Sony and MS did not innovate video gaming this gen. All they did was up the graphics and network nothing new.

Nintendo did innovate.

In fact MSSony were afraid to innovate for fear of failure. 

First off, thanks to disruption, both will leave the market soon.

Second, I would like to see Microsoft and Sony leave. I have learned their machines aren't consoles, but computers. They don't feel like consoles. Consoles also had something unique to them. There was something special, and always stuff you couldn't get elsewhere (like the Wii remote today). Sony and Microsoft release multimedia machines under the name of a videogame console. But it isn't.

I consider blu ray and HD innovations. and i consider the PS3's cells porcessor innovative. i think some games have been innovative, like heavy rain, or alan wake, bayonetta, god of war 3, etc, stuff that couldnt be done before.

lol..your a very funny guy...

Toading as alway's I see nothing has changed...with you

Hell even the Wii is a Computer...there is no such thing as the

"only a game console any more"

that even applies to the Wii.

the strictly Just a Game console is no more.

They do not exist anymore,That even applies to Nintendo, sorry but that is just the truth, Nintendo has Netflix..when did game consoles as you say ever had a service like Netflix until this generation.?

got new's for you the strictly game console is DEAD.

I will be very happy to see you and your kind disappointed.

A203D, although I think mhsillen opinion to be very extreme, there is some truth in it. Sony and Microsoft just brought our old pal, PC gaming, to consoles. Online playing and high resolution graphics became very affordable and that was really good, but not innovative. Not all features should be innovative and many new concepts need several rounds of improvement before being any good. Also, blu-ray players and the cell processor are, perhaps, technical innovations but not in the field of gaming, where game experience, and not hardware components matter.

Your choice of games could also be better. I didn't liked Heavy Rain, but I concede it was innovative. However, Alan Wake, Bayonetta, and God of War 3 were just more of the same, no matter how good they were.

Finally, concerning mhsillen last argument, he is right on general terms. Any big company will be afraid of investing much money in untried concepts, especially when the development costs went as high as they did in the gaming industry. In the other hand, great companies also know they have to risk from time to time to get new customers. That was what Nintendo did this generation. They did a great bet in motion controls and accessibility and they are now getting their deserved share. Microsoft is usually very conservative but Sony did some pretty interesting experiments, such as Heavy Rain.

The PS3 and 360 offer nothing that a PC can't do. In fact, their big triumphs are their processing power. Nintendo creates systems that plahys games. This is why they can create the rumble pack and the Wii Remote and Sony can only copy them. No one can even copy the D-Pad as well as Nintendo (Sega was the closest). The Gamecube was even a console because you could hook up new devices to it. The Genesis was one two because you had the 32X and the lock-on cartriage.

Microsoft and Sony are just computer makers. If you put two different names on the boxes, they would feel the same.

LooooL, my stomach hurts because I laughed too much. Never read such an hilarious Nintendo biased post xDDD.

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I'll make it short. No one will/should leave the videogame business, simply because competition is important. It's what brings us great games.

o'l my freakin god, your Diatribe is getting very thick right now, lay off that cool aid your drinking because right now your eyeball's are swimming in it...lol

Let's see, Microsoft and Sony both offered Netflix on their system, but what did Nintendo now also offer?

ol that's right Netflix, but Nintendo is not copying the other two, but it's only a slight against anyone else but Nintendo..please grow up.

does it freakin matter what or who is percieved copy's who what when how or why...lol

Sony an Microsoft system's are made to make Money just like Nintendo there there because there is a market there to make money from., and if anything before Nintendo even made it's first game system, it was PC computing system's that made the idea of a viable computing system to be made, software created at university's and govt. computer system's and their Hobby, that's right Hobby basic software code that created the very foundation of the game console IDEA. So before you slam 

"Microsoft and Sony are just computer makers".

just Computer maker's without them computer maker's if you will there would be no Game console.

No i am not saying Nintendo is not innovative, nor am i taking away from what they have brought to the industry, which is quite a bit. But on the same token I do not slam the core foundation that Game console's were infact built on which you sadly are doing and that just show's how imature your being right now so please for the love of god grow up.

This would kick ass! The only downside would be that this would likely make Nintendo jump ship. They would not be able to compete against the might of Microsoft/Sony first Party game on top of that likely all major third party games would be on the system. This would leave Nintendo with only the hardest of the hardcore Nintendo fans.

I do think that Sony and Microsoft together would be able to make the best console ever seen though. 100 million sales overtime would be a piece of cake for that system.