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Dark Chaos on 12 April 2009
pollolealps3 said:
baaahh who cares we enjoy of our trophies and no i didnt know that MS got the idea first but come on! ... when MS knew that ps3 was going to have blu ray they auttomatically made that HDDVD thing that didnt work too much...
and i think the trophies are having more succes on the PS3 than on the X360... dont do they?

LOL.

Not even close. Considering many popular games on the PS3 dont have trophies and achievements are easier to compare. Trophies dont come close

 



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Jeronimo66 on 12 April 2009

Dark Chaos

Well SONY did bring things into this gen:

First Console to remove B/C
First console to have mandatory installs
First console to replace their controller by adding rumble(not sure about this one)
Also the heaviest console ever
First console to back out of a region(Korea)

You're hilarious man.



heruamon on 13 April 2009

When others copy M$, it's okay, because they are fighting the big monster, but when M$ copies others, it's M$ robbing people...just the way things go...Kinda like Apple getting credit for "creating" the mouse...or the "wastebasket"...



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Jeronimo66 on 13 April 2009
heruamon said:
When others copy M$, it's okay, because they are fighting the big monster, but when M$ copies others, it's M$ robbing people...just the way things go...Kinda like Apple getting credit for "creating" the mouse...or the "wastebasket"...

 

Apple creating the wastebasket LOL

 



C8 on 13 April 2009
Onyxmeth said:
Jeronimo66 said:

When Microsoft introduced the NEW XBOX EXPERIENCE, all over the internet people SCREAMED COPY CAT, people accused Microsoft of  copying Nintendos' Avatar system, Sonys' XMB interface, and even Apples' Cover Flow Interface, feel free to reply on who else people accused Microsoft of copying with the NEW XBOX EXPERIENCE.

Now I am not here to argue wether Microsoft copied or not, but just to say this, When Sony first anounced that PS3 was getting an achievement system I didn't take much notice to it because It wasn't anything the Xbox 360 didn't already offer, but lately I have noticed that the tropy system on the PS3 is getting more and more popular, people talking about how much trophies they are getting, having their trophies in their sigs and so on, now I am not getting upset because of all this, my thing is where is the backlash that, Sony COPIED Microsoft? I have my own thoughts on why? but I just want to see what you guys have to say.

All I have to say to all you Playstation Fans is this, whenever you get the satisfaction of a trophy just remember who came up with the idea first.

Microsoft is innovativing in the videogame industry and not enough people is giving Microsoft credit with their mouth, just with their Wallets, Why is that?

Please leave your comments.

Thank You.

It's a two way road. There is resistance from 360 fans also about the things Microsoft has copied. I'm sure I could pull up examples of people bashing the PS3's XMB in favor of the Blades and then turning around and praising the NXE. It would be hard to find somebody on this site that hasn't been hypocritical at one point or another. I'm sure I'm guilty of hypocritical myself if I search my posts enough.

 

NXE is, in many ways, the Vista MCE UI designs moved to a console.  It doesn't resemble XMB nearly as much as it resembles the Vista MCE product that MS shipped before the PS3 shipped.

 



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DiplomaticImmunity on 13 April 2009

just look @ the 360 controller they stole the idea from sony



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C8 on 13 April 2009
shio said:
Onyxmeth said:
shio said:
"achievements" have existed on games since the dawn of time, way before Microsoft started using them, so I can't even see your argument.

How many games had unlockable achievements before Microsoft started this? A handful maybe? How many platforms had mandatory achievements that connected the achievements of all games through a central system? The only three systems I know of in existence are the achievements system on 360, the trohy system on PS3, and the achievement system on Steam. I know PS3 came last(hehe...that sounded dirty). When did Steam do theirs?

 

So you agree that Microsoft didn't invent achievements then?

Microsoft did invent the concent of platform-wide achievements.  I challenge you to name a console or PC distribution platform like Steam (which got achievements over 2 years after the 360 shipped with that feature) that did it earlier.  Trophies are a copy of Achievements, not a copy of "the general idea of unlockables" - PS3 games already had unlockables like games have had for years, what they did not have was a system-wide recognition system visible to you and your friends - which Xbox did - and they copied.  So what, no one's saying it was a bad idea.

 



Dark Chaos on 13 April 2009
DiplomaticImmunity said:
just look @ the 360 controller they stole the idea from sony

and made it much better rather than SONY's attempts at copying XBL and trophies

 Plus SONY wasnt the first to make a controller



AliveFE on 13 April 2009

well, ratchet and clank had skill points.



 

heruamon on 13 April 2009

Wait...XBL wasn't the first of achievements....lol...that's a new one...lol!



"...You can't kill ideas with a sword, and you can't sink belief structures with a broadside. You defeat them by making them change..."

- From By Schism Rent Asunder