When Consoles Lose, Everyone Wins

Ground Glass writes "Does the traditional knowledge that 'history is written by the winners' hold true with consoles? Perhaps, but there's more to it than that. Sometimes, systems that fail do so because their most salient concept was one no one was ready for - these provide future 'innovations'. Sometimes their loudest message was one only a niche group would ever want to listen to - they provide much needed perspective. In an early medium, the failures are the ones questioning what a game should be. It's no wonder the winners keep writing their ideas back in."

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A not-so-subtle dig against the Wii and PS3

[SuperKendall]

Which is the only console that can win the next generation console wars? The console that contains no next generation components, just tried and true parts beefed up from the last generation!

I wonder which console THAT could be...

In fact the 360 is so tried and true they even removed a standard component from the last generation (the hard drive), just to be sure they were totally tried and true.