the Wii and Handhelds shows that if Nintendo addresses a different type of market from the traditional home console market where 3rd parties are more important, it will sell well. The 64 and GC show that as well. The strategy with the Wii U of trying to bridge the gap, isn't working, and this is most likely why as well.

That's right ignore the real history and only use what suits your strawman. I lived in all these eras and yours began with PS2 so stop now.

You specifically said SEGA introduced it and I have you a real history lesson. You got mad you were wrong.

I didn't say I was right, but if it makes you happy I will tell you that I was wrong.

I , Dr. Henry_Killinger, was wrong about Sega introducing online networking.

I don't remember getting mad, and I'm pretty sure its pretty irrelevant to the conclusion I came up with in the analysis and just reposted recently.

the thread title, is completely false and here is why. after the video game crash in the very early 80's, which company single handely saved the video game industry . oh yea, it was nintendo. yes the playstation brand moved the industry forward at a quicker pace, and xbox changed it again, when it entered the industry. but for anyone to say the playstation brand created the industry , is completely talking out of their a$$ , pure and simple . also doesnt know the facts of the video game industry.

Sony def did create the industry we know today. Super Nintendo and Sega never came close to selling 100 million units. Games were for mainly for little kids but now that's changed. Nintendo should go 3rd party or come rely mobile. The wii fad is over. Only Nintendo fans buy Nintendo consoles. Sony saved gaming and MS has helped take things to a new level. If the industry was still sega and Nintendo I don't think gaming would be what it is today

MS neither popularized it nor invented it, they allowed a better form of dlc on consoles by selling a console with local storage, but all in all these are only expansion packs, just like on PC, which has existed for quite a while.

You know what all these Sega, Atari, Famicon, Xband comments make me think.

That right there is innovation in consoles, and it doesn't count for shit. MS put an HDD in the box and gave it networking, and now its become an industry standard. They perfected it, for lack of a better term, enough so that it became standard in the industry.

Clearly, perfection > innovation, in that case and in general.