Best Innovations Ever?

For me, it is:

NES: Popularized Gaming, Revived Industry

N64: Analog Control Sticks

PS1: Disc-Based Media

XBox: XBox Live forever changes online play, making it a major factor on purchase decisions.

Wii: Motion Controlled, expands userbase

PC?

Doom

PS3-Blu-Ray, Great Story on MGS4

Call Of Duty- Multiplayer Style FPS

easily either smb, GTA3 or street fighter 2

tetris also

For me, it is:

NES: Popularized Gaming, Revived Industry

N64: Analog Control Sticks

PS1: Disc-Based Media

XBox: XBox Live forever changes online play, making it a major factor on purchase decisions.

Wii: Motion Controlled, expands userbase

Wikipedian

I have a few gripes with your innovations.

N64: Analog Control Sticks (consoles had an anlog controls long before the nintendo 64, ie. Atari 5200

XBox: XBox Live forever changes online play, making it a major factor on purchase decisions. (Now Wii would not be Number 1 right now if that were true, dont get me wrong I love services like xbox live and psn.)

I agree with the list TC.Youre absolutely right.

Whatever the first console was with a dedicated control seperate from the console.

-The Legend of Zelda, the first time a system was doing something the arcades couldnt do and more

-Street Fighter 2, pretty much every fighter in the book is based off of that thing

-Sega CD, disc based media :p

- Dreamcasts pressure sensitive triggers + built in modem ready to go online

- ps2s DVD player.

The printing press. Brought print media to the masses.cainetao11

The printing press would be kind of useless without written language...

[QUOTE="cainetao11"]The printing press. Brought print media to the masses.MetroidPrimePwn

The printing press would be kind of useless without written language...

[QUOTE="cainetao11"]The printing press. Brought print media to the masses.MetroidPrimePwn

The printing press would be kind of useless without written language...

[QUOTE="MetroidPrimePwn"]

[QUOTE="cainetao11"]The printing press. Brought print media to the masses.ultima-flare

The printing press would be kind of useless without written language...

PS3-Blu-Ray, Great Story on MGS4

Call Of Duty- Multiplayer Style FPS

EliteCouncilor

Blue ray? What does that have to do with gaming?

Online multiplayer FPS was actually pioneered by Doom. Counterstrike had hundreds of thousands of online players in 1999, a full four years before Call of Duty was released.

PS3-Blu-Ray, Great Story on MGS4

Call Of Duty- Multiplayer Style FPS

EliteCouncilor

[QUOTE="EliteCouncilor"]

PS3-Blu-Ray, Great Story on MGS4

Call Of Duty- Multiplayer Style FPS

dkrustyklown

Blue ray? What does that have to do with gaming?

Online multiplayer FPS was actually pioneered by Doom. Counterstrike had hundreds of thousands of online players in 1999, a full four years before Call of Duty was released.

Scribblenauts.

easily either smb, GTA3 or street fighter 2

tetris also

I'll go with sliced bread.

agreed

the ZX spectrum-first introduced the world to the worlds best developers Rare. (then known as Ashby games.