Who's made the biggest contributions to gaming thus far?

[NZA]

nintendo, of course

 

[winb83]

Microsoft: The first to properly introduce online gaming into consoles.

Microsoft pretty much defined the modern game console as we know it today. People here will try to downlpay what they've done but it was their vision that pushed consoles to the next level. I'm sure we all remember how functional the PS2's OS was. Microsoft comes out with Xbox Live on the Xbox and the 360 dashboard with downloadable applications and we all see how the PS3's console OS was. It was a total reaction to the competition. They had little to no interest in doing those things before someone else did them first.

 

[hex]

In an era where 2d games where still poppin hard, and for the best 3d games you went to the arcade.


SS>>>psx when it came to 2d and psx>>.SS when it came to 3d.

2D games wasn't popping hard when Saturn dropped breh. Unless you mean shyt like "Street Fighter: Alpha". The biggest selling/most popular titles were all 3D.

And by the time the 32-bit consoles dropped arcades were being phased out.

I can't even say "SS>>>PS" when it comes to 2D because arguably the defining 32-bit 2D game of that era, "Symphony Of The Night", actually ran worse on the Saturn.

The Saturn was just a poor console. It was designed like shyt. It had two processors that were virtually impossible to work in tandem. Even in-house developers like Yu Suzuki openly criticized it.

And for the record I had a Saturn before a PS. It had some classic titles. But it failed because it wasn't a good console. I eventually traded it in for a PS.

Fred.

 

[Liquid]

Nintendo is obviously #1, but you guys are really letting that hate for Microsoft get to your head. DirectX has been huge for gaming, even with how people like to shyt on it in favor of opengl.

IMO Microsoft is second because on top of the whole pc side, they also have made vast improvements in the console space when it comes to online gaming and digital distribution. Yeah they had some hardware fukkups and the Mattrick fiasco, but I don't think we will be where we are right now in console gaming without Microsoft. Maybe a full gen behind in terms of functionality tbh.