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Sony- It Only Does What Someone Else Innovates

We have seen much from Sony over the past 16 years that has come to revolutionize gaming. It is true that they expanded the industry from a kids' toy market to include a more sophisticated adult market. Many will give them credit for innovation, but has the innovation actually come from Sony? Were the ideas theirs? Or could it be that these ideas, one by one, have come from other companies, and Sony merely copies and improves them? "Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you!" In 1993 the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer was introduced to the public. The philosophy behind the machine was simple: children who had grown up with NES , Genesis, and Super NES were now young adults and were ready to "graduate" to a more sophisticated system that had more mature content. 3D graphics, Dolby stereo sound, more intense action. "If you build it they will come." Oddly enough Sony also had this same scheme with the Playstation . Sony rel...