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cAPSLOCK on 28 July 2008

Nintendo gave us:
Revolutionary control: Analog stick, d-pad, motion control, rumble. Basically anything home console related with controllers Nintendo has been blazing the path. Sure people whine about motion control now, but people whined about the analog stick, rumble was at first considered "extra, waste of money."

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An almost 25 year backlog of great games. Sure some people may complain about the aesthetics at this point but the games are enjoyable.

Microsoft gave us:
What Nintendo has done on the console side, MS gave us on the PC side. Sure computer parts vary wildly, but Windows at least created some common ground which facilitated PC domination of the late 90s.

They brought all these PC things to the home console with the XboX--most notably online play.

Sony gave us:
Nothing new, but they innovated from other creations incredibly well and picked up the torch when Nintendo failed with the 64 and Cube. They kept the home console light burning. Imagine the 2 previous generations without the PS1 and PS2 and from the looks of it console gaming would have remained a niche.



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Outcast on 28 July 2008
kowenicki said:
xbox and xbox 360... brought online gaming to consoles (in a coherent and complete way) for the first time. You can thank them for all the multiplayer goodness we now have. Before that the developers didnt think the home console market had an appetite for online gaming.

Sega says no.

 



amp316 on 28 July 2008
Outcast said:
kowenicki said:
xbox and xbox 360... brought online gaming to consoles (in a coherent and complete way) for the first time. You can thank them for all the multiplayer goodness we now have. Before that the developers didnt think the home console market had an appetite for online gaming.

Sega says no.

 


Sega would be right. The Sega channel was out way before it's time. This is another example of Microsoft "innovation".



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TWRoO on 28 July 2008
amp316 said:
Outcast said:
kowenicki said:
xbox and xbox 360... brought online gaming to consoles (in a coherent and complete way) for the first time. You can thank them for all the multiplayer goodness we now have. Before that the developers didnt think the home console market had an appetite for online gaming.

Sega says no.

 

Sega would be right. The Sega channel was out way before it's time. This is another example of Microsoft "innovation".

*cough* Satellaview on the NES (or was it SNES?)

 



amp316 on 28 July 2008

What exactly did Satellaview do? Refresh my memory.



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dib8rman on 28 July 2008

I remember PSO...

Also the Sega channel wasn't out before it's time, Sega just didn't give it the kind of support needed to make it a success. Still they did it first...



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Onimusha12 on 28 July 2008

Nintendo
- Saved Gaming from obscurity in early 80s
- Made nearly every innovation in videogaming to date
- Is the only viable future solution for gaming right now.

Sony
- Salvaged an industry that had stagnated in the late 90s

Microsoft
- Given hardcore non-gamers a reason to game again.



megaman79 on 28 July 2008

If i ever met Shigeru Miyamoto i would offer him my wife. Does that help explain the level of gratitude i bestow on this creator.



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vaio on 28 July 2008

The basic idea of this thread is right and we should be thankful to all of them for various reasons but the facts that you present are very sony biased.



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souixan on 28 July 2008

It should also be noted that nintendo had online features available on the NES and then a satelite linkup on the super famicom and I believe the N64DD had something to the effect.

none were to the effect of what we see today but you could attribute downloadable content to Nintendo as there were some downloadable games for the Satellaview on the super famicom. Mostly from Nintendo but some were from third parties and that service went on from 1995 until 2000 I believe.

The N64 had the RANDnet service as well. None of these saw the light of day outside of Japan however.