Seriously, this copying accusation bs on system wars is hilarious. One fanboy accuses competition of copying their favorite company and so fanboy B has to retrace the origin of said technology(regardless of how it was originally applied) to try and disprove it. The stupid part is that if the competition doesn't copy then they are accused of being behind the times. vashkey
But when it comes to Nintendo and Sony it is so obvious that no one but the most fanatical cows can see what has been going on for years.
Nintendo is the only real innovator in the business and have introduced many of the things that we take for granted today.
When Sony came into the business, their controller for Playstation was pretty much a straight copy of the SNES controller, just adding two extra shoulder buttons and changing the buttons and d-pad enough to not get sued.
What Sony did introduce however was CD and while it had the advantage of being cheap and able to store alot of data it also made games have very long load times something that was unheard of before, you actually had to sit and wait for the game/level to start.
That's why we are stuck with slow optical media today, not because Sony really wanted to give game developers more space to work with, but because they wanted to add CD-players to peoples homes to support the new format Compact Disc.
The same happened later with PS2 and DVD.
Then Nintendo introduced analog stick and rumble, Sony took those ideas and tacked it on their existing controller.
With GameCube there wasn't anything major introduced by Nintendo, and as a result, not much changed in the other camps either, it was just more power than last generation.
Then the Wii arrived with it's revolutionary controlls, we all know what happened then, Sony just had to tag along and tacked some motion controlls onto their controller... and the story goes on.
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