That's just a cheap way of trying to take credit from someone. Sure, if Stanley Kubrick hadn't created 2001 and brought a new light on Science Fiction cinema someone else would have, but Kubrick still did it.
OK, you can say that, and i have to agree with you that it does give to notion that i´m trying to take away Sony merit, but that´s not the case.
The reason why i say that another console would have make that is because that mindset already existed...on the PC, all it took was to put it into consoles.
They didn't just bring the PC mindset to console gaming, though. They took the games out of the kids and nerd/geek rooms exclusively and brought it into mainstream soceity. Way more then you're making out that they did. You can try to explain it away by saying someone would have done it eventually, but you can explain away basically any accomplishment for anyone that way.
Sure, and like i say, the Playstation was very important on a business perspective, but, imo, in a gaming one....not so much, because they never brought anything new to the table, more even this gen when all they do is make the same thing that the other guy did (PSN-Live, Sixaxis-motion control, PSN Games-XBLA, Trophies-achievements,...).
And before you say they have great games, yes, they do, but that´s not what i´m talking about.
In 3 generations, this is the first one were they have any real competition, and they don´t have the edge they had anymore, because of the reasons i stated above.
Though, as far as MG goes, Kojima himself said the series was basically dead until the PS1 came around. So that's one franchise that probably wouldn't have made it.
Ok, i give you that one.
But that´s the same thing as the blu-ray.
It´s logical that many developers (and i´m not talking about Kojima now), wanted to make games for CD, has it had much more capacity than cartridge.
Ok, I think I get what you're saying with your analogy, but this one is fairly inaccurate. The US did have competition after WWII, pretty significant competition, in fact, with the Soviet Union.
No, it´s not.
I forgot about the Soviet Union, but because we are talking about gaming, it´s not fairly inaccurate.
To **** as far as I'm concerned with all this motion stuff
And if my guess is right in any way, it might go even way down the crapper as far as you might be concerned.
My call is that, after the MS full body motion (if that works as good as it sounds), the next step is 3D gaming.
During that same period, 4D (
touch leather,
feel the weight of a gun in your hands,
smell the napalm,
taste the salt water, ...) might appear (it´s been worked for a very long time now).
Also, at that same time, there will the wanting to make 3D without the glasses (don´t know if that´s possible).
If all that goes like i say, and because the MS full body motion will be a half-virtual reality kind of thing, there will be a "total" Virtual Reality.
If 3D without glasses ever work, holograms are just a little step further (basically, that´s what an hologram is).
Next step is to blend the hologram with 4D (to touch and interact with the hologram) and, if that´s possible, say welcome to the holodeck.
