Which game? :O

The delusion is strong in this thread. For those of us who were actually around in the early 90's, everyone knew the only reason the PS1 beat out the N64 was due to nintendo stupidly choosing cartidge. The industry was heading towards catering to older gamers with mature content as games like Doom, Mortal Kombat,etc proved this. Sony basically got bullshit lucky with both Nintendo and Sega making bad choices in hardware design which led to the vast majority of 3rd party jumping ship. They neither innovated nor created this current market. 

Let u not forget who brought the FPS genre into the spotlight on consoles

I will have to agree with the OP. Sony didnt start or pioneer console gaming as it is, but the created the console gaming industry as we know it today.They didnt just make a mainstream console marketed towards all ages, they also opened th eflood gates for third parties. Sony kinda showed how big and diverse the industry could be when not being driven by a platform that basically builds a console to sell its own games (nintendo). It may even be safe to assume that if not for nintendo's continuous successes in the handheld space they could very well have gone down the same path as sega.

MS did bring home the connected and service based console. For better or for worse and in addition to that their core as a OS company showed in their consoles. Particularly with the 360. I am afraid to think of what consoles would be today feature and network wise if MS never got into the industry.

If nintendo should be credited for anything, I think it should be the games and interface design. Nintendo pretty much created the  games blueprint. And lets not forget, they also broke ground on innovations like having shoulder buttons, analouge sticks, vibration in controllers, motion gaming (and i am not even talking about the wii here I am talking about the NES and that zapper gun)...etc

So guess we can say Nintendo drew out the plans and laid the foundation, sony built the buildingand opened its doors to the world and then MS hooked up a telephone to the building.

I didnt knew "Magnavox Odyssey" was a nintendo product.

Rescuing a princess who gets kidnapped on a regular basis.

Yea but them with atari also distroyed it leaving Nintendo to clean up the mess they created... Here, watch this, maybe you will learn something but u probably won't even watch it tbh

You're saying Sony invented the gaming industry then painting anyone outside the parts Sony does well in as outside the mainstream.  The Wii doesn't count because those people aren't gamers despite the fact that they bought game.  Handhelds don't count because they don't include Microsoft, although that didn't seem to matter when we were discussing the PS1 gen.  So yeah, just cutting out the parts they didn't do well in.

Beyond the issue of bias, cutting out the PC, handheld, and mobile sectors completely ruins any claim of a complete analysis.  You can't pretend home consoles exist in a vacuum and that arcades, PCs, handhelds, and even mobile gaming didn't effect them. 

The point is that Nintendo can succeed if they tap into and lock onto an untapped market, or change the one we currently have back to its favor. However, it doesn't have the power, influence, or relevance currently to do the former.

In regards to PS vs Xbox, which ever one of them draws on the greater portion of the audience will win, simple as that.

You know there is a big difference between "creating an industry" and "improving an industry"? Nintendo didnt "created" it. They rescued. Thats all. Nothing more.

Where did I mention the FPS genre?