Name one innovative idea Sony came up with this gen.

Compare to MS or Nintendo... Sony has copied achievements, has jumped on the generic/soldier/FPS genre with Resistance and KZ2, basically did their own Wii mote knockoff, comming out with their own version of mario kart. I would say LBP is innovative but level editors in games has been done before. I primarily use my PS3 as a Blu-ray player which I don't see as an innovation.

Can swap out the hard drive for any off the shelf one. I dont remember any other consoles allowing that. Blue tooth too I guess.

Most console 'innovations' are either taken from earlier consoles, or PC gaming.

I wouldn't be holding Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo up too highly as paragons of invention.

Compare to MS or Nintendo... Sony has copied achievements, has jumped on the generic/soldier/FPS genre with Resistance and KZ2, basically did their own Wii mote knockoff, comming out with their own version of mario kart. I would say LBP is innovative but level editors in games has been done before. I primarily use my PS3 as a Blu-ray player which I don't see as an innovation.

fourseamer4

I think you should have just called this thread "MS invented gaming"

Who cares if something is innovative? Seriously....

I think you should have just called this thread "MS invented gaming"

emorainbo

Neither company innovated anything. They simply took existing ideas, and implemented them in a different way that had been done before.navyguy21

How about a platform that is extremely friendly to many differnet formats of media?

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I think you should have just called this thread "MS invented gaming"

savetehhaloz

Neither company innovated anything. They simply took existing ideas, and implemented them in a different way that had been done before.navyguy21

The "Play. Create. Share." concept applied to consoles is pretty cool. Usually, that level of user creation and distribution was reserved for PC games.

Nintendo's the only company that has come up with anything innovative this generation. -_-;;

For the life of me, when exactly did Nintendo announce the wii mote? Think I watch a vid today with the creater of the eyetoy using the motion glow controller or early stages of that idea back in like 2000 atleast no later than 2004.

Also wasn't there racing games prior to mario cart?

Ms upgraded to a more fancy XMB

MS stole the wii tars

And the point of this thread was what again?

TC welcome to the game industries where pretty nothing is original especially on the home console front.

I think you should have just called this thread "MS invented gaming"

emorainbo

WRONG, LIES, everyone knows Cliffy B created gaming

may be not much in hardware, but the quality of their games can't be matched.....sorry pal but that quality speaking isn't applied for either MS or nintindo.

may be xmb.

Nintendo's the only company that has come up with anything innovative this generation. -_-;;

Shad0ki11

Bluray.

motion sensing by using EYe Toy. name me one thing that MS has copied from sony this gen? besides natal idea.

Sixaxis is pretty neat - motion control built into a conventional controller. Neat because it doesn't throw out decades of ergonomic design like the Wiimote does, and rather works motion controls into traditional control schemes. While it is neat and innovative (though I stand to be corrected - was this done before?), it was *completely* underused... And I daresay, botched.

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Nintendo's the only company that has come up with anything innovative this generation. -_-;;

jasonharris48

Well, the extensive use of motion sensing was something I hadn't seen before this generation came about in the video game industry (console-wise).

Built-in WiFi

Built-in WiFi

Gxgear

um idk.but very few companies are truely innovative.i personally think apples been most. innovative to company to date.even in gaming with the Iphone

Built-in WiFi

Gxgear

Little Big Planet

Console web browser

Sixaxis

The ability to install an alternate operating system effectively turning your gaming console into a computer. How about that?

Compare to MS or Nintendo... Sony has copied achievements, has jumped on the generic/soldier/FPS genre with Resistance and KZ2, basically did their own Wii mote knockoff, comming out with their own version of mario kart. I would say LBP is innovative but level editors in games has been done before. I primarily use my PS3 as a Blu-ray player which I don't see as an innovation.

fourseamer4

MS/Sony fanboys are copying eachother's "copycat" threads.

Console web browser

Gxgear

You're kidding, right?

The ability to install an alternate operating system effectively turning your gaming console into a computer. How about that?

Mr_Ditters

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Console web browser

Tragic_Kingdom7

You're kidding, right?

I'm bored.

Once again no one has said when Nintendo first announced the wii mote? Since everyone says sony copied nintendo I'm sure there is a link to nintendo announcing the wii mote like in 1999 or 2000 or something, just link me to it please.

Give me on innovative idea MS came up with.Solid_Max13

Square game cases

PS Home

[QUOTE="Solid_Max13"]Give me on innovative idea MS came up with.Shafftehr

User Generated Content - they have LBP on their platform - its created some-what of a trend, so I think.Haziqonfire